I’m not a fan of this guy, sorry. To me, he’s like a sleek, slick, faintly oily version of the working-class guy even when he says the right thing.
I prefer the real thing. Which is why I talk to the guys who collect the garbage, mow the lawn and plumb my plumbing.
The premise is actually an interesting one, and is related to this short video at PragerU:
The Strange Death of Comedy by Owen Benjamin
The Left, including the media and educational systems have done a very good job of divorcing people from their cultural anchors as Americans in order to be able to promote their corrosive, destructive, and divisive concept of 'multiculturalism'. They have gone out of the way to scrub a common history from their teachings of history and instead present diametrically opposed teachings that do not leave any room for a middle ground to be occupied peacefully by both sides.
So, I do believe...yes, we ARE disconnected from a common history. We are now people living in a land occupied by neighbors whose history is alien to us.
I couldn’t disagree with you more. I was a working class guy, a carpenter, and for my money Mike Rowe is very much the real thing. He just worked harder, and smarter, and took his commonsense work ethic to Hollywood and got himself in front of a camera.
I like Mike Rowe. I like the way he celebrates these jobs and the people who do them, and stresses the importance of hard work and becoming capable at something that really matters.
He also makes the point that an awful lot of people are going to college today for whom it may not actually be the right thing - and coming out with enormous debt - while we don’t have enough good people going into these necessary fields.
A lot of people have come to look down on these jobs; Rowe has done a lot to renew understanding of and respect and value for them.
He used to be an opera singer.
Mike Rowe is an actor. Of course he’s sleek, slick and faintly oily. It comes with the territory.
Yup, there are lots of conservatives who are not paying attention...unfortunately.