I don’t really like to talk about politics, but I just read an article about how Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore was quoted stating something about how he believes that the last time America was great, slavery was still in existence. The same Roy Moore who has also been in the crosshairs recently for alleged sexual misconduct with underage girls.
However, this is also the same Roy Moore, whom in spite of these discouraging associations, is not only not out of the running for the senate seat, but statistically neck-and-neck in the race with Democrat Doug Jones.
All I can really deduce from this absurd notion is that red state Alabama’s conservative voters are so against a Democrat gaining some measure of power, that they’d knowingly and willingly continue to vote for and support a pretty known sex offender and seeming racist Republican on their own volition.
This isn’t so much a discussion about politics as much as it is revisiting the frequent topic these days of where human values have gone, really.
So yes, the headline is a serious question: what would the state of Alabama be reduced to if college football were removed from the equation? As fanatically blind and brainless as the voters are in the state, there’s no shortage of blind loyalty and prestige that the success of college football brings to the state. But if the University of Alabama and Auburn University either bottomed out permanently, or ceased to exist, what would the state of Alabama really have left?
I mean, from the surface level, if college football were removed from Alabama, I’d see nothing but a state full of mostly idiot rednecks who can’t seem to see beyond ideals and lines of thinking passed down to them from generations of other misguided and ignorant bigots.
There’s also a degree of NASA presence in Huntsville which is of moderate importance, I suppose.
There are better beaches in several other gulf states, and there are enough other Dixie states aside from Alabama to fill the void of rednecks and Confederate flags for Alabama to really be of any importance outside of its factory of churning out football players.
But seriously, if college football were removed from the equation, would Alabama really have any sort of individual identity? As far as I’m concerned, Alabama could be merged into Mississippi and Louisiana into one giant state, and nobody would give a shit. As much as I’d hate to admit it, large swaths of Georgia would probably belong merged into it as well, if not for the blue oasis of Atlanta and all its idiosyncrasies and the airport that seem to make it undesirable to the right.
Whatever though; I never really cared much about Alabama before living in Georgia, and I still don’t care about Alabama now that I live next to it. The college football is reliably entertaining, but I still see zero genuine value to come from the state, and to me, it’s really just a place to get real fireworks, and if I get super hardcore into minor league baseball again, a comfortable distance to get to go see some decent competition MiLB.
Otherwise, it’s a wasteland that can be governed over by its pedophiles and/or racists that has zero consequence to my daily living.
