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In her entire life, I have seen no evidence that she has EVER said anything as disgusting as Vance does every single time he speaks. In fact, you are hard pressed to criticize her at all. The only thing I have is that she has said she never wants to comment on politics and I just hope that is not because she secretly has bad views but just wants to keep her image despite that. Who knows.
Even if her views didn’t align to mine, the fact that she does not go around espousing it at every turn (just like her faith), is still reason enough to respect the hell out of her. So she could be secretly batshit crazier than Vance, and I’d still respect her.
I mean, if she is secretly a trump supporter I’m pretty sure her reason to keep it a secret would be entirely selfish so I couldn’t agree there. Better than if she shared that view sure but I don’t see it being altruistic. I refuse to think she is a trumper though because if she is, then nothing can be pure in this world.
If she’s actively trying to help educate people, she’s no secret Trump supporter.
I don’t know why I’m getting pushback to a hypothetical that I’ve clearly stated I don’t want to be true and I don’t believe is true. The only reason I even have this as a possible idea is that she keeps her views secret, so it’s not on me either way. It is natural to sometimes be curious about people’s motives even if you think they’re probably a great person.
My theory as someone from Appalachia is that she’s a left leaning centrist trying to bring class consciousness back to the coal mining areas (y’know, where they shot their bosses in literal battles to establish worker unions previously), but she also depends on those local economies to get resources to do this and has to play both sides.
She’s made it her life’s mission to improve the education and literacy rate of the region and has to appear homey and down to earth to the folks living in the south as she doesn’t want to compromise her image. She says things in a vague enough way to not be accused of being a dirty lefty commie (their words, not mine).
I don’t think you deserve pushback, just offering an alternative explanation.
Yup. She wants to help her people and the most effective way of doing it is by educating the kids.
Giving books to children is a super effective way to spend the money. They can educate themselves out of the hole.
It’s actually really subversive. Smart lady. She plays the game quite well. She can’t take an open liberal stance as she would be marginalized, but educating children is difficult to attack.
I have no doubt that she’s a closeted liberal in the south. It’s often how you have to be to survive.
I could easily imagine her as either conservative or liberal or somewhere in between or somewhere outside of that whole spectrum. I can’t imagine that she is a Trumper.
I expect that her reason for not sharing her political beliefs is at least somewhat selfish. She has fans across the political spectrum, different segments of whom would certainly be upset by any political position she espoused. It could even be that she’s concerned about fans being angry and violent depending on what her views actually are.
Regardless, the fact that she doesn’t use her popularity to influence politics makes me respect her all the more. I my opinion, it’s both a smart decision for her, personally, and shows moral character.
I think it might be relevant to add:
Dolly Parton worked her ass off, GOT LUCKY AND ACKNOWLEDGES IT, to get where she is.
That kind of honesty is early always the way with people from regular etc. backgrounds who made it. Probably because they’re surrounded by people who worked just as hard as they did but, through no fault of their own, never stood a chance of making it through bad luck.
But then you’ll get some nepobaby, whos had over a million spent on their education, claiming to be a genius for earning a million in their lives, despite only (at best) breaking even.
Or worse, somone like Elon who was given enough free capital that he didn’t need to spend on loving to keep spread betting until he got lucky acting like it was all down to him alone and no one else could have done what he did.
Impressive, let’s see Jolene’s Appalachia.
It’s gotta be beyond compare.
With her no one could compete.
They say money unmasks people. She’s a saint.
We get the dolly parton books in the mail and they’re great. I read at least one of them every day.
Favorites are “grandpa and Jake” “the rabbit listened” and the most recent one “a book for bear.” The from last month is about sending you octopus to school, but it’s not as popular in our house. It has a lot of factoids about octopi, it’s really for an older audience like 6-8
Dolly Parton likes Taylor Swift while the orange felon hates Taylor Swift.
As a skeptic, I went looking to see if if I could find some fault in her fortune. I found that she genuinely is a good person.
What are the lowest starting and median wages of her employees at Dollywood?
Glassdoor says average pay is $14.90/hr. I don’t know if it is trustworthy or not.
Yeah, at least halfish of her employees are struggling to live. As cheap as the midwest is generally, Pigeon Forge has high property values and high taxes. I know a couple of her employees, they have five people in a shitty two bedroom apartment.
It gets cheaper further away, but then you have commute in the abysmal traffic… so pick your poison.
He gets Appalachia totally wrong anyway. I’ve started to wonder if he ever left his grandparents’ home while he was there.
Yeah, we love Dolly, but kind of a Moot Point when Dolly is intentionally Apolitical and not running for any form of office…?
I’m OOTL here. Is Dolly running for VP?
