All In The Family Today: MAGA Archie and Woke Edith
This may be for Gen X and older. Those of us who remember this great American TV show from the 1970's. If you haven't seen it before, look it up, you won't be disappointed.
If Archie and Edith Bunker were alive today they'd be constantly fighting. Archie would be wearing a red MAGA hat and be out on bond for his role in the January 6th insurrection. He would wake up every morning and read the latest Q Anon drops and spend the rest of the day driving around as a professional driver while listening to right-wing podcasts before returning home to a night of Newsmax.
Edith would eat organic, be a practitioner of hot yoga, and a daily reader of the Holy Scriptures of her religion (Kendi, DiAngelo, and Coates). Instead of being busy at home all day she'd be out protesting and canvassing. Despite living in an area with more than a million Puerto Ricans, AOC is the only boricua she knows by name, and therefore is her go to expert. Edith has now made herself an expert on the criminal justice system, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, economics, and film reviewing after listening to her favorite Brooklyn podcasters and reading the books the purple-haired bookseller at an Astoria indie bookstore recommends.
Gloria would hate both of her parents. Her fascist dad and her liberal mom. She is a daily consumer of RT, Sputnik and other Russian outlets and supports the real international coalition of humanitarians fighting against the oppressive world order (Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Bashar al-Assad, Hamas, Hezbollah, and a random terrorist organization in Myanmar she read about and found cool).
Mike would be a bestselling author lambasting the evils of late stage capitalism and have his own successful social media platforms and be a tenured professor at Columbia. However, he would seldom be home, as he finds his Manhattan condo overlooking Central Park too claustrophobic, and can be found more at his Martha's Vineyard, Miami, and Cannes properties where he can lament the excesses of the international elite and ruling class.
On a recent swing through New York, coordinating with the arrival of his favorite dominatrix from Montreal, Mike, Gloria, and Edith enjoy a lovely day walking around Manhattan and tearing down photos of kidnapped Israeli children.