Answer: Yes, the Browncoats were totally based on the losing side in the American Civil War.
An unfortunate source for memes in a topic about a presidential candidate with problems reaching … certain demographics.
No, not really. It just took me a while to type out my answer (above) on my phone. If anything, tl;dr, it’s about the Haves in power vs. The Have Nots among the average folk. Which is a much more appropriate metaphor for this primary. 
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You mean like the War of Northern Aggression.
No. Not at all. It’s a space western. If you equate cowboys with southerners though ya’ll might want to rethink. 
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Hey folks, I fear we’re drifting pretty far off-topic here…
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Aren’t we supposed to just fall in line behind Hillary now though? It’s all over right? 
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You have to get behind her to kick her in the arse.
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Believe me, many of us are going down kicking if we go down at all.
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Many classic Westerns have a civil war theme. The former civil war soldier turned drifter or bandit or out for revenge is a pretty regular feature.
Whedon loosely based Firefly on Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels, which is a Civil War novel (but not a Western).
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I’ve read that graphic novel a few times, and I didn’t get the impression that he was an Operative. From what I remember, it was shown in reverse-chronological order, starting with him dying on Haven, then his time on Serenity, then his time spent becoming a Shepherd, then him being thrown out of the Alliance military after making a huge tactical blunder, then showing that he was a Browncoat double-agent the whole time, then showing that he was just a poor troubled kid who got pulled into a rebellion he didn’t fully understand at the time.
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Fair enough. I’m going to stick with my cultural roots though, and go full cowboy on your ass. I do understand the complexity of Whedon’s Universe and all it entails.
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Ok, my bad. 
I guess I need to re-read that too, it’s been too long. Which won’t be a bad thing at all. 
So . . . with Drumpf presumed to take the GOP nomination, doesn’t Sanders have an opportunity to negotiate the Dem platform for the populist, working-and-caring-for-dependents left?
As long as the dem socialists are not pushing for economic changes that are less consensus-building then the unpredictable chaos from the presumptive GOP nominee, Sanders’ economic policies for working households are now indisputably the most popular with the most voters.
Populists and libertarians who are not racist corporate apologists will favor Sanders’ platform, and now . . . there is no GOP “conservative” alternative for anyone to support (!!!).
Unless someone wants to count fascist as conservative. I don’t know why we would.
Am I missing something?
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Why are you in my brain?
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Were we the 99th and 100th monkeys? 
Maybe it was the overbrain, I dunno. It just dawned on me that for the first time since 1964, there’s no trickle-down economics guy in the POTUS race.
Whaht?!? That’s so crazy and so, so great. 
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Nope, nobody answering that description…
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Yes, except HRC now has no national conservative movement on her right. It’s on her left. There’s less leverage for her and the Dems to resist advocacy from the Sanders campaign.
For the first time since 1964, there’s no national conservative movement. It’s a bunch of squabbling regional factions.
The national movement for progressives has a leader in Sen. Sanders.
Today the national GOP of Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich and W. Bush has no leader.
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