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BRANSON, MISSOURI'S MUZIKSCHAUKULTUR, FEATURING AS IT DOES NOTHING LESS THAN SUGAR-COATED CONSERVATIVE IDEALISM based on an idealised past, seems to be losing steam in recent years.

Especially considering the consequences of uncontrolled development since the "music show" tourism boom began some 20 years back translating into serious traffic problems and the lack of what could be called fresh material (let alone talent) in the established Muzikschau community as is concentrated along Shepherd of the Hills Expressway and 76 Country Boulevard for the most part.

Not to mention the vast majority of shows appealing to the same sort of audience who watches Fox Prolefeed or listens to the ilk of Rush Limbaugh, Neal Boortz, Michael Savage and others from the Dark Satanic Mills of Neoconservative Propaganda--as in poor, undereducated or homeschooled and easily-influenced White Low Church Christian families hard-wired in their Zealotry and True Belief in the Greater Neoconservative Agenda and its articles of faith.

As well as a substantial crowd from The Greatest Generation coming on cheap bus tours as include accomodations, meals and admission to the more popular shows--in particular those of Branson favourite Shoji Tabuchi, Andy Williams' Moon River Theatre, Tony Orlando's Yellow Ribbon Theatre and the outdoor dramatisation of the Harold Bell Wright novel The Shepherd of the Hills as first called attention to the Branson area nearly 100 years ago (and is still in print).

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UNFORTUNATELY, THOUGH, HIGH GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL PRICES MAY BE FORCING MANY TO RECONSIDER VISITING BRANSON, let alone bus tour operators having to impose fuel surcharges. That, and the generally souring socioeconomic situation.

Which could be enough to reach that point where some of the more blatantly propagandistic Branson music shows may be forced to pay visitors to sit through their sugar-coated drivel just to stay afloat ... or, for that matter, subsidise a number of bus tours as target especially lower-income areas which are natural targets for conservative articles of faith.

Subsidise such to the point of their being ridiculously cheap, as it turns out.

Much of the subsidy, it turns out, coming from conservative "foundations" seeing in Branson the One True and Final Perfection of Amerikanischer Realkultur based on their notions thereof--which, on closer and more thorough reading, turn out to be closer to the Social Realism school preferred by Communistic and Fascistic regimes, with the requisite Ayn Rand existentialism.

No wonder Die Bransoner Muzikschaukultur is showing the same signs of clear desperation as Neoconservatism in general--could it be, perchance, that the two are intertwined in an unhealthy and unholy alliance of misguided convenience?