Boots are popular these days. Most of the shoe stores I looked in today have boots in more than a third of their displays.
Boots may connote a hidden support for George W. Bush who wears cowboy boots. Boots are traditionally macho and military. Is there invisible support for the Iraqi Liberation War?
I just enjoy being provocative and asking that sort of question.
Personally, I have never found a connection between fads in the pop cultural and anything happening in the real world. Pop culture includes the worlds of fashion, top 100 songs, top 50 movies, sports and the top 20 TV programs. The real world is economics, trade, politics, technology, science, international relations and retail sales.
Maybe the success of pop-culture studies by Leftists in academia is proof of my personal observations about the disconnect of pop culture and the real world. Maybe Michael Jackson is the best evidence.