I bowed out of this mess a year or so ago. At that time I felt like maybe Vickers had a justifiable reason for being upset that would blow over once Faith had the baby and Ralph was more or less neutralized because we all know Ralph was and is never going to make any real effort to see his son. If Ralph was going to stay away, why mess with him and risk him striking out in revenge, was my way of thinking and I presumed the Vickers would have a similar point of view. It has been sobering catching up.
People like Vickers seem to think that lack of education, money, family stability or social status is what makes a person white trash. Often white trash exhibit those lacks but such traits are not the causation of trashiness. The real cause is a lack of dignity. Vickers is no different from a strung out meth mama screaming at her third kid's baby daddy on Christmas Eve in the middle of a trailer park, taking a swing at the cops when they are inevitably called to keep the peace.
Vickers has no dignity. He cannot control himself, he just has to keep poking and poking at Ralph because being seen as the winner and morally superior man is more important to him than behaving with self-respect. He won't even let his grandson have dignity. He is treating his grandson as a thing to be won in an argument, utterly depriving the child of respect before he can even talk. Rather, he is trying to build an e-name off the back of a baby whose internet footprint is already appalling due to his ignimonious conception and appalling parents.
He can tout his stable marriage, career history, financial success and all the other things he brings up to prove he is better than Ralph but in the end he will never understand that his desire to smear his foe and look superior is utterly undignified and makes him a trash peer of Ralph's.
Jesus Christ these people are gross.