Last Friday, our fearless leader, Em Dash, announced the Unbossed Miscreant of the Week program, complete with cool graphics and a poll. All of which seems to be beyond my technical capabilities. Em Dash is away, so I will try to fill her sassy boots in my wobbly fashion - or Wobbly fashion.
It's been a busy, tough week for me too. So I am stealing my miscreants from someone else. They are
John Wayne
Robert Young
Why? you may well ask. Or maybe you agree about John Wayne, but the rest?
According to the stealee, these three men have created the society we have and laid the foundation for our values. We owe it to them that unions and other institutions that depend on community and communitarian values are foundering.
Horatio Alger gave us the idea that everyone can get ahead, and if we don't it's our own fault. As a result of his influence, people resent those who make just a little more than they do and have contempt for those who make less but admire and uncritical of those who make a lot more. Let me add, that I have never met anyone who worked at any of the auto plants who wasn't certain that he would one day open his own shop and make a bundle. Maybe some do.
John Wayne is just too obvious but important to remember for his contribution. We should all just suck it up and go it alone. And we should be patriots who never question our country.
Robert Young because father knows best. We are not supposed to question father. But democracy demands that we question and think for ourselves.
By the way, in looking for a few links on these guys, I found lots of evidence that the guy whose ideas these are was really onto something. Here's one more Horatio Alger link. There's lots more.
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