If I Want Someone Who Cares, I'll Call My Mom
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Sep 24, 2010 at 6:00am
I'm with Daniel Larison on the Mourning in America ad. I don't want my government to care about me. I want my government to stay out of my way and do its very limited job competently. I'm just not interested in my government's emotions.
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Aug '10
Re: If I Want Someone Who Cares, I'll Call My Mom
Point well taken, Claire. The time is over for Statist/Marxist schemes of "caring", or as Nancy Pelosi says,"Investing in our children" by running up trillions in debt that they will have to pay.
However, there's more to this. We want people in government who have the same love for America that our Founders, both men and women, had. If they love the country, then they'll love us as fellow citizens. Just as George Washington gave us victory over tyranny, declined the offer of kingship, and turned his horse toward home, so do we want our politicians to be selfless and generous when the time calls for it.
The Romans called that sense of community and pride in citizenship civitas. and it's really easy to see what happens to countries when the people don't have that spirit. That loss of civitas is what killed Rome.
Victor Davis Hanson has a column out about the peasant mentality we've acquired recently, and how different it is from the spirit of free people - which we once had. We've been in a tailspin, and the Tea Parties show that we are recovering our sense of shred responsibility.
Sep '10
Re: If I Want Someone Who Cares, I'll Call My Mom
I agree, and riffing off the famous Reagan ad with a bad pun displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the effectiveness of Reagans positive message standing in relief of the troubled times. I am left thinking, cmon, it isn't that bad...showing people at gravesides dressed in black...who died? Was it starvation or suicide? The ad doesn't motivate or inspire and is crudely manipulative. Fail.
Jul '10
Re: If I Want Someone Who Cares, I'll Call My Mom
Yes, yes, yes! When I first read the transcript of the "Mourning in America" video, I wanted to punch something. In fact, I was so bummed that I still haven't actually watched the video!
The nanny state has so badly infected the body politic that even what is supposed to be an iconically conservative video calls for more caring government!?!
I was going to write something myself, but my heart wasn't in it.
Thank you!
Edited on Sep 24, 2010 at 10:32amRe: If I Want Someone Who Cares, I'll Call My Mom
What Claire said...that's what I think!