Maybe the country's OK after all - Duck Dynasty - Granite Grok

Maybe the country’s OK after all – Duck Dynasty

I stumbled upon Duck Dynasty when it first started: a bunch of good old boys just having fun  – and getting fabulously wealthy at the same time.  And then I started to really watch past the beards, past the slapstick humor, and figured out that this was as conservative a show that there was on TV.  Guess that lots of people agree with me:

Duck Dynasty - heat-mapReid Wilson shares a map from National Media, a Republican ad-buying firm, depicting a recent television event: “Using data from Rentrak, a company that monitors data from set-top boxes, the map shows what percentage of television viewers in specific designated market areas watched this television event live.”

Red are Republican leaning counties, Blue are the Progressive.  You can tell who sees the same things I do – and those snobs that only see the beards, the guns, the hunting, and the fishing.

What they don’t see is a multi-million dollar biz built up by a father that was better than Terry Bradshaw in college, who decided to take his own way in life, perservered through the hard times with a good woman by his side, a “bitter clinger to his Bible and his guns” – and turned a hobby into a fortune.

Family values, too – and from what we’ve seen lately in the news, a value that is seemingly dismissed by the Blues(“you don’t need a mother and a father – that nuclear family schtick is so passe and outmoded; family is what we say it is!”) but still treasured by the Reds (mostly).  Teach the young’uns values too – “yes sir, no ma’am”, show respect, and ingrain traditions and values that, well, just work (the antithesis of Progressives who snear at anything older than themselves).  Hard work, persistence, and an acknowledgement that we all are accountable and we all are accountable to a higher authority (and that not being of chest busting “Office of the President Elect”).

Yes, God.  Godfearing men, women, and children.  A belief that must seem rather strange and foreign to the Blues.  And the Robertsons aren’t afraid to show it – every end of the show, they sit as a complete family, bow their heads, and give thanks to God for what He has given to them.

They understand that they are under the Grace of God – and are grateful. In short, the traditional family.  Something that Progressives look down upon (one only has to look at their policies to know this).  That is the explanation of the map.

More Red than Blue.  Maybe this is what Brietbart meant when he said that politics is downstream of culture.  A nugget of gold?

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