Andrew Breitbart: politics is downstream from culture. - Granite Grok

Andrew Breitbart: politics is downstream from culture.

Heard this line last night that speaks to this “I’m a Duck Dynasty values family forced to live in a Molly Cyrus World“; what used to be good and valued is denigrated and replaced.  What was good is now bad, what was bad is now celebrated.  Holding onto traditional values used to be a virtue – now it enrages others (e.g., like not bowing down to the militant gay movement that is trying to force approval upon all) to cause you to lose your job and be unable to support your family.

Citizen Quiet RageIn this, the GOP Leadership and Elites are, once again, to prove they wish the GOP to be the Stupid Party as it runs away from the veritable storm now roiling the American culture and merely mouth “Fiscal policies only!”  Attitudes and mores form the foundation for politics and the GOP Elite cannot bring themselves to confront the truth that “Social issues determine fiscal policies”.  All one has to do is look at the push by Progressives to have single women with children adopt the (really bad) idea that they do not need a husband – Government can support them.  And that turns into Welfare – and how is the massive financial transfers (about $1 Trillion / year, all programs, all told) NOT a fiscal issue???? 

You cannot have “limited Government” when, as Democrats keep saying, “Government is part of your family” as we are about to see as Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion rolls out here in NH.  You cannot hold up the virtue of self-reliance while the media and other cultural ramparts preach and change the outlook that Government can do everything for you.  The list can go on and on.

But those of us who old to those traditional values are slow to ire, but the ire is starting to burn.  Soon the GOP may learn, just like Obama, that leading from behind doesn’t work.

(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)

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