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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWait, what are family values again?
One president declares war on the wrong country, killing 100,000+, and hes lauded.
The next president allows American children to continue living with their parents and hes the lawless one?
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/11/21/obamas-immigration-speech-reader-reax/
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)You are only responsible for your family - which is basically your property. So you take care of your family - your neighbor takes care of his family and so on. That's why killing families on the other side of the globe doesn't really matter, particularly if you believe it is being done to protect your family. Your family is all that matters - those other people, they don't matter.
By the same token there's no sense being charitable towards Latino families - even if you aren't the sort to believe that Latinos just aren't real people, they are definitely not part of your family. And given the theoretically economic harm they are doing to you and your family they are easily brushed aside. They should be brushed aside as a potential threat to your family.
That's why "family values" are principally about creating the right kind of families - i.e. ones in which the men are in charge and there's no homosexuality. If each father takes care of his property properly than we will have a smooth orderly society.
Bryant
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)intentionally exclude those that don't fit into their way of thinking. They even go as far as holding illegal HOA meetings, just to avoid the undesired opinions from members that don't see things their way.
azmom
(5,208 posts)Little worlds and are threatened by anything outside of that. I could not believe when one of them told me he had seven kids and none of them have shown an interest in attending college. That just blew my mind.
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)Now, think about the results they're trying to achieve and it all makes sense. It's about protecting an Anglicized image of America. That is why some of their rules and "values" have a fluid aspect.
kiva
(4,373 posts)well, screw you.
olddots
(10,237 posts)Manson family values .
Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)1: For a Bush it's, 'If your family isn't the Bush Family, it has no value'.
2: For a RWN (right wing nut) it's 'If your family isn't like our image of a family, it has no value'. Incidentally, if you are a RWN you don't have to PRACTICE family values, just preach them. Morality is a matter of 'Do as I say, not as I do'.
Wolf
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)Remind me again why we didn't fucking revolt when these pieces of shit had seized power in 2000?