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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:43 AM

    ... U S president is empowered to do anything and order anything ...

    See George Lakoff's book "The Political Mind". Lakoff discusses frames: basic structures of thought. In particular there is what he calls the Strict Father Frame.

    "Mapped onto politics the strict father model explains why conservatism is concerned with authority, with obedience, with discipline, and with punishment. It makes sense in a patriarchial family where male strength dominates unquestionably. ..." p. 78.

    Most importantly for this discussion, in this strict father frame, the father alone, the Leader, defines, determines, and coincides with, what is right.

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