Posted on 05/09/2017 1:25:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
It was the title of a song done by Paula Cole back in 1996, and a very popular song might I add. It came out at a time when I was stationed at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas going through the US Army Command and General Staff Officer College (CGSC). I had just returned from a one-year assignment in the Second Infantry Division up near the DMZ in South Korea. I was wrapping up one Masters from Kansas State University, and beginning another at CGSC. They loved that song out in the Midwest.
Of course today, 21 years later, the radical liberal progressive feminists would condemn Ms. Cole’s song as sexist and misogynist. What Ms. Cole was addressing was a rhetorical question about rugged, strong, responsible men…where had they gone? I can answer that question, the progressive socialist left has changed them into the “Pajama Boy”. For whatever reason, that which the world had previously admired about America, became despised and rejected here at home. There was something about that tough individualism that defined who we were, and oft times it was metaphorically portrayed as the American Cowboy. Sure, they had the gauchos down in South America, but American western movies and folklore gave us a model, an ideal of what resolve looked like.
C’mon, who out there has not watched the movie “Tombstone” countless times and memorized the lines of Val Kilmer portraying Doc Holliday? And ladies, you all recall that line from Dana Delany when she got off the stagecoach and peered down Allen Street in Tombstone, Arizona and said, “who is that tall drink of water?”
However, those images of American men have been denigrated. A prime example was when the liberal progressives of Europe and America demeaned President George W. Bush as just “an American Cowboy.” In their eyes, the American Cowboy was an inherently negative and neanderthalic image. To their delight, President Bush was replaced by Barack Obama, who embodied a more acceptable, gentler, less intimidating image of America, which by virtue of his lofty rhetoric and sweet smile, was ordained to pacify the world. What ended up happening was eight years of abject weakness, but hey folks, it felt good right? No longer was the American image one that was threatening or intimidating, it was one that sought not to be respected, but liked.
Furthermore, that image of rugged individualism was replaced by one of victimization. Heck, we no longer saw women as Annie Oakleys but rather as wards of the state as portrayed in the video “The Life of Julia”. Our lives were no longer about our own drive and determination, it was about a government that would take care of us from cradle to grave…one that even decided who gets to the cradle. After all, remember the assertion of one Barack Obama in Roanoke, Virginia, 2012, “if you own a business, you didn’t build that”. That statement, and his reelection after making it, gave the liberal progressive response to the question posed by Paula Cole in 1996. The spirit of the American cowboy was dead.
The fundamental transformation of America that Barack Obama and the leftist progressive socialists sought was simple. It was to recreate American society as not one of hard working family based strong and resilient people who only sought to pursue their happiness. It was to make our American society one of wimps, wussies, whiners, and gender swapping victims who needed government to guarantee their happiness.
All one has to do is look at the past week with the healthcare vote that occurred in the US House of Representatives last week, along with the omnibus spending measure. The overarching message is that we the people can no longer survive, literally according to the liberal progressive leftists of the Democratic Party, unless it is granted to us by the government. And sadly, we have some in the Republican Party now buying into this highly dangerous agenda. It is an agenda that is antithetical to what Alexis de Tocqueville saw when he traveled the United States in the early 1800s and wrote the book, “Democracy in America”.
The political masters of America no longer believe that Americans can make decisions about their own lives. And we have fallen into that belief system as a society as well. Democrats this past weekend were out on talk shows discussing how Americans will die if there is no Obamacare. In other words, we cannot be trusted to have policies which enable us to care for ourselves, it must be given to us.
That belief system leads one down a path that does not end up well. If we as a Nation no longer believe that we are capable of determining what is best for ourselves, that healthcare is a right to be bestowed upon us by flawed politicians…can they also deny that right as they wish? There is a popular insight to which we should pay heed, “a government big enough to give you what you want, is also big enough to take it away”.
The growth of the culture of the participation trophy will only undermine and harm the idea of determined individualism that once defined America. If we no longer welcome that concept of working hard to attain something of our own volition, realizing that some do need assistance, but only as a stop gap, then we end up surrendering our true unalienable rights – life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
There is truly a culture war in America. There is also a conflagration between politics and policy. It is all driven by two very different attitudes. Do Americans seek to hear what they need to hear, or do Americans seek what they want to hear? A statesmen will convey to you that which you need to hear, and set the conditions that create opportunities, through policies consistent with our fundamental principles, for you to pursue your dreams, goals, and aspirations. Politicians will tell you what they think you want to hear using politics and rhetoric to enslave you to what they believe your outcomes should be.
Where have all the Cowboys gone? They are certainly not in Washington, DC, but that spirit still exists in America. It is all about true American individualism, not collectivism. It is about individual sovereignty and liberty, not collective submission and subjugation. It is about a hard day of work, and resting knowing what you have created with your own hands, not waiting for someone to place something into your hands for little to no effort.
It’s why once upon a time we called the Dallas Cowboys, “America’s Team” because that is our indomitable spirit. I hope and pray we will never have a football team called the “pajama boys”…
Hmmm, that was from Ephesians 5:22-33. It's part of the Bible.
"If you want to know how to fix this country, study the ways of women."
Ahhh, like Hillary" Eleanor Roosevelt? Margie Sanger?
They can’t jump.
...they become one flesh...
Mark 10:8
Genesis 2:24
Okay. Did they ever share a pot of beans around the fire at the end of a long day?
I'm aware of what you were referring to. Nevertheless, it provides no procedure, no definitions, and used as a rejoinder this context perfectly fits the definition of "platitudinous."
Or did you think citing Scripture confers some kind of immunity from such "mishandling of the Word?"
Ahhh, like Hillary" Eleanor Roosevelt? Margie Sanger?
I would suggest you start with women you know, rather than women you "hear about."
The standby should be "test ALL things, hold fast that which is good," with the provisos of not just testing what you question, and not forgetting what you found that was bad.
One reason my husband and I get along so well is that he sees me as his wife not his mother.
But then he is a man not a little boy.
The men want a mommy and don’t want to be the leader of a family
Yes......’it's a Daisy’. only find flaw with the shotgunning of one poor soul that was launched across an alley by the blast. This bit of Pekinpawian special effects is fake but fun to watch. I love Pekinpaw’s movies especially the Wild Bunch.
But let's face it. Even a 10 gauge won't launch a human across an 8 foot alley.
Men have mothers. They don’t need to have two.
That being said, what is the distinction you draw between wife and mother?
Pray tell, what does wanting a mommy look like?
You would think that but sadly it is not so.
That being said, what is the distinction you draw between wife and mother?
You wife is your partner in life. When there is trouble you face it together.
Your mother has to tell you what to do and take care of you because you are not capable of doing for yourself.
If you are not clear on the difference, please do not get married.
I used to think Val Kilmer got robbed of a best supporting actor award for his Doc Holiday role until I looked it up and the person who won it that year was Tommy Lee Jones in the Fugitive.
Tough call.
Little late for that teddy. Our thirtieth anniversary is in two months. How about you?
Aside from that I see nothing in your response beside vanity. For you to even presume to tell a man what a man is is vanity.
Tell me, does “facing life together” include a rational division of labor for the household while things YOU want done, the way you WANT them done are done by yourself without his coerced assistance?
BTW...any woman who accuses a man of wanting a “mommy to tell him what to do” when said man lived on his own prior to getting married is on the same level as Maxine Waters.
Not to mention Costner's fanning scene with a 9 shot SAA. It did convey the messiness of old west gunfights though.
I read the 9 shot fan was the result of poor editing. Funny how editing or lack of it is always Costner’s undoing. The man somehow gets to put out the director’s cuts.
The men want the mommy to provide an income, cook, clean and let them play video games, ride their motorcycles, grow pot in the garage and not nag them to get a job.
THIS may explain it...
http://cache.lovethispic.com/uploaded_images/230326-I-Don-t-Always-Cry-But-When-I-Do-I-Get-Titty.jpg
So, did you even read Colonel West's essay?
My comments were in agreement with his point - feel free to debate him.
I stand on first-hand experience in family, prison, and pro-life ministries. These are things I know - not just things I hear about.
America has a problem with men who never grew up - Colonel West knows it, I know it. Denial doesn't make it go away.
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