Garrison Keillor is a bit off his rocker politically. Let’s just say that despite the advantages of an upright, stable upbringing, exposure to classical values and practices, he managed to fall down the wrong chute and was not an asset to the American nation. At his comical core, he hated America especially his fellow white Minnesotans. Yet for the most part people raised in a traditional stable setting of family and educated in the classical manner have an advantage that far ouweighs almost everything else.
There was always the undercurrent in Keillor’s commentary that conservative Lutheran values were the underpinnings of Minnesota nice, eh, and the Scandinavian social welfare state. But social welfare undermines, degrades, and ultimately destroys the conservative Lutheran values in a generation or two. Keillor enjoyed the benefits of Luther conservative values without being bothered by its burdens of personal responsibility and accountability. He was as much a free rider on the social welfare state as any Somali fraudster.
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