Your article details two core values of the "strict father" authoritarian family model that dominates the GQP: They believe in a social hierarchy to all things, and for living things, severe punishment is manditory to maintain their hierarchy.
Many people, world-wide, are taught and believe this. They seek out and elect "social d…
Your article details two core values of the "strict father" authoritarian family model that dominates the GQP: They believe in a social hierarchy to all things, and for living things, severe punishment is manditory to maintain their hierarchy.
Many people, world-wide, are taught and believe this. They seek out and elect "social dominators," "Trump, Abbott, and DeSantis," Erdoğan, Orbán, who share, and will turn, these core values into reality. They support voter suppression and "drug wars" to keep 'inferior' people from changing their assigned position on their hierarchy. They love tax breaks for the rich who can buy politicians who write laws to enforce their hierarchy.
The details and the research on these "strict father" values and why they are part of the GQP worldview can be studied in the works of Professor George Lakoff. His latest, recently revised, book on "family models" is titled "Don't Think of an Elephant - Know Your Values & Frame the Debate."
Hi Thom,
Your article details two core values of the "strict father" authoritarian family model that dominates the GQP: They believe in a social hierarchy to all things, and for living things, severe punishment is manditory to maintain their hierarchy.
Many people, world-wide, are taught and believe this. They seek out and elect "social dominators," "Trump, Abbott, and DeSantis," Erdoğan, Orbán, who share, and will turn, these core values into reality. They support voter suppression and "drug wars" to keep 'inferior' people from changing their assigned position on their hierarchy. They love tax breaks for the rich who can buy politicians who write laws to enforce their hierarchy.
The details and the research on these "strict father" values and why they are part of the GQP worldview can be studied in the works of Professor George Lakoff. His latest, recently revised, book on "family models" is titled "Don't Think of an Elephant - Know Your Values & Frame the Debate."
https://www.powells.com/book/dont-think-of-an-elephant-10th-anniversary-edition-know-your-values-frame-the-debate-9781603585941
Thom helps us see who the GQP is. Lakoff helps us understand why they are who they are and how to respond to them.