Americans celebrate the cowboy culture of rugged individualism. It's what makes us exceptional but it is also our Achilles heel.
, the TV series about a wealthy rancher in Montana and his struggles to keep his ranch intact. It debuted in 2016, so I am a little late to the party, but it is beautifully filmed and explores several themes that are relevant to our times — principally, what is popularly known as “cowboy culture.” The central theme of the show is land.
Her thoughts begin with the horrific massacre in the town of Lewiston, Maine last week. Some of you will cheer what she has to say; others will be deeply offended. Either way, here is what she wrote . Those same people championed the image of the American cowboy as the symbol of the country: a man who wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone to work hard and prosper, and who protected himself and his family — if he had one — with a gun. in 1975, and in 1980, for the first time, it endorsed a presidential candidate: Republican Ronald Reagan. When Reagan was elected, the NRA became a player in national politics and was awash in money from gun and ammunition manufacturers.
But now, as the nation reels from another mass shooting, there is yet more proof that Republican economic individualism from which the gun obsession developed doesn’t work as well as the idea of using the government to support the American people. Growth under the Trump administration before the Covid-19 pandemic hit was 2.5%. Trump promised he would get it to 3%, which he claimed was an astonishing rate.
Those eager to dismantle the government have stood in the way of such measures, but the heartbreaking news out of Maine has changed at least one lawmaker’s stand. Representative Jared Golden , who represents Maine’s conservative second district, which includes Lewiston, today apologized for his previous opposition to gun safety laws.
This inability for some Americans to feel empathy unless something affects them or their family directly isn’t limited to issues like gun control or racial discrimination or same-sex marriage. It pervades our entire society.
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