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Having made this point, Gingrich proceeds to survey America's problems and blame them on various people. If you're familiar with his formidable oeuvre of TV utterances--his book is kind of a Cliffs Notes version--you can guess the culprits. The "bureaucrats" have helped destroy the family, undermine the work ethic and dumb down education. Meanwhile, the liberal "elites" (in a "calculated effort") have helped "discredit this civilization," sapping faith in American values...
...exhaustive is the finger pointing in Gingrich's book that even the tendency to blame others gets blamed on others. Thus the victim mentality, which encourages people to blame their personal failings on "society," is largely the work of "the countercultural left." A question arises: Does the complicity of the counterculture in this tendency mean that faulting your social environment for your faults isn't really your fault? If so, that's good news for Gingrich. Asked on TV a few months ago about his use of marijuana during the Vietnam period, he said it was merely a sign that...
...Gingrich's usual suspects--the bureaucrats, the elites, the counterculture--are, of course, bound by a common trait: none is exactly a central pillar of his constituency. Indeed, a remarkable feature of America's problems, as analyzed in Gingrich's book, is that they are never the fault of Republicans. Even the slightest misdemeanor, if committed by a Republican, turns out to originate in some external cause. For example, Gingrich once saw some Republicans in Congress "grandstand for the news media." (Imagine that!) But it turns out they had been egged on by "liberals in the Washington press corps...
...naive observer might think Republicans share some blame for the demise of family values. After all, Republicans get divorced just like everybody else, right? Gingrich himself left his first wife--and their two children--for a younger woman...
...Gingrich's carefully crafted references to family morality, neither divorcing a wife nor leaving your children draws any criticism. Rather, what's wrong is for men not to "support" their children: "Any male who does not take care of his children is a bum and deserves no respect." Presumably, Gingrich is talking about financial support. Thus the moral of the story is: men with money (likely Republican voters) are free to move from wife to wife, but poorer men (unlikely Republican voters) are not. If some underclass man dumps a wife, he's a cause of America's festering moral...