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This <mark>resentment</mark> has led to a new parlor game in this country during the <mark>last thirty years</mark>, a dangerous game of <mark>name-calling</mark> called "<mark>creeping socialism</mark>." It is played by too many Americans today who <mark>simplify things too much</mark>. Often they <mark>know little to nothing</mark> about the kind of American history made by <mark>irresponsible men who forced the government into what were then our private affairs</mark>. That record clearly <mark>shows what happens when individual Americans misuse their private affairs by making them public problems</mark>. When that point is reached, the government always steps in. | This <mark>resentment</mark> has led to a new parlor game in this country during the <mark>last thirty years</mark>, a dangerous game of <mark>name-calling</mark> called "<mark>creeping socialism</mark>." It is played by too many Americans today who <mark>simplify things too much</mark>. Often they <mark>know little to nothing</mark> about the kind of American history made by <mark>irresponsible men who forced the government into what were then our private affairs</mark>. That record clearly <mark>shows what happens when individual Americans misuse their private affairs by making them public problems</mark>. When that point is reached, the government always steps in. | ||
Americans who play this dangerous new game of "creeping socialism" see that government, their <mark>government, as one of the greatest dangers to our future as a free people</mark>. In doing so they <mark>misuse the word "socialism"</mark> and they <mark>misread their own history</mark>. The <mark>problem has never been "creeping socialism" in our American government. It has always been creeping irresponsibility among too many Americans</mark>. | Americans who play this dangerous new game of "creeping socialism" see that government, their <mark>government, as one of the greatest dangers to our future as a free people</mark>. In doing so they <mark>misuse the word "socialism"</mark> and they <mark>misread their own history</mark>. The <mark>problem has never been "creeping socialism" in our American government. It has always been creeping irresponsibility among too many Americans</mark>. | ||
Elbowroom was a prominent theme in early 20th century poem ''Daniel Boone'' by American poet Arthur Guiterman.<br> | |||
<html><div class="left vid margin-r margin-t" style="width:160px; clear:both;"><div><iframe width="150" height="80" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8hwqdQ0SkjQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>Danile Boone (TV series) — theme song</div></html> | |||
[[wikipedia:Arthur_Guiterman|Arthur Guiterman]] | Wikipedia<br> | |||
''[https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/daniel-boone-1 Daniel Boone]'' by Arthur Guiterman<br> | |||
Shakespeare may have coined elbowroom in his 1597 play “King John.” The dying king in the final act is carried out into the orchard, situated on the castle grounds; breathing the fresh air, King John says, “Ah ... now my soul hath elbow room.”<br> | |||
[[wikipedia:Daniel_Boone|Daniel Boone]] | Wikipedia<br> | |||
[[wikipedia:Daniel_Boone_(1964_TV_series)|Daniel Boone (1964 TV series)]] | Wikipedia — popular shortly after Dr. Burke published his book ''Enough Good Men'' that referenced "elbowroom".<br> | |||
==TV Productions== | ==TV Productions== | ||