In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.
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Whatever the calamities of the last three decades, however, these two value systems -strict father versus nurturant family -have been clashing for ever.
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The question is a proxy for what the cognitive linguist George Lakoff calls the strict father (well-mannered) versus the nurturant family (considerate) model.