Being a Man - politically incorrect right now

It's the 30th anniversary of John Wayne's death. Not a lot of men like this in the media anymore, not sure our current media would allow them. Although he played a variety of characters in the movies he is best known and will always be thought of as a Cowboy with uncompromising values. I a sense a man's man. Although considered a right wing extremist, his quotes have espoused values are definitely more libertarian than conservative.

John Wayne Quotes:

• I don't give jobs, I hire men.
  
  
  
  
• Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
  
  
  
  
• somewhat troubled by the absence of a consistent policy governing our willingness to permit the President to participate in these private, commercial tributes . . . .
  
  
  
  
• I have found a certain type calls himself a liberal . . . Now I always thought I was a liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a right-wing conservative extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view . .
  
  
  
  
• High Noon (1952) was the most un-American thing I have ever seen in my whole life. The last thing in the picture is ol' Coop [Gary Cooper] putting the United States marshal's badge under his foot and stepping on it. I'll never regret having run [screenwriter Carl Foreman] out of this country.
  
  
  
  
• I'm not going to give you those I-was-a-poor-boy-and-I-pulled-myself-up-by-my-bootstraps-stories, but I've gone without a meal or two in my lifetime, and I still don't expect the government to turn over any of its territory to me. Hard times aren't something I can blame my fellow citizens for. Years ago, I didn't have all the opportunities, either. But you can't whine and bellyache 'cause somebody else got a good break and you didn't, like these Indians are. We'll all be on a reservation soon if the socialists keep subsidizing groups like them with our tax money.
  
  
  
  
• Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
  
  
  
  
• I've known Jane Fonda since she was a little girl. I've never agreed with a word she's said, but would give my life defending her right to say it.
  

Good guys vs Bad guys and a big battle to determine the winner, with no trouble telling which is which. Morality plays, even his non westerns were westerns. No moral nuances in his movies, and no regret at all. They were definitely not pity parties.

His movies expressed libertarian values not psychobablebullshit. You never saw the Duke trying to get in with his inner child. You did see him standing up for principles and protecting those rights for others.

30 years since his death and his last movie, The Shootist. His movies are still loved by virtually everybody, and still criticized and hated by socialists and liberals who just don't get it and think that they should control others who don't make the decisions they would make.

I'll close with my favorite John Wayne Quote, from the Shootist:

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on... I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them