the good life

Kristen Wiig stars in a complex performance as a naive social climber determined to find a place in 1969 Palm Beach society in the mistaken belief that it represents not only the good life but a good life.

If you read this passage quickly, it’s possible to miss the rhetorical sleight of hand at play here — one that substitutes an impoverished conception of liberty that is captive to a conservative Christian nationalist determination of the good life for true individual liberty that is determined by each citizen.

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Among the members of the military I’ve known are those seeking U.S. citizenship, those who are first generation born in this country, and those who saw the military as a way to have “the good life,” I’ve been told.

“I’m living the good life,” he says.