1. The unexpected....nay, the astounding victory, of Donald Trump was like a pail of ice water in the kisser to those on the Left.
The best possible outcome would be if it causes a time of re-evaluation and reflection to those thoughtful individuals who have, until now, succumbed to Leftist inculcation.
2. Let's focus on two of the mandated beliefs of Leftism that require re-evaluation.
Among the catechisms demanded by the left of its adherents is a radical feminism, whose pillars include the views that any difference between men and women is merely a 'social construct,' and that women and families don't need men.
Or, as Patricia Dunn and Gloria Steinem popularized it.... "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
3. Another is that economic inequality is the source of all societal problems, and solving this would lead to Utopia.
It happens that the Left's hatred of material inequality finds a nexus in their man-hatred....and both are horribly wrong.
a. The Left’s concept of materialism broadens into the overarching desire to see every individual materially equal, and, as such, is less interested in creating wealth than in distributing it. Therefore their forces have been far more interested in fighting material inequality than fighting tyranny, which is why Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, etc., tend to have the support of Leftists around the world.
Here's their problem: the demand for material equality, and the demand to force men out of the picture, work exactly in opposition to each other!
Our Liberal/Progressive pals should take to heart the message in the Trump victory, and recognize what the voters have: it is traditional attitudes about family and moral values that end poverty, and give everyone a chance for prosperity.
4. "Renowned Russian developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner summarized his research, stating: “The family is the most powerful, the most humane, and by far the most economical system known for building competence and character.”
... consider how the current trends in out-of-wedlock childbearing, divorce and cohabitation are threatening the power of the family unit. Furthermore, each of these threats produces a common result: fatherlessness. ...
Until we address the breakdown of the family— particularly the absentee father problem—there will never be a sustainable alternative to eradicating poverty.
. . . there is a Father-Factor in our [world’s] worst social problems. In other words, for many of our most intractable social ills affecting children, father absence is to blame.”In the United States over 24 million children are growing up without their biological father; in the year 2014 nearly a quarter of children lived in father-absent homes.... 45% of U.S. children on the cusp of adulthood have grown up in an intact married family.”
MercatorNet: Fatherhood: the antidote to the poverty problem
It's well past the time for those fishes to get bicycles.
The best possible outcome would be if it causes a time of re-evaluation and reflection to those thoughtful individuals who have, until now, succumbed to Leftist inculcation.
2. Let's focus on two of the mandated beliefs of Leftism that require re-evaluation.
Among the catechisms demanded by the left of its adherents is a radical feminism, whose pillars include the views that any difference between men and women is merely a 'social construct,' and that women and families don't need men.
Or, as Patricia Dunn and Gloria Steinem popularized it.... "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
3. Another is that economic inequality is the source of all societal problems, and solving this would lead to Utopia.
It happens that the Left's hatred of material inequality finds a nexus in their man-hatred....and both are horribly wrong.
a. The Left’s concept of materialism broadens into the overarching desire to see every individual materially equal, and, as such, is less interested in creating wealth than in distributing it. Therefore their forces have been far more interested in fighting material inequality than fighting tyranny, which is why Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, etc., tend to have the support of Leftists around the world.
Here's their problem: the demand for material equality, and the demand to force men out of the picture, work exactly in opposition to each other!
Our Liberal/Progressive pals should take to heart the message in the Trump victory, and recognize what the voters have: it is traditional attitudes about family and moral values that end poverty, and give everyone a chance for prosperity.
4. "Renowned Russian developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner summarized his research, stating: “The family is the most powerful, the most humane, and by far the most economical system known for building competence and character.”
... consider how the current trends in out-of-wedlock childbearing, divorce and cohabitation are threatening the power of the family unit. Furthermore, each of these threats produces a common result: fatherlessness. ...
Until we address the breakdown of the family— particularly the absentee father problem—there will never be a sustainable alternative to eradicating poverty.
. . . there is a Father-Factor in our [world’s] worst social problems. In other words, for many of our most intractable social ills affecting children, father absence is to blame.”In the United States over 24 million children are growing up without their biological father; in the year 2014 nearly a quarter of children lived in father-absent homes.... 45% of U.S. children on the cusp of adulthood have grown up in an intact married family.”
MercatorNet: Fatherhood: the antidote to the poverty problem
It's well past the time for those fishes to get bicycles.
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