Faith-based programs attempted to bypass the social disaster of the lost family without ceding the social territory to big government --- yep ... been seeing a lot of Divorce Care signs at churches.
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 4:05:35 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > Daniel Greenfield's article: Americans Alone > <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> > > [image: Link to Sultan Knish] <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> > ------------------------------ > > Posted: 16 Sep 2014 08:02 AM PDT > > For the first time in American statistical history, the majority of > American adults are single. 124 million or 50.2% of Americans are single. > Some will get married, but increasing numbers never will. > > > <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kLMLa4swcTg/VBhQqk4L0oI/AAAAAAAAOX8/MBwOHA_4Xtg/s1600/lonely-loneliness-21529870-329-328.jpg> > Demographically > a population of single adults means the death of the Republican Party. It > eliminates the possibility of libertarian and fiscally conservative > policies. It leads inevitably to the welfare state. > > Single people are less likely to have a support system that keeps them > from becoming a public charge. Children born to single parents perform > poorly in school and are more likely to engage in criminal behavior. A > nation of single people will inevitably become a welfare state and a police > state. > > The statistics have always been known and the conclusions to be drawn from > them are inescapable. > > A lot of attention is being paid to the political consequences of the > nation’s changing racial demographics, but it’s not a coincidence that the > racial group that Republicans perform worst with is also the least likely > to be married. While there are other factors in the mix, Republicans do > better with married than unmarried black people. > > The same is true of most other racial groups. > > The latest Reuters poll shows that 36% of married Hispanics are planning > to vote for a Democratic candidate in the upcoming midterm election and 28% > are planning to vote for a Republican candidate. Among unmarried Hispanics, > those numbers change to 42% Democratic and %15 Republican. > > If Republicans want to start getting serious about the Hispanic vote, they > might want to spend less time muttering about amnesty and more time > thinking about where their strength with married voters lies. > > Married white voters lean toward a Republican candidate by 43% to 24%. > Among single white voters, Democrats lead 34% to 26%. There are other > factors that affect these numbers such as age, race, sexual orientation and > religious affiliation. Growing minority demographics have certainly helped > make single Americans a statistical majority, but it’s dangerous to ignore > the bigger picture of the post-family demographic trend. > > If Republicans insist on running against the nanny state, they will have > to replace it with something. That something was traditionally the family. > Take away the family and something else has to fill its place. > > In the West, government has become the new family. The state is father and > occasionally mother. The nanny state is literally a nanny. It may be hated, > but it is also needed. > > That is why married whites oppose ObamaCare 65% to 34% while single whites > also oppose it, but by a narrower margin of 53% to 47%. > > ObamaCare’s support base among whites is highest among single white men > and women. (Despite Julia and Sandra Fluke, the latest poll numbers show > that young single white women oppose ObamaCare by a higher margin than > young single white men. Pajama Boy with his hot cocoa is more likely to be > a fervent proponent of ObamaCare than Julia. But the margins for both sexes > remain narrow.) > > > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t8f0vrokTH0/VBhQr7FZ1zI/AAAAAAAAOYI/8vu_g4TLSa4/s1600/this-lonely-morgan-stanley-analyst-wishes-people-would-return-his-calls.jpg> > > It’s unrealistic to expect people to vote against their short term > interests. Without family, the individual is vulnerable. A single bad day > can leave him homeless and hungry. While the system of social welfare > actually intensifies the overall economic conditions that are likely lead > to such a state of vulnerability, those who are caught in that cycle will > choose to protect themselves from the consequences in the short term > without considering the long term causation cost to themselves and everyone > else. > > That was the logic behind ObamaCare. It’s the logic behind the entire > spending spree of the nanny state. > > If Republicans are going to start winning based on something other than > the public’s frustration with Obama, they will have to address this > reality. Republicans have treated family as a reference point, like the > United States or the dollar, a verity that would always be there, a word > that they could reference to show their singular virtue without having to > meaningfully assess and address what was wrong with it. > > The American vision of limited government depended on a stable society > that could fend for itself. The progressives originally gained power from > the collapse of large economic institutions which they used to prove that > their intervention was needed. They have gained even more power from the > collapse of social institutions. > > Without an underlying network of families maintaining a working society, > the nanny state grows. And it doesn’t limit its attentions to those who > seek it out. Small scale solutions are made possible by the integrity of > small institutions. Without the order created by the small institution of > the family, the order that teaches children right from wrong, that cares > for its elderly parents and supports members of the family, the only > alternative becomes the large scale solution of the totalitarian state and > its bureaucracy. > > Republicans cannot campaign on policies that assume that the family is the > dominant institution once it no longer is. If they do not place a fiscally > conservative agenda within the larger context of restoring the family, they > will become the advocates of policies that hardly anyone except their donor > base supports. > > Three choices lie ahead. > > The Republican Party can fight for the family. It can abandon fiscal > conservatism and social conservatism in both word and deed to pursue its > real program of trying to make big government work. Or it can look for > alternative institutions that can replace both family and government. > > > <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9cwXLZW6A9U/VBhQp4j1v2I/AAAAAAAAOX4/ljv5Eui3ca8/s1600/72.jpg>Faith-based > > programs attempted to bypass the social disaster of the lost family without > ceding the social territory to big government, but there is only so much > that any entity outside the family can do. No amount of programs can fill > the gap for a child or an adult. The family is an organic wraparound > entity. Replacing it led to a Great Society in which a horde of social > workers, teachers, psychologists, parole officers and sociologists > struggled to fill the role of a mother and a father. > > It doesn’t take a village to raise a child except in a failed state and no > village can afford to hire an entire other village to raise its children. > That, among other things, is what is bringing California to its knees. > > Replacing the family, with or without government, is expensive and > difficult. Republicans can and should champion private sector alternatives > to government takeovers, faith-based or otherwise, but such an approach > will only delay the inevitable. There really is no institutional > replacement for the family. > > The demographic shift taking place is critical because it will determine > whether we have a big government or a small government. Republicans can > either adapt to a post-family America by becoming the party of the welfare > state or they can work toward an America that is once again centered around > the institution of the family. > > Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger and a > Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. > > > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=MVG-1kQfwwA:jTuKVC_1Dd4:yIl2AUoC8zA> > > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=MVG-1kQfwwA:jTuKVC_1Dd4:I9og5sOYxJI> > > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=MVG-1kQfwwA:jTuKVC_1Dd4:63t7Ie-LG7Y> > > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=MVG-1kQfwwA:jTuKVC_1Dd4:F7zBnMyn0Lo> > > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=MVG-1kQfwwA:jTuKVC_1Dd4:UT3xtbGYFzA> > > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=MVG-1kQfwwA:jTuKVC_1Dd4:qj6IDK7rITs> > > > > > > Email delivery powered by Google > > > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbm4wcGs3BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MTA5Nzk1ODM-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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