06-21-2024, 04:35 PM
(06-21-2024, 03:50 PM)Dill Wrote: To Christian Nationalists, and more on the right, that looks like far left indoctrination.
My rightest friends might respond: Sex ed should be up to parents. And they are responsible for providing housing and care for their children, not the government. Domestic violence is already against the law and anyway it can't be legislated out of existence. Acts of violence against women are perpetrated by individuals who should be held accountable for their behavior if proven to violate the law.
If I'm on the far right, the only social "conditions" that degrade families which I can acknolwedge are "far left" social policies. Otherwise, there is no effective or affectable connection between social environment (e.g., poverty, crime, lack of educational/employment/housing opportunity) and the family problems you'd address above. Those are all traced to individuals who make bad choices, which begins with ignoring the Bible and flouting traditional role models and family ideals. From this perspective, a reaffirmation of Christian lifestyle, affirmed and supported by federal and state government, is the more practical solution, as they believe our deist founders intended.
So you are dealing with a total world view here, in which inquiry into social problems stops with "personal accountability," except where government polices are concerned. And in practice, only divinely chosen leaders can be excepted from that accountability. Your proposals only make sense to parents who are already more secular, science-oriented types. I think one aspect of Project 2025 is that it is a concerted effort to alter the social conditions which have allowed that secular, science-oriented world view to thrive in the U.S. Hence the special foci on HHs, Dept. of Ed--the DOJ needed to enforce the required changes.
Actually, there is very much a social condition that is not contingent on acknowledging any of the above, the fatherless household. As previously mentioned children do significantly better throughout life when a father is present in the house. Even in single parent households, the results are statistically better if that single parent is the father. Now, one might argue that the "far left" has been rather dismissive of the role of fathers in child development. One might even argue that third wave feminism has actively denigrated that role. But one thing can be said with absolute certainty, a fatherless household is most assuredly not a conservative position. And, I'm sorry to say, personal accountability absolutely plays a role in this problem.
