Trump Is Not Alone in Neglecting Family
Tucker Carlson is also averting his eyes, holding his tongue, and disappointing his fans.
Having posted several pieces recently on the Trump Administration’s ongoing failure to address the federal government’s systematic war against America’s families (all linked in this post), I was distressed to find this interview by Tucker Carlson with economist Oren Cass. While the bulk of the interview concerns economic policy (on which Cass seems to speak quite sensibly), it is sandwiched between an introduction and conclusion devoted to “family policy”. In fact, Carlson goes out of his way to raise this topic, because its connection with the rest of the interview is unclear. Carlson does this frequently, raising issues like the family crisis, fatherlessness, and the social pathologies that result from them, which he then does not pursue — as if he considers it important to mention but too dangerous to actually investigate himself. He is not alone in this among conservatives; in fact, it is the norm.
So perhaps Cass should not be blamed if he has nothing to say on this topic, which clearly he does not. He seems to have not the slightest understanding of how the US government is routinely and aggressively destroying families today. Not surprisingly therefore, he repeats standard conservative cliches and platitudes, and his meager remedies would achieve nothing.
Carlson’s response is more perplexing. He certainly does know full well what is destroying families, in all the grisly details, but like every other thriving journalist he has too strong a sense of his own survival to “go there”. Oddly, he praises Cass’ minimal suggestions on the family.
When even the “alternative media”, to whom we look for the uncensored truth is this clueless or censors itself about what many identify as they greatest social crisis affecting America and the Western world, we have a problem. If they will not call out the government over its most glaring neglects and failures, who will?
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Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Politics at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw. His books and recent articles are available at www.StephenBaskerville.com.
Men and Fathers are reaching the breaking point in this society. The "fuse" was lit about 1975 (50 years ago) with the advent of No-Fault Divorce, Child Support Enforcement laws (based on the Soviet Model), and Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse laws (that only targets males) in conjunction with the rise of the Marxist Radical Women's movement (i.e., National Organization for Women).
Back during the time of the colonies here, we suffered the same ignominies from the British occupation of our lands and society. The colonials tried to be reasonable and comply with the British rule and mandates, but the British passed more and more draconian laws in the colonies--like any occupying force would do. It took about 50 years for the "fuse to burn out" and the powder keg exploded in 1775. We have a similar scenario in America today. Men and Fathers are being hammered day and night with more and more draconian laws, especially with regard to government imposed Family Court directives. Men and Fathers have been trying to be reasonable, since many are raised to be polite, productive and pleasing, and to be apologists for everything that radical feminists and the Leftists-Marxists and government that impose "white middle class guilt" on us, especially the derogatory term of "white supremacy".
Democrats forget who the "white supremacists" were/are. They are ones that started slavery in the South with their slave plantations. They started the Civil War because Republican abolitionists were trying to end slavery and the Democrats didn't want to lose their wealth. After 600,000 Americans were killed for nothing, Democrats tried to block the 1866 and 1871 Civil Rights Amendments that led to the 13th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. At around the same time, the Southern Democrats brought Reconstruction of the South after its destruction in the Civil War to a halt unless they were allowed to have their slaves back to run their plantations. Simultaneously, the KKK was started by the Democrats.
Democrat President Woodrow Wilson was a big supporter of the KKK. Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt ("FDR") passed all kinds of work programs during the Great Depression to put people back to work--except blacks. Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson ("LBJ") and the Democrats tried to block the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, but were embarrassed by Republicans into voting for them. Blacks have been the target of draconian child support laws and domestic violence law passed by Democrats. See Bill Clinton, who passed the biggest child support enforcement law this country has ever seen in the 1996 PROWRA.
Democrats have been keeping blacks "down on the plantation" for decades with welfare, Medicaid, squalor slum housing such as projects in the inner city. Why? Because Democrat policy was to break up black families and make the woman the head of household by keeping the husbands/fathers out of the house in order to get government welfare. Government became head of the household in the black communities. Now, it is all falling apart for Government, since the black community has finally realized they've been getting screwed for decades. And, black men, fathers, and husbands, are starting the "take back" narratives. It only seems that radical black women are the ones fighting this and calling their own black men "Uncle Toms".
Now that this Communist welfare society creep has reached into the white communities, white men, fathers and husbands are fighting back. Case in point: The most recent Presidential Election in 2024, that was a complete landslide against the Communist-Democrat lies and propaganda that was seriously undermining this country. It will now require a course correction in dealing with the Courts, especially the Family Courts. We are seeing how the legal INDUSTRY is being weaponized against political opponents, but the legal INDUSTRY has been weaponized against fathers, families and society for the past 50 years. We are starting to see the "fuse burning out", and there will be a major sea change coming soon.
So depressing. So true.