From A Broken Home

If we compare the role of parenting and all of its modern manifestations, to the role of nation building, we can see where the function of government, and its various forms, have also evolved.

Have you ever questioned the definition of "Parent"? 

Typically, here is a basic definition with regard to human beings:

A progenitor of a child. One who contributes to the fertilization and gestation of an embryo.

In our modern culture, it doesn't end there: 

Another way to ascertain parenthood is via DNA analysis (known as genetic fingerprinting of individuals); other methods have included ABO blood group typing, analysis of various other proteins and enzymes, or using human leukocyte antigens. A child has at least one biological father and mother, but not every family is a traditional nuclear family. There are many variants, such as adoption, shared parenting, stepfamilies, and LGBT parenting, over which there has been much controversy.

What was at some point in the past a fairly simple concept, has morphed into a "relatively" complicated number of constructs.

But the basic principle that children must have and need some form of parenting, remains. The human baby takes an enormous amount of time and energy to be formed into a functionally self reliant and complete adult. It doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Society, whether a tribal family in the jungle or the demographic of a big city, recognizes the responsibility to raise children is a common one, initially by the birth parents (or parent), but in the long run, some level of work is required by the community at large. The job is just too big for one or two people if the community wants the young person to become a contributing member of that community. To be capable of supporting himself, to follow the laws and customs, and to hopefully become a parent too, someday. So we developed community services like churches, schools, daycare, and extracurricular activities, to enhance the maturing process, and to offer support for the "family" to have jobs that create income to support the costs involved with child rearing.

As the world gradually integrated and shared those responsibilities amongst both sexes, and invited women to participate in the full breadth of community, working,voting or choosing not to mother, the role of parenting also broadened. Grand parents sometimes step in, or marriages break up and children move in with step parents, or sometimes they end up in foster home arrangements for a variety of reasons.

If we compare the role of parenting and all of its modern manifestations, to the role of nation building, we can see more clearly where the function of government, and its various forms, have also evolved.

The American Revolution was essentially a spouse running away from an abusive parent. Then the abandoned parent came after the spouse and the kids she took with her. It resulted in a massive confrontation, and in the end the spouse was forced to start all over again. In doing so, she came up with a different partner, she called Liberty. She set the rules and the foundations for a new family, and named it The Constitution of the United States. She allowed the kids to develop their own personalities by designating them as States, and then made them pledge to live by rules they all agreed to: Live and Let Live, but remember that God is your Father, and ultimately we all answer to Him.

It was in many ways the forerunner of how most American Families are organized: The three columns of control are God, Family and Community ( i.e., The President, The Congress and The Courts).

For almost 250 years, America has blossomed. Like any living thing, our Nation of Families (States) have struggled, but mostly thrived. We have our good years and our bad years, and we have undergone enormous threats to our survival, but the American Redwood Tree is still the tallest tree on the planet and growing, and though the traditional family structure has metamorphosed, it still produces millions of productive and happy citizens.

Currently we are experiencing a phenomenon: Some citizens are challenging the idea that we need families, nations, or the structures we have relied on so far. They suggest we should all control our own destiny, literally from birth on. They suggest children should be allowed to choose their gender, regardless of what genitals they are born with. They want to abandon the family concept altogether, because they consider it to be a racist construct, designed to favor white men, and to enslave women.

I have spent my entire life under the assumption that the two adults who gave birth to me and provided me a home, are, by nature, my parents…I am being reeducated: That idea is racist and dogmatic. 

Supposedly, only white, privileged xenophobic males believe in that outdated concept. It is OK to give credit to women who give birth, but to assume that any male, by virtue of his contribution of semen, is a parent, is a construct of a classic male dominated and autocratic society.

We can allow for some women to abandon their children, or to give them up for adoption due to financial constraints, and still assign them the role of parent. They did, for nine months or so, share their bodies with the child. So if that woman wants to reunite with that child years later, she will claim the right under the domain of "parenthood".

Our culture strains to understand how it can simultaneously discount the role of family and still recognise the importance of "single parenting". When describing a personal profile for a job application, or to introduce a politician, we say "Brought up in a single parent household" as though that is a badge of honor, rather than a handicap.

But the children of parents never forget their importance to their success. Rarely will a professional sports star, or a celebrity, when accepting their award, fail to recognize the importance of their parents, in offering them unlimited love and support as they focused their energies on being the best they could be.

Unfortunately, some Progressives believe parents are a barrier to their goals of building an equitable society. That too many parents continue to falsely believe in God, in self sufficiency, and in their roles in the development and success of their children, free from government controls. So they have designed the public school system as a wedge, to insert their dogmatic demands for equity and inclusion into every aspect of public discourse and social activities. Public schools are now used as an ideological enforcement tool, indoctrinating young impressionable minds with this New Humanist pseudo-religion.

In many communities, the local laws require young people to attend school everyday, so the opportunity to craft their cultural belief systems is powerful. Particularly in poorer areas where parents can't afford private schools. So the conflict between upper and middle class neighborhoods and poorer ones is growing exponentially as those government controlled curriculum is increasingly dogmatic, pitting conservatively raised kids (many of them white or Asian) against poorer minorities who are taught to hate them because they resist the concepts of white privilege and retributions, of single and non traditional multi-sexual "families" and the rejection of religious tenets.

This process has been embedded in public schools now for over fifty years. That means we have huge numbers of leaders of industry and public services that have adopted the Progressive Pseudo Religion as doctrine. 

In many Democrat governed cities across the country, school curricula is less oriented towards reading, writing and arithmetic, and more towards cultural Progressivism.

Classes emphasize DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) and CRT (Critical Race Theory) which are quickly becoming the basis of not just school and college discussions, but integrated into corporate employee protocols. These theories are deeply flawed, emphasizing distorted historical reconstructions, racist denouncements of white, male social contributions, and crazy LGBTQ recitations of stilted and bigoted scientific gender gibberish to rationalize psychological sexual disorders.

Returning to the comparison between parenting and governing, Progressive folks want to abandon borders, reinvent policing and redesign prisons, and reconstitute the court system into a reeducation system. They believe that crime is misunderstood and using police and courts to punish criminals is racially biased and unjust, and ineffective at controlling violence and criminal activity.

They have no evidence to support their theories other than to suggest the current system doesn't work to their satisfaction, so doing the opposite MUST be a better way.

Any impartial analysis of the state of the family in America and the World would suggest widespread collapse. More and more children are being aborted. Out of wedlock birth rates exceed 40% in America and reach as high as 75% in South American countries. The problem is exacerbated by the availability of birth control devices, the reality that men can impregnate women with impunity and never face financial ramifications, and the widespread acceptance of single parenting as an acceptable family structure. 

Per Wikipedia:

"A 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, known as The Moynihan Report, examined the link between black poverty and family structure. It hypothesized that the destruction of the black nuclear family structure would hinder further progress toward economic and political equality.^"   

Why wouldn't we think this analysis should apply to all of us?

What we used to define as parenting is a cultural mirage. And the idea that a nation can maintain a sovereign sense of identity, is likewise nearly gone. It would be misinformation to suggest that there is such a thing as the UNITED States of America. Under the present circumstances, the states are like children from a broken home.