We have the left (media/academia/hollywood) indoctrinating people to hate this nation, and anyone who points out obvious flaws (10 kids out of wedlock, lack of education, raising a family on a minimum wage job, passing on welfare from generation to generation) is painted as hateful (and of course conservative).
I watched that show downton abbey recently and one fascinating aspect was showing how people sanctioned themselves (without govt) for undesirable behavior. A war-widow would be taken care of by the community and while a "bastard" would be be cared for, the mother would be ostracized. Why? Because marriage meant something, and adulterers lessened the value of that.
Even when I was a kid if we were doing something stupid an adult would say stop it (and we generally did), in my parents generation a stranger might even spank a kid doing the same (not saying thats necessary good)-now kids do stupid **** in plain sight and nobody says a thing. My point is people looked after themselves-not anymore.
This paralyzes people and prevents them from pointing out the obvious.
Again, thank you. You make me think, which at my age is a good thing and in the company I keep all too rare.
Values. and how they ply in socio-political arenas.
Something the left blew way back when, I guess when "socialism" was distancing itself from the other "isms", it became important to first, kill God, then kill the family concept. Every utopian scenario from Orwell to Asimov to Huxley, they all remove the family along with any form of faith...and they all end up in hell.
Meanwhile, as you note, man is wired to care for his kin. We are the only species that does so at the community level. We are wired to the "social contract". Widows were first to receive care of any kind by the Hebrews, who were commanded by a very pissed off God. Our Godly compassion was then hijacked by the most formidable of institutions, the Roman Catholic Church and compassion has never recovered. Hospitals, orphanages, schools etc., all fell away from local control and decision making and moved onto a centralized model with one guy, allegedly infallible at the top. We surrendered our right to care for our neighbor. And now that we have as a society fired God as our moral guide, surrender that right of caring to....government.
Which demonstrates man's psychosis. The same institution that steals your money, misues it, lies about the need for war can suddenly be trusted with the health and welfare of those who cannot fend for themselves, all within a clearly corrupt, vote generating environment. I know people on very serious medication for duality thinking like that.
Today, it is a purely political fight and based on a simple human trait. Throughout history and documented in the Bible is there a division of people, one that says "our government/church/kingdom has to look after [them]. The other says no the Good Samaritan is where it's at. But the answer is at the beginning with the unanswered question "Am I my brother's keeper?"
The only problem is the Good Samaritan died when they killed God. There aren't any anymore, it's the government's job. The end result of all social programs is there...a transfer of the duty/right to care for your neighbor to the hands of a bureaucrat whose career path will be determined not by his compassion, but for the exactitude of his widgets. So of course the family as a concept is as dead as God in the minds of too many. An adult suggesting to a youth who is trying to skateboard down my mountainside and across two lanes of heavy beach traffic out of control is going to hear a very excited "**** off!"
the utter irony is that true compassion extends from values, core values about the sanctity of human life and right to the pursuit of happiness. While socialists preach compassion, they reject the values which lie at its core substituting bureaucracy for true caring. The results can be seen in the eyes of any high school graduate in America today.