Feminists in the ’60s and ’70s had a slogan that sought to politicize the household: The personal is political. The rallying cry was meant to challenge traditional family values and the expectation that women should be caring wives and mothers who looked after the home. Breaking free from the “prison” of the nuclear family was described as “liberating” for American women.
So-called “student activists” and “black liberation” groups adopted the argument for their own purposes, and protest movements sought out ways to invade Americans’ private spaces. The idea was to make people feel uncomfortable so that they were forced to acknowledge whatever “issues” protesters were pushing. Feminists, anti-war activists, and civil rights protesters targeted citizens in restaurants, movie theaters, parks, churches, and shopping districts. They made it impossible for ordinary families to enjoy ordinary days without being force-fed heaping spoonfuls of acidic politics.
These kinds of aggressive tactics that politicize every part of life have come with tremendous costs. Generations of women increasingly resented their traditional roles as wives and mothers. Rising divorce rates fractured the stability of nuclear families. Divorced men abandoned their children. Children grew up without both male and female role models. Young adults entered the workforce before first acquiring basic social skills normally developed during childhood.
More broadly, society suffered because the space between the political sphere and the social sphere entirely disappeared. Society and the political State are not the same thing. Government, laws, taxes, and mandates come with either the application or threat of force. The political State is coercion. Society, on the other hand, is much broader. It includes a people’s religion, customs, traditions, history, and familiar interactions. Those influences certainly “push” people to behave in certain ways, but there is considerable room for disagreement and compromise. Society is cooperation.
It would be difficult for young Americans to appreciate this fact, but seventy years ago, much of the social sphere flourished beyond the reach of raw politics. Men belonged to veterans’ organizations, bowling leagues, and public service groups. Women volunteered to help local schools, held book clubs, and organized social gatherings. Children attended summer camps, worked low-wage jobs, and participated in school clubs. Families attended church and enjoyed local festivals. Neighborhood functions brought entire blocks of families together. “Belonging” to things mattered to people. Membership numbers for recreational clubs and civic organizations during the first half of the twentieth century were much higher than they are today.
Politics did not always dominate American society.
Nostalgic Hollywood writers have become increasingly fond of portraying life before personal computers and cell phones. When they depict suburban streets in the ’80s, several things always pop out. Children are riding bikes and exploring the world as far as their legs can take them. Parents have no problem punishing kids when they misbehave. And politics is just one small part of community life. In order to drive this last point home, yard signs for Democrats and Republicans are shown side by side to remind Americans of a time when neighbors didn’t attack each other because of their personal political beliefs.
Today, not only are computers and cell phones everywhere, but also politics is everywhere. Schools teach children to become “activists” before they’re even teens. Instead of riding bikes and exploring the world, kids regurgitate talking points about “transgenderism,” abortion, “right-wing” fascism, “white supremacy,” and the “patriarchy.” And toleration for other people’s political beliefs no longer exists. Yard signs are defaced or stolen. Political slogans and Antifa threats are graffitied onto churches, businesses, and even homes.
Several generations of Americans have been taught that “the personal is political,” and because of that, tens of millions of Americans now see every political opponent as a personal threat. When every person with an opposing point of view is labeled a “threat,” it is impossible not to see “oppression” everywhere. Young Americans have been so indoctrinated to believe that their opinions are “correct” and that contrary opinions are “dangerous” that they think it is both rational and reasonable to censor disagreement as “hate speech,” punish “thought criminals,” and hide behind the imaginary walls of a “safe space.”
If only they understood that society was filled with safe spaces before leftist activists politicized everything. Little league games and swim competitions were opportunities for kids to compete athletically — not physically dangerous clown shows for adults to preach about boys being “girls.” Town festivals did not begin with “land acknowledgments” or other mayoral decrees informing the locals that they’re “oppressive colonialists” and “bigots.” School clubs did not obsess about “diversity, inclusion, and equity.” Republican-voting families and Democrat-voting families still laughed together at backyard barbecues. When Americans were not worried about “triggering” each other with harmless words, they could enjoy one another’s company and build social bonds that mattered more than personal political beliefs. Safe spaces existed everywhere because politics did not.
As just one pertinent example of how politicized civic organizations have become, recently leaked training documents from the country’s largest public school teachers’ union show outright hostility toward Republican parents. Without even the pretense of impartiality, the National Education Association advises teachers, “Over the last ten years, Republicans in state legislatures have increasingly turned to anti-transgender rhetoric and legislation as a powerful complement to their arsenal of racist dog whistles used to whip up fear and consolidate power.”
Moreover, the NEA insists, “The right has exploited ignorance about transgender people and our lack of an affirmative, race-forward message to advance anti-trans attacks, further splinter and impugn the left, and sabotage progressives on a broad range of issues.”
The NEA encourages teachers to “name the villains who violate our values.” Why must teachers inject such partisan political messages into their classrooms? The NEA provides the answer: because “certain politicians are pushing laws that restrict our freedoms because of the color of our skin, what’s in our wallets, or because we are transgender” and because those politicians “exploit divisions and fears among us so they can get and hold onto power, denying us the basic rights, resources, and respect all people deserve.” Nothing screams, “The personal is political!” quite like public schools teaching children that Republicans are “villains” and “oppressors” who do not deserve to be parents.
The politicization of everything always begins with the politicization of language. Unconstitutional race-based admissions and hiring practices are defended as “virtues” of “diversity, inclusion, and equity.” Market-distorting corporate preferences for the moneymaking “climate change” racket and other leftist political causes are justified as “environmental, social, and governance” ethics issues.
Our political programmers insist that “trans-women are real women” and expect fathers to watch boys physically abuse their daughters. On this issue, the NEA instructs teachers to lie by “supporting transgender women athletes as part of the broader fight for equality in girls’ and women’s sports” and by “connecting attacks on trans women athletes to the long legacy of discrimination against all women athletes.” The teachers’ unions have no shame.
As Democrats ruin Thanksgiving celebrations this year by lecturing their extended families on why “Trump is Hitler” and “Republicans are evil,” try to remember that this social catastrophe did not arrive overnight. Leftists since Marx have been destroying society and cultural unity by politicizing everything in society and our culture. Democrats have destroyed our personal connections by politicizing our relationships. The end result is that the political sphere — and its enforcer, the State — have crushed the family, community, and society.
To remedy our plight and subdue leftism for good, family, community, and society will have to make a comeback. We do that one conversation at a time.
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High deductibles create a dangerous barrier to care. Studies show that people in such plans are less likely to seek timely treatment for chronic conditions, attend preventive screenings, or fill necessary prescriptions. A seemingly minor illness or injury can balloon into major expenses when patients delay care until problems worsen. For a family of four, a single hospitalization, cancer diagnosis, or unexpected surgery can easily exceed the deductible, triggering coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximums that still leave substantial bills. One recent analysis noted that some proposed changes could push family deductibles toward $31,000 in future years, further exposing households to financial risk.
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Telling us what we already know does not fix the problem…
You can never truly destroy leftism but you can pull them back from their far left ways.
IMO the left needs a reality check, the hard part will be getting them to believe the reality that is right in front of them. They’ve been lied to for so long now that the real truth will be hard for them to swallow.
These are pressing problems that will lead to the eventual destruction of the United States of America. Betrayal and corruption at the top and we will LOSE everything we have now. It’s a shame nobody is obeying the laws of the Constitution and arresting and quite possibly HANGING them for high treason but they learn to keep that away with a bread and circus act and it is leading to serious inflation.
White women and their inherent guilt gene have morphed into a huge, dare I say insurmountable problem .
It’s a male-hating envy gene.