Posted on 05/02/2015 10:24:39 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
What really bothers me about Baltimore is the despair in that city, the devaluation of young men and the destruction of the family. Young men who father children are disenfranchised and encouraged not to become a part of their lover's family. They thus miss the love, joy and responsibility of raising their own children. Then those young boys and girls are raised without their father and miss that essential element of their families. Young men may turn to gangs as their only source of respect and survival. How can we encourage the formation of families rather than their generational disintegration in the underclasses? The incentive to pay women who are single mothers may not be the best way to cope with these issues. I think these inner city issues need to be seriously reconsidered by all parties and classes.
I love how the liberals jumped all over the lady that went and grabbed her son off the streets. I think she slapped him some. The liberals say that was a case of bad parenting. However those teens that were looting and burning among other things I guess in the liberal mind that is good parenting.
There should be changes in how we view all of this.
At one time, a girl who got pregnant without a husband couldn’t just go get on public assistance. Society is subsidizing and encouraging this behavior.
At one time, there were great social pressures on young men, who were responsible for a girl’s pregnancy, to marry the girl. Society has become non-judgemental about this, so young men who get girls pregnant don’t feel any responsibility.
There are other changes which have happened in society as well, in past decades, which got us to this point. But I would focus on these as being key elements in social breakdown. Irresponsible parenting, which results in the next generation not being raised properly, drives many other problems.
There are so many men incarcerated for possession of drugs... I simply don’t care what adults do in regards to recreational drug use. It makes it difficult to apply for a job once you have any type of criminal record...If we removed these odious laws, these adults would still be around.
You need either a sarc tag or direction to That Other Site.
I think I’ve been here long enough to earn my keep... regardless of my personal opinions, and there was no sarcasm in my post.
Why? You clearly don’t understand conservatism.
It depends on the drugs and how ruinous they can be. Heroin is awful. But concerning minor drugs, I agree completely.
LBJ started the War in the 60s. Sen Percy Rino-IL and his type modified it with bribes to street gangs and disastrous housing sections. Then Nixon added Section 8 Housing in the 70s.
Coming out of this there were several models:
Chicago had several Alinsky models in TWO, NCO, OBA. Arkansas with newly arrived Hilary had ACORN. But the Baltimore model became the favorite of the Progressives. Under Jimmy, Msgr Geno Barone made it the dominant federal direction.
The key feature of the Baltimore model is that the Progressives don’t fight the establishment, nor kiss the ring of the establishment. No, they become the establishment.
Heroin, is a different story as becoming physically addicted is a given... but one should conclude that most people have no interest in shooting up with anything, including heroin.
The only bad thing about posting it on Facebook is that someone you work with might report you.
The problem with “recreational” drug use is that drugs are addicting. What you might start on as “fun” soon turns into a death sentence.
“Then Nixon added Section 8 Housing in the 70s.”
Lots of press today about how rents are so high. If you took away Section 8 the rents would normalize.
Causes of poverty are multiple, from the adverse effects of urban renewal and public policy but I think mostly jobs were lost through transformation in the technology and organization of manufacturing which created a vacuum for the drug trade to move in. Putting fewer black men in jail is going to do very little in relation to structural changes to the global economy.
I’d say promote women’s lib and then make it easy for them to raise children without fathers by making all kinds of government programs available to them and not to most married couples.
Promote indiscriminate sex, make being gay an in thing and transgenderism normal.
Get God out of the narrative and make morality a grey area.
Make sure that even in married families both spouses have to work to help ends meet and allow the children to be raised by strangers.
Oh! You were wondering how to make a strong family!
Honestly, without faith and the awareness of morality in connection with God, there is no tried and true way.
Even in the worst of situations some kids grow up fine but the vast majority need 2 parents who have religious guidance, who truly teach right from wrong. We need parents who parent and don’t allow the children to make all their own decisions and even some of the parents decisions.
I could go on....
My! How quickly a thread can degrade into the tired liberaltarian fix all of “just legalize drugs and all of society’s problems will instantly disappear” meme. I give you credit for clearly stating you are a liberaltarian on your home page. Honesty IS a highly ranked virtue in my book. The furthest I will go in entertaining your argument is to suggest that perhaps drugs get decriminalized. I go no further in that discussion. Get that out of the way and then what? Obviously since you’ve been a member of the premier conservative website for as long as you have, you can’t possibly be ignorant enough to think that decriminalizing, or even legalizing, drugs will solve this problem presented in the original vanity post....
I’m just really getting sick and tired of liberaltarian arguments highjacking threads, and worse, that LIV lurkers may actually somehow see such as valid conservative view points, since they have been presented here on Free Republic.
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