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Posted on 11/23/2025 4:31:40 AM PST by MtnClimber
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.
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It is the goal of marxists to destroy the nuclear family. That is what much of this is about.
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Three more years of PDJT is not going to be enough to fix what’s been going wrong at least since the school prayer decision.
Eight years past his administration, with a conservative successor, is unlikely and even if it happens it won’t be enough.
Nobody has the guts, or the votes, to do what is needed.
I just hope when the lights go out I’m not in a city. I want to be in the comparatively safe wilderness, reliant on my own devices, against 1/1000th the threats there will be in former pockets of civilization.
Agreed! Without a real spiritual (Christian) awakening and a return to the Lord, we’re toast. It’s a world view issue and hearts must be changed one at a time. At least a few young men seem to be understanding that. May their tribe increase!
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.
Socialist learned quickly that women's nature as nurturers and sense of fairness made them easy marks for the Socialist scam.
Feminism is a fraud.
What does the Bible say about feminism?
https://www.gotquestions.org/feminism-Christian-feminist.html
I read that NYT ‘conservative’ columnist David Brooks has decided that the time for nuclear families has passed.
Once farm/rural families, now urban.
This jumps the shark, if he hadn’t already.
Bkmk
Instead of DEI offices in hospitals, why not a chaplaincy installed right next to the maternity ward. Encourage the marriage of a young couple when Dad comes in to the sign the birth certificate. Offer a six month supply of formula for every nuptial.
Socialism makes everything political.
Excuse my gloom but being a Catholic, seeing our spiritual “leaders” respect idols, pachamamas, gay marriages, Satan clubs, etc., I am not hopeful there will be any awakening.
Then there’s Protestants, many of them have but a sprinkle of Christianity in their lives. Easter is bunnies and eggs in their windows, Christmas is trees and holly — nature symbols all.
More than half of everybody is fine with killing human babies, but they’re horrified if you menace birds, wear fur, eat meat, or set out kill traps. There’s a pattern there for sure.
The west is reverting to paganism, to savagery. Except savages tend to increase their tribes while we are below replacement rate.
We are toast indeed. Millennials are my peers, I know hundreds of them, and meet more every day. If the latest fashion is to lop off body parts they are all for it. I’ve lost count of those I’ve met, who have done that or eagerly look forward to the procedure. I’ve met professed satanists on prestigious campuses, never mind full-blown communists and advocates of terror. Ditto muslims who think women are property and whores for the taking, and all Christians rightly slain.
Today’s sermon at my church was about tolerance. Very few worshippers in attendance, of course. Tolerance now means anything goes.
For hope I have to look forward to the day after it all collapses. Then, if ever on this earth, there will be a rebirth.
Politics is downstream from culture.
bump
Which is why America was doomed to failure as soon as the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920.
Nothing we can do about it except to watch it collapse.
What’s funny is that if you looked at the Poliburos for all the Communist countries, they were pretty much all men.
Advocate for and Article 5 Convention.
Oh dear, reminds me of the Jonah complex. Not, yet Buttons. Hang on. If you fall, get back up again!
As long as there are individuals that have an idea of what is most important, they will be a threat to anyone who doesn't like politics.
So that "politicization of everything" means the removal of politics from human life.
Not sure the original author sees it this way.
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