I want to spend more time with this, but towards the end, he sums it up in a nutshell:
“No amount of money spent by government can compensate for failure in the home.”
A sub-issue is motivating the individual family leaders to take personal responsibility to accomplish the ends that are sought.
His premise that drugs, crime, etc. have an inverse relation to family stability is true, but at some point the cycle needs to be broken. There are many unstable families because there are parents with drug issues and criminal backgrounds; but until there is CHANGE in that cycle, unstable families will persist, and will produce another generation of criminals and drug users.
It is a diffcult and complex cycle to break in reality. It’s one of the bigger challenges that face our society.
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This is the crux of the matter. It's also crucial to understand the source and the pedigree of that failure. The deliberate destruction of the family unit has long been a primary goal of Machiavellian, Gramscian Marxists since the turn of he century. They knew that as long a families stood more or less intact, none of their goals could be realized.
Remember their methodology:
Demoralization. The direct assault on the canons and the customs that provide the foundation for a moral existence. Everywhere you choose to look - arts, culture, most mainstream religious organizations, education, etc - all have been corrupted by that Gramscian 'long march through the institutions'.
Destabilization. This is where we are now. Take a good long look at what’s happening now in America. Then dare to turn around and take another look. If what they're saying doesn't square with what they're doing; if it looks like there's an concerted effort to destroy our once Constitutional Republic and replace it with... something else - then you're probably right. None of what's happening today makes any sense unless you look at it that way - and then it makes a perfectly clear and terrible sort of sense, doesn't it? Skeptical? Then check this out.
Normalization. This is the full realization of the concentration camp culture of the communists who have now gotten their hands on the apparatus of the American state. The fate of liberalism's 'useful idiots' will come as a complete shock and surprise to them.
By every measure of reason, this regime is working to destroy our republic for their own ends. Even at its worst, America with all its faults, is a paradise compared to the concentration camp culture of the Machiavellian Marxists who have gotten the upper hand today.
So here are the hard facts with which you must deal:
* You’ve got to understand that you're not going to talk or vote your way out of the tyranny that’s coming. And that’s precisely the point of tyranny, isn’t it?
* You’ve got understand that the people who've now gotten their hands on the apparatus of the American State would rather rule in Hell than live in peace with the rest of us. They will happily reduce Western civilization to stinking pile of rubble and corpses as long as they believe that they will be the ones sitting on top of the ruins. Why? Because a free and prosperous people cannot be enslaved. They must be broken first. Laid waste, just as Machiavelli prescribed so long ago.
* You’ve got understand that we’ll never see another truly free, open and honest election in this country until after the next American Civil War – the Left, ACORN, massive vote fraud and gutless Republicans have seen to that.
Lately, I've begun to understand that the chief unintended consequence of this concerted effort to destroy America may well be a broad and general civilizational collapse. The supporting infrastructure of our current technological civilization is surprisingly fragile. The underlying social 'glue' that holds us all together is also surprisingly fragile. Look at the erosion of one of the America's founding principles: the sanctity of contracts. Obama and his minders have made a mockery of that. When Francis Fukuyama wrote Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity, his sole focus was on the economic outcomes of what he characterized as 'high-trust' and 'low-trust' societies. I submit that Fukuyama may have missed the crucial point: that once we can no longer trust one another in the simplest exercise of our personal lives, than our society is doomed.
America's broad tolerance for the lie - as exemplified during the Clinton years was a hallmark of the erosion of that trust. If someone weren't trying to undermine our trust in our social and financial institutions, then why was Bernie Madof allowed to perpetrate his fraud for so long - well after numerous red flags were raised?
The thing here is that unless drastic measures are taken - and I mean blood-in-the-streets drastic - we are facing a broad and general civilizational collapse. Civilizations the Bronze Age onward grew prosperous and complacent and corrupt - and they fell via barbarian invasion. We are being taken down today by our own now-institutionalized Marxist barbarians - our enemies within. But even they haven't recognized the awful and potential consequences of kicking the slats out from under their own civilization: once it falls, it is not likely to stand back up again.
Something else awaits: and that's the new/old tribal barbarism of Islam. How does a thousand years or more of Islamic tyranny look? Well, it looks like a real possibility if we don't do what is necessary to reclaim our culture and our civilization from our own domestic barbarians.