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JD? What’s it all about…family first!
“My most important American dream was becoming a good husband and a good dad.I wanted to give my kids the things that I didn’t have when I was growing up.”
Oh… that’s WEIRD
Rather than “build back better,” we must “build back biblical.” Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In 2021, J.D. Vance made some comments about women: not particularly eloquent, but he raised excellent questions. Perhaps the divide in America is not between Democrats and Republicans, but between single/childless people and families.
And what could be more important in this day and age than asking good questions? In Judaism, we are taught the importance of questions. We have a holiday, Passover, based on four questions from young people. And we are taught not only the importance of questions, but to try and ask a good question.
J.D.Vance asked a good question about priorities. He asked, rather inelegantly, whether parents should have more of a say in American politics than those without children. After all, God said “Be fruitful and multiply.” As well as: Honor your father and your mother; You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery, or incest; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor; You shall not covet. And these teachings are the underpinnings of the American Constitution as clearly stated by Washington, Madison and Adams.
I think his question about priorities is a most valid question. But the left tried to hide the question by attacking Vance.
Oh, he’s so weird
Really?
His comments were not an attack on childless women. They were a call to support family because of its importance. Here, in the West, where freedom is meant to reign, the family is the essential building block of human society and the smallest unit of authority. It is the foundation upon which the Constitution is built. A country is only as strong as its families.
We talk about the greater good and the common good when making policy. And we should. So, should the government make policy based on the needs of single/childless people? Or on families?
Without family, there is only a past and present, but no future. Making policy on single/childless people is making policy only for today and the short term. People with children care about the future, generations down. Single people care about the present. And why not? Different priorities. Parents worry about education and safety. Do single/childless people ever worry about stranger danger or pedophiles? Single people live for the moment. Parents live for tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
Do single/childless people care about education? No. Why should they? Do they want tons of their tax dollars spent on educating the next generation? Who knows, but why would they? Families care. What are their children learning? Not just reading, writing and arithmetic, but ideology. Which ideology? Whose ideology? Do single people care if children are exposed to sex education at the age of 4? I doubt it.
What about DEI, or as I prefer to write it, DIE? If government chooses people in high position of power based on characteristics instead of character and merit, will single people really get upset? I don’t know. But parents – they have one eye always on the future. They may care more.
What about child care? Do single/childless people want to spend money on child care? More importantly, do parents want the government to take over child care by forcing women to go to work outside the home, because of the cost of living, instead of raising their own children with their values – rather than “government” values?
What is wrong with government supporting families by making it easier for them to have children by promoting workplace policies that are more accommodating for working mothers and fathers. What is wrong with advocating for taxing working families with kids LESS, so parents can afford to take care of their kids? Bigger families in Texas get better tax rates. Shouldn’t “Right to Choose” include the right to choose to raise ones’ own children?
And now we see attacks on men, fathers. They are too masculine? I heard a man ask why men should be the protectors? Men have been providers and protectors since time immemorial: In most of the animal kingdom as well. The Bible speaks of the importance of men as providers and so much more. And then these same people think it is a great idea for men who identify as women to participate in women’s sports. Did you see what happened at the Paris Olympics to the Italian female boxer? President Trump attacked the decision to allow men to “identify” and participate as women in sports while Biden and Harris remained silent-but they refer to Vance as “Weird.”
I have a feeling if you ask fathers about their daughters participating in sports, like boxing, would they approve of men identifying as women being in the ring with their daughter? NO. His job is to … get ready for it, protect her.
J.D.Vance recently said:
“I know the media wants to attack me and wants me to back down on this, Megyn, but the simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way.
“There’s a deeper point here, Megyn. It’s not a criticism of people who don’t have children. I explicitly said in my remarks — despite the fact the media has lied about this — that this is not about criticizing people who for various reasons didn’t have kids. This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming antifamily and antichildren.”
As a grandmother of nine, six of whom live in America, I am terrified. This is the first time I have fallen into despair over the future.The Democrats, in conjunction with the left wing media propagandists, who commit the most vile sins of omission, are extremely dangerous. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran will do their best to defeat Donald J. Trump, who protects family and elect Kamala Harris who has shown her anti-family, pro-government, socialist proclivities.
I leave you with a quote from Are We Rome by Cullen Murphy.
“…security isn’t just a matter of raw military power but also derives from a society’s overall health.”
From the Ethics of the Fathers: “Rabbi Tarfon used to say, it is not incumbent upon you to complete the task, but you are not exempt from undertaking it.”
Diane Weber Bederman
