Christmas Homecoming by Norman Rockwell
If you are a Baby Boomer (or actually older), you’ll appreciate Justin Smith’s reminiscing of
younger days. If you are from any generation of Americans that are post Baby
Boomer born, you should read this as a Jeremiad warning of a possible (Justin might argue probable) American decent into a dark future.
JRH 7/21/19
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Take America Home to
Better Days
[Before the] Destroying the [of] American Family
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 7/20/2019 7:08
PM
Older men, such as myself, surely must sit in amazement and
incredulous dismay at the direction the "Women's Liberation" movement
has taken America, since the 1970s, as it is currently and regularly stated in
many sectors of society, that men's energy and sexuality must be
"harnessed and directed", while at the same time men and their
masculinity are attacked, as something "toxic". Women in all
settings, especially the nuclear family, used to be the harnessing factor, but
now, it seems they spew a hatred of men better than anything of socially
redeeming worth.
It is important to recall that this movement emanated from the
Communist Manifesto and the
teachings of Marx and Engels, and it was aimed primarily at accelerating the destruction of the nuclear family.
And when one looks at the results, one finds it has
succeeded better than could be imagined, as today, America sees large
populations of angry young men, void of social mores, without any direction for
their lives and largely unemployed or a perpetual student; they are men-boys
without any interest in babies, who have grown up shiftless and
violent.
Far too many of America's young women exhibit the same
ailments and social ills, as the young men, while even worse, they are
neglectful of the children they have borne, they are unkempt and in many
instances, they exhibit few of the finer feminine qualities and bear little resemblance
to women. We can call them "female", but as for "women"
that remains questionable, for they are far from the strong women of yesteryear
that helped strong men build an Exceptional and strong America.
Those embittered young men who are involuntarily celibate,
"incels", say that this
condition is forced on them, because women simply will not have sex with them.
Yet, they do nothing extra to help themselves appeal to any woman at all.
Women, on the other hand, heap on an extra amount of abuse and do nothing to
help them change, ridiculing them instead.
Women blame the "patriarchy" for their hostile
attitudes to modern men, and yet women work, own property, vote, hold public
office, drive, have credit in their own name, go to college, have sex whenever
they want and they even murder their own babies at will, and they have done all
of this for a very long time. So, I don't know exactly what the patriarchy is
doing to hold them back, but they've been pretty inept to this
point.
Deny it all you wish, but this vicious cycle is a direct
result of the immoral policies long advocated by the Democratic
Party, in the name of "the people", "freedom"
and "the Constitution", when the exact reverse was the only truth. It's always been about power
and control, and it's a firm truth that the hand that rocks the cradle rules
the world, which is the reason Democrats say, "it takes a village to raise
a child" and advocate the lie that the State's interest in the children of
their domain supersedes the parents' rights.
Currently, women similar to women of yesteryear, all the
good and decent conservative Christian women of America today, are the natural
caretakers of our children, and as such, they also double as the societal
gatekeepers. Throughout history, women wielded more power than many admit,
through their families and the social circles of the world.
When I was a young boy and we would attend family reunions
or holiday gatherings, I recall the interactions between my numerous aunts and
uncles, the great aunts and uncles especially, as the men were sent outside to
drink their beer and spit their tobacco, with the hilarious rolling of the eyes
from the women and their warnings to stay away from the kids and watch their
mouths. These same rough and tough strong willed men would wash up and behave
themselves at the table, when dinner was served, lest the wrath of the Aunts
come down upon them like a ton of bricks, and then they rose on Monday and went
to work, because they had families depending on them. However, today's Aunts
are right beside the men, drunk as skunks or high as a kite on meth or heroin
or whatever the day's drug of choice might be and encouraging this bad behavior
to their children, on the record and fully displayed for all the world to see.
If a man wanted to be accepted in society and have any sort
of decent home life, he stayed out of trouble, worked a steady job, stayed
clean and took care of business in general, with most even attending a church
of one denomination or another, never drinking, or at least drinking too much,
and staying away from women who drank too much. Even being in the companionship
of a divorced woman was frowned upon at one time, although I do agree this was
probably taking things too far, for any time, since sometimes some people just
shouldn't be together; and, these were the men most sought after by women, in
years gone by.
Women were more sophisticated, refined and decorous in those
days, They were more kind and loving and took care of themselves and their
families. One wouldn't find any of them leaving their children alone, while
they spent the entire night at a club, and their houses weren't such messes
that even a self-respecting badger or bear wouldn't live there. And unlike so
many of the women today, they didn't treat their vaginas like a hostage
situation was underway and the only way in or out was through a financial
transaction of goods or hard cash, quite similar to the oldest
profession.
We humans are supposed to be far above the animal world. We
are supposedly better than the animals who mate and then go on their way
without another thought other than surviving another day, yet more often we see
our young acting not much better than the animal kingdom. Too many single
parents are trying to raise children, on both sides of the genders, and it
makes for a difficult situation and so often a less than desirable and suitable
situation for any child, that brings suffering to all.
From and economic viewpoint, I don't see us ever returning
to a time where women didn't work outside of the home, and not many would
really want that, although I know many conservative women who actually prefer
devoting all their energies to their family’s needs and obtaining them through
the best of their abilities. However, with technology making life so much
easier and no one having to spend a whole day doing laundry and such things,
and with food easily accessed at the local grocery store, one would think it
leaves much more time for men and women alike to attend the churches and
synagogues and to get closer to those Judeo-Christian principles of Our Founding,
to get better acquainted with the Western virtues of Our Founding
[Blog Editor: A closer examination of
Western virtues & America’s Founding in this essay entitled, “Liberty
and Virtue in the American Founding”] and to counter the trends
of immoral secularism aimed at destroying the foundation of our families,
society and culture.
It's all about personal freedom and choices.
Our youth are choosing to turn their backs on God and
America's Founding principles, because they have succumbed to the pretty Marxist
lies and propaganda that glorify every vile and evil thing imaginable under the
sun. They prefer the glitz and the supposed glamour that comes with the immoral
lifestyles that are so prevalent today, the lifestyles that bring nothing but
misery, sorrow and a hard death, with one's conscience and soul blackened
nearly beyond redemption. They will soon learn a hard lesson, and we can only
pray and work towards the end that leads them back along the path of God's
Righteousness and a life well lived, with having lived it reward enough, the
sweet kind and loving memories taking Us home to better days, and children held
close as the treasure they are.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
Text enclosed by brackets and all source links are by the
Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
It’s a sensitive and penetrating essay. I greatly appreciate this communication.
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