The State as Family

Michael Smith

Tim adds:

I once read a theory about the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. That theory suggested that the young people of Germany had lost their fathers in WWI and that Hitler and the rest of the Nazi top brass were about the age their fathers would be. The end result was this fatherless generation looked to these strong figures not out of policy agreement but out of the faith of a child for his dad.

They were seeking parents.

Modern America is very much like that. Broken homes have led to a generation that is rootless and in desperate need of a strong parent or two. These kids know it deep down. The parent who raises them is usually absent and overworked, and so they hang around on their gadgets all day and pine for someone to act as father (or mother.) The State then becomes the solution.

It is unquestionable to me that the intellectual Left knew that all along, which is why they promoted so many of the things that they did - easy divorce, the sexual revolution, the welfare state, etc.

And the institutions that had been in place to ameliorate such problems - the churches, charitable organizations, social clubs like the Elks or Optimists, etc. have been dismantled.

We know how it turned out in Germany.

Ultimately these younger people are looking for love and approval. They didn't get it and won't get it from a soulless bureaucracy. But they have been taught to rage against anyone who opposes the leftist orthodoxy, and so they continue to dig their own graves - and ours.

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