The Progressive policies have taken hold - hard - Granite Grok

The Progressive policies have taken hold – hard

We’ve railed about the vivisection of what used to be the common morality of right and wrong, of duty and honor, of a shared work ethic.  Since the 1960s, with the Free Love, If it Feels Right, God is Dead (or should be), we’ve seen the century long fight to unhook our Society from the traditional mores.

And have succeeded – out of wedlock births, binge drinking, drug abuse, higher mortality

Post reporters Kimberly Kindy and Dan Keating want to blame increased alcohol consumption by women on advertising. Using the left’s favorite new word, the Post argues that clever advertisers have used social media to “normalize” heavy drinking by women. This is hardly an unexpected line for a liberal newspaper to take.

An alternative view would connect the rise in alcohol abuse with the phenomena I pointed to at the beginning of this post — the increase in single-parent families, the rise in drug abuse, and a declining work ethic. The Post implicitly makes some of these connections by including its article on alcohol abuse in a series that also encompasses drug abuse. As noted, though, when it comes to drinking the Post elects to focus on advertising.

And then a most important question that we all should reflect on – why does it have to be asked and what does it portend for the future?

The interesting question, it seems to me, is the one I posed in my earlier post: Are the social ills mentioned above taking hold in white America because a considerable segment of the white population has been left behind economically; or is a considerable segment of the white population being left behind economically because these social ills have taken hold?

The idea that promises should be kept, that speaking truthfully is a virtue, that recognizing that there are things bigger than one’s self – all of what used to be considered virtues are just, to Progressives, so outdated.  “Let us replace them with something new and better!”

No, their way is neither new, better, or (how I hate this!) moving forward / progressing.  All I see is nothing good coming out of this (like the multi-city flash mall mobs among teenagers that ended up in fights, the ruin of others’ private property, and a disregard of others.

But, this is the New Society Progressives want.

(H/T: Powerline)

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