Democratic Party is a broken home
By
Emma Fuentes
August 16, 2024 2:25 pm
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By now it is well established that Vice President Kamala Harris is anti-family. Hers is a stance that plagues the full body of the Democratic Party and makes it not only against the family but an antithesis of it.
Various positions define Democrats in opposition to family formation, whether these pertain to child care, the environment, immigration, or marriage. But their family problem manifests itself in more than their specific policies: How they approach the American political structure mirrors the Democratic Party’s disrespect for the familial unit.
That is, the family is the fundamental political unit — so explains Aristotle in his Politics. In the most obvious sense, it is because the people who make up a polity spring from a family, and this phenomenon sustains civilization. Through sustained iterations, what began as only a family has evolved in stages to multiple governmental levels that cooperate as one large-scale society. Its citizens learn order and charity in the context of the family and then take what they have learned to the body politic.
The second reason is less linear and more concentric. Because family life is so natural to humanity, it “accentuates the political nature of man.” Life in a family is the most natural thing, and so it instructs existence in every other realm. It is not natural in a purely animalistic sense, but as it deals with the human condition: A political life purposed for the common good of its members is far more compelling when one has his own family members as primary objects of goodwill. Similarly, the immediacy of the family is the draw of democratic life. To pursue with fellow citizens the same broad, and crucial, goal is to relate to them as one would to a sibling.
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