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Ms. Black, you are as sad and hopeless as you are ignorant. Quote: “Land of the free? It appears we’ve returned to a time when that question depended on how you pray, what you look like and whom you love….You would think those who want to cling to the past would recognize how being on the wrong side of history turns out.”
Really?
Since everything is supposedly so wonderful now compared with, say, even 60 or 70 years ago in the decade following WWII, perhaps you can explain these things to your readers:
1. The soaring suicide rate, especially among young people.
2. A dramatically-higher percentage of births to unwed mothers, with the attendant, long-term costs to our culture when children are raised in single-parent homes and not placed for adoption by loving, married, couples, as they often were in the 1950s.
3. A higher percentage of marriages ending in divorce. That assumes people even get married in the first place, rather than just living together, procreating, and letting the chips fall where they may for those children when one parent tires of the other and hits the pike.
4. The alarming number of school, workplace, and public venue massacres, invariably executed by disturbed, disaffected young men….now arriving almost monthly.
5. The fact that more black babies are aborted than born alive in New York City? Why wouldn’t you support any measure that might help rediuce that, such as repealing Roe vs. Wade? What are your priorities?
If our culture is so much better off having marginalized, even denigrated, family-centric, mid-century and earlier values, Ms. Black, what is driving the above undesirable, undeniable metrics destroying our culture?
Author Ayn Rand famously summarized the necessity of opening one’s eyes, saying, “We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” You ought to try opening your eyes and mind to those realities and that wisdom.