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.
Or to a parent, for that matter. It is in this respect that the Democratic Party’s failings are most blatant. The public does not have a clear view of who is running the country, and it is by design. After the grand coup of President Joe Biden from the presidential race, the undemocratic practices of the Democratic Party became clear. White House staff lied about the president’s abilities for years and then cunningly replaced his nomination with Harris’s when the chance arose. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has said it must be that “ Harris has been calling the shots ” for a while now, and he is probably correct.
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Although Biden should (structurally, not optimally) be our “head of house,” appearances deceive. Statistics demonstrate that children struggle without fathers, and still, the Democratic Party opts for a broken home: The governing structure that is to reflect the familial unit completely mocks its predecessor. Like the family, the government was constructed intentionally. But the current administration does what it pleases and publicly presents something different. If a family were to appear as some entity other than it is, it would suffer considerable private tension. It would be working for what is outside of itself, rather than working from the good within itself. This administration is no model for the family and indeed actively works against the robust concept of the family.
Perhaps their definition of “democracy” is malleable: It exists as a “ means of expanding novel individual rights .” It is about the “doors of opportunity” we have to “shape our destiny.” By this rhetoric, they deny the immense freedom found in limits — ones that allow the human person to flourish, and ones that the seemingly strict boundaries of the family exemplify. Theirs is a sad reality we see play out in America’s afflicted state. While the Democratic Party campaigns to undermine the democratic form handed to them, there is no possible world in which it has the good of the family in mind.
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