CULTURALLY
The Left’s assault on Rhode Island families is decades old. The great American “pursuit of happiness” begins with a safe, prosperous, and optimistic family environment … yet, Ocean State lawmakers have continually undermined these pillars of happiness. Here’s how:
Many Americans are suffering from a cultural identity crisis. Political correctness and pop culture are pressuring vulnerable people to identify with some victim group, encouraging them to identify with their weaknesses and insecurities.
These contrived victim groups then claim and demand new “rights” be afforded to them … and all too often, governments enact laws that cater to these counter-cultural, often anti-family, self-convictions.
What was once overtly counter-cultural, now is positioned as the “new norm”, sanctioned by government. This disruption of traditional values leads to confusion and division in our culture.
Our own government is playing a major role in weakening our own great American culture; these political supremacists believe they know what is best for people and families.
Parental rights are at risk. School board members across our state are advocating that important medical and personal information be kept secret from students’ parents. It’s gotten so bad, that parents are now demanding that school boards enact policies that prevent school districts from lying to parents.
Liberal and big-government advocated believe that students belong to the government, via schools, and that parents often are not looking out for the best interests of their own children.
Common sense Rhode Islanders know otherwise. No one cares for or knows how to make the best decisions for children … more than kids’ parents.
In fact, in recent years, two examples of extreme Left policies demonstrate the government’s warped approach towards children:
- During the early months after the Covid vaccinations became available, the RI Department of Health set up “vaccine clinics” in many schools across the state. Seeking to vaccinate every child possible, regardless of parental authorization, RIDOH actually exclaimed that minor students under the age of 18 did not need parental consent to be vaccinated … and should be “emancipated” from their (harmful) parents. Imagine that!
- For middle and high school students suffering from gender dysphoria, many school districts forbid teachers and staff from notifying parents about that child’s “preferred” pronoun or gender delusions … lying if necessary to hide the truth. Instead of discussing this issue with parents and potentially seeking professional mental health counseling … many Rhode Island schools secretly aid students in advancing their gender-denying fantasies.
There are a number of other important cultural issues that are destroying the traditional family unit:
- Stand Up For Marriage: Promoting and glorifying “fatherlessness”, while paying single women to have more children … leads to increased levels of poverty, crime, school drop-outs, drug use, and incarceration for our children. Men and women who stay married accumulate much greater wealth and live far more meaningful lives than those who don’t marry. (from the book Get Married, 2024, by Brad Wilcox)
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- Eliminate the Marriage Penalty: Income eligibility guidelines for receiving government assistance continually punishes couples, financially, if the were to marry.
- Policy Solution: Marriage should be positively incentivized. A 2024 Gallup survey found that married adults consistently rate their lives far more highly as “thriving” as compared with others.
- Father’s matter: In about nine out of ten abortions, the father is not committed to the mother by marriage.
- Acceptance of a drug culture, including the legalization of marijuana; Oregon has recently rescinded its 2-year old drug legalization policies and will now re-criminalize drug possession after disastrous increases in deaths
- Mask & vaccine mandates during the pandemic that infringed on constitutional rights and cost many family members their jobs. Who wins and who loses?
- The pressure to adopt DEI and CRT policies in government institutions, in public schools, and in corporations … has led to the loss of jobs and discrimination against family members who do not fully conform with woke philosophy or who do not check certain boxes.
- The Left’s false narrative of “white supremacy” is hate speech itself. What hypocrisy … and foolishness … to believe that discrimination can be solved by a different form of discrimination.
- Woke transgender policies – that defy medical and biologic realities – often inflict permanent emotional (and physical harm) to individuals confused about their gender
- Abortion: A ‘death culture’ that glorifies abortion. It is the Left who holds the extreme and non-mainstream views on abortion … whether it’s the aborting of babies in the mother’s womb or even the killing of babies AFTER they are born!
75% of Rhode Islanders believe in some restrictions on abortion. However, the Left believes in no restrictions and openly promotes:
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- Gruesome late term and partial-birth procedures
- Taxpayer funding of the taking of a life
- NO parental notification or approval for minors seeking this life-ending procedure
Leftists also have submitted legislation in RI to once again make prostitution legal … which would encourage child and human trafficking and exploitation
In a 2024 press release, the Clare Boothe Luce Center found in a survey, that “the beliefs and aspirations of young women (largely believed to be the most woke) often unify around conservative principles, particularly those centered on femininity and family values,” regardless of political affiliation
The Left’s #AssaultOnTheRIFamily must end. And, if we all work together and take a principled stand, we are going to end it for them!