Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader sees on the new wire that a Brookings Institution/Princeston study shows that marriage improves a couple’s financial situation and increases familial stability.
Haven’t we known that for about 40 years now? Indeed, if you read even part of the transcript of the press conference announcing the study findings you will see time after time that speakers on the panel comment that the findings are not new news.
The press conference transcript shows there is a lot of discussion concerning going to church and how church-going men and women seem to have more stable families when the get married and are less likely to have children out of wedlock. Many speakers also discussed parenting, and marriage classes as helping a lot.
Your Maximum Leader doesn’t doubt the effectivness of classes. But he wonders when the hell did you have to have a class to teach you all you needed to know about marriage and parenting? Oh yes… Classes were needed right about the same time that traditional morality was sacrificed on the altar of relativism and diversity and children no longer had the benefit of observing marriage and parenting first-hand.
Perhaps some of the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans can be traced to a similar root cause. An acquaintance of your Maximum Leader’s just returned from Waveland, MS. He was there to move his family from the Mississippi gulf coast to his home in Virginia. These people lost nearly everything. As they put it, “We lost everything, except what was in our attic. Have you seen the stuff in YOUR attic recently?”
When asked about looters and the breakdown of civil society they responded that they didn’t see anything like what happened in New Orleans. A group of people did loot a strip mall in their town. But the concensus was that the people responsible were “not from round here.” They said they formed “watch groups” by neighborhood and made sure that “they knew anyone coming into or going out of” their neighborhood.
Now these people from Mississippi are not rich by any extent. They are white, black, hispanic. But they didn’t return to some Hobbesian state when the hurricane hit. They describe themselves as “good God-fearin’” people. Perhaps that had something to do with it.
Carry on.
