{"id":1919,"date":"2013-04-12T15:29:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T22:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2013-04-12T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T22:29:48","slug":"leviathans-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/04\/12\/leviathans-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Leviathan&#8217;s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Progressive left have a collectivist view of society where that &#8220;everything within the state; nothing outside the state; nothing against the state.&#8221;\u00a0 Nowhere is that more clear than their view towards people&#8217;s children.\u00a0 The state becomes the <a title=\"All Your Children Are Belong To Us\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/02\/06\/all-your-children-are-belong-to-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">substitute parent<\/a> and becomes the one that raises children and instills <em>its<\/em> social norms and <em>its<\/em> beliefs, to the point where the state becomes <a title=\"The State is Mother; The State is Father\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/02\/08\/the-state-is-mother-the-state-is-father\/\" target=\"_blank\">mother &amp; father<\/a> (or non-gender specific parental caregiver).\u00a0 It conditions people towards <a title=\"How The Progressive Left Creates Voters\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/01\/19\/how-the-progressive-left-creates-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\">dependency<\/a> on the state, to the point where grown men and women are simply grown children, and the state is there for the <a title=\"Progressives\u2019 Futuristic Blues\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/01\/31\/progressives-futuristic-blues\/\" target=\"_blank\">elite few<\/a> to take care of the dependent masses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;More often, those who espouse this view have grown more bold.\u00a0 Melissa Harris-Perry, a pseudo-scientist and talking head at MSNBC, has boldly proclaimed that all our children belong to the collective, that is, Leviathan:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/120712\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Succinctly, she states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We haven&#8217;t had a very collective notion of these are our children&#8230; we have to break through our kinda the private idea that kids belong to their parents or that kids belong to their family and recognize that kids belong to their communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Oh, the perpetual irony: Those who claim that the &#8220;<a title=\"Gender Democracy\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/02\/20\/gender-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">democracy<\/a>&#8221; as the basis for legitimacy of the government, are the same ones who dismiss that masses that make up that &#8220;democracy&#8221; as grown children incapable of deciding anything for themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As the veritable Ace of at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/338948.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ace of Spades HQ<\/a> says: &#8220;If &#8216;we&#8217;re all responsible,&#8217; then actually no one is responsible, and stuff doesn&#8217;t get taken care of.&#8221;  Therein lies the danger, and ultimate failure, of collectivization of parenting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Melissa Harris-Perry has since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/345123\/melissa-harris-perry-doubles-down-andrew-johnson\" target=\"_blank\">double-downed<\/a> on her statement, making it clear that it was no fluke or mangling of the English language.  She has gone on to declare that people calling her out means that she&#8217;s done something right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p>The trolls have been really busy the past two weeks calling me disgusting, evil &amp; communist. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23MustBeDoingSomethingRight\">#MustBeDoingSomethingRight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Melissa Harris-Perry (@MHarrisPerry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MHarrisPerry\/status\/320632079446581248\">April 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The only &#8220;right&#8221; thing she did was come out of the closet as a collectivist.  Sadly, that people like her feel that it is OK for them to loudly announce that they are collectivist scum, should be a wake-up call to those who didn&#8217;t think that that couldn&#8217;t happen here&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/ken-shepherd\/2013\/04\/04\/msnbcs-harris-perry-americas-kids-belong-their-communities\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBusters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Progressive left have a collectivist view of society where that &#8220;everything within the state; nothing outside the state; nothing against the state.&#8221;\u00a0 Nowhere is that more clear than their view towards people&#8217;s children.\u00a0 The state becomes the substitute parent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/04\/12\/leviathans-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[19,24,48],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}