Sunday Smiles

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No, I am not going to dive into the depressing fact that the left is deeply committed to lying about what happened in Minnesota last week. There will be plenty more to say about that in the coming days, mostly because the left is deeply committed to spreading a false narrative in order to further their revolutionary agenda. 

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Instead, I want to write about a different depressing trend about which I have written before: the war on love and procreation. 

I am, despite unfortunately being childless, quite pro-creation. I always wanted to have kids, but it was not to be, at least not if I wanted to be true to my marital vows, which goes without saying I do, however unfashionable that is these days. 

There is, and has been for a long time, a leftist campaign to reduce the population and to destroy the family. Families and churches are rightly seen as enemies of the leftist agenda, which is why every communist government has worked hard to undermine these institutions, going back to Marx and Engels. 

There are no ties as strong as those between mothers and children, and one of the left's main tools is generalizing nurturing instincts that are natural by undermining the particular and personal loyalties that people develop within families and strong communities. The goal is to transfer loyalties from the local to the general. That means undermining bonds we have with particular people. 

In practical terms, this manifests as the promotion of "empowerment" narratives, in which people are encouraged to see their main goals as fulfilling their own desires and expressing their nurturing instincts in general terms. It's why you see so many people who are genuinely nasty to individual people in the service of some vague moral good. "The people." "Immigrants." "Social justice." "People of color." "The homeless."

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How often have you seen liberals walk right past a homeless person in danger of overdosing without a care in the world, while simultaneously prepared to scream at you for not paying enough taxes to solve homelessness? The actual effects of their actions don't matter because they no longer see particular people, just categories. 

Relationships that used to be about love are now all about "fulfillment," which is how you get all the polyamory, polycules, abortion mania, and now women bragging about leaving their children to seek fulfillment. 

That Target can have a sweater emblazoned with "Dump Him" in their Valentine's Day display shows you have far we have gone down this path. No doubt you buy books and magazines with descriptions of how to hook up with people, if you need to scratch your sexual itch in the reading section, there. 

Forget love. If you need to get laid every once in a while, there's an app for that, right?

I'm sure a lot of people assume that this is merely ironic humor, but the fact is that you see anti-relationship and anti-natal propaganda everywhere. You see it in the "DINK" movement, which promotes going on cruises and vacations instead of having pesky, expensive kids. You see colleges pushing classes on polyamory and kink. The whole transgender movement pushes sterilizing children. 

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The goal is to break human bonds and replace them with your relationship with the new state, or preferably, the transnational movement. 

No doubt, people unfamiliar with the literature that spells this all out find this idea absurd, but it is all laid out in the communist literature going back a century. The point is to atomize people. That is a key to totalitarian brainwashing. It's why children turned their parents in to the Secret Police. 

No "Dump Him" sweater by itself leads to this dystopia, but the "Dump Him" sweaters are hardly alone. We swim in a sea of such propaganda. 

It's no accident that the most mentally ill population in the world is liberal women, and especially young liberal women, who are desperately unhappy because they have bought the propaganda. "Empowerment" rarely makes people happy, and it's hard to imagine anything making a person happier than holding an infant as they coo. 

Not even a fine day in the polycule. 

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