How To Break A Society, Part II: Destroy The Family

“You can do anything, but never go against the family.” – The Godfather

Women are like the IRS:  they won’t tell you what they want until you make a mistake. (memes as-found)

Picture this:  A young guy in finishes high school, gets a factory job paying enough for a house, a car, and a stay-at-home wife.  They pop out 2.5 kids (the .5 is for Kevin, who isn’t too bright).  They go to church on Sunday, and the kids argue about whose turn it is to mow the lawn.

There is no prenup, no Tinder® swipes, no OnlyFans™ side hustle and no Facebook™ telling the wife that every other woman has it better.  Just stability.  Boring?

No.  Enriching.  But this isn’t 2026, it’s the standard from 1956 before the rot set in.

Today:  That same guy’s grandkid is 28, drowning in student debt for that degree she got in degree in the Ethnography of Colonialism and its impact on Basket Weaving techniques of Amazonian tribes.  She’s living in a pod with five roommates, and swiping right on profiles of 6’2”, six figure Chads, trading her youth to chase a fleeting thrill.

Are barbarians people who cut hair in a library?

Marriage?  Ha!  She’s living her “best life” on a carousel of dates with men that would never marry her, but sure would give her horizontal attention for an evening.

Kids?  Such a constraint!

The idea is simple:  everything is made of atoms, and those atoms are the smallest piece that makes up whatever it is we’re looking at.  At the core of any society is an atom, too.

This isn’t the proton-neutron-electron kind.  No, this is the atom of society, the family, a Dad, a Mom, and kids.  Throughout all of recorded history, societies that crank out the next generation survive.  The ones that don’t?  They end up as footnotes in dusty history books.

The most stable setup?  Dad in charge, Mom raising the rugrats, everyone pulling in the same direction.  Young men get wives, which calms their inner caveman urges.  Kids give them purpose beyond leveling up in Call of Duty®.

A society of married dads with skin in the game?  They build.  They invest.  They don’t riot over pronouns.  This setup is so rock-solid it’s baked into every enduring culture from Rome to the Amish.  It’s also morally encoded.  It’s True, Beautiful, and Good. The Bible talks about this from the earliest through the latest books, with not a single mention of gay marriage being stunning and brave.

I told a female cop she was stunning to get out of a ticket.  Shouldn’t have added, “and that’s not even the booze talking.”

But since the late 1800s, there’s been a full-court press to dismantle the family.

Why?  Because stable families are hard to control.  Families don’t need government handouts or therapy apps because they self-regulate.

Enter the wrecking crew.

First?

Women voting.  It sounds innocent and there’s a broad consensus in the United States that it’s a good thing.

“Equality!” the women yelled.  But it fails for a simple reason.  It’s based upon the concept that society’s basic unit isn’t the family, instead it’s the individual.  Individuals don’t reproduce; families do.  An island of just women in a few decades will produce an island where no one lives at all, and when the last two women die it’s nearly certain they wouldn’t have talked to each other in years.

I’ve said it before:  if I was in charge, I’d restrict voting to folks with stake in the future.  How about married men who are net taxpayers, wed to women under 35.  This would produce serious elections with no pandering to cat ladies or trust-fund socialists.  You could make the argument that married women vote rationally because, “Hey, low taxes mean more for the kids.”  But unmarried women?  They lean heavily toward anti-family voting, like funding endless welfare that rewards single moms over intact homes, endless immigration because refugees are like the children they didn’t have that they didn’t care for.

And they really get mad when you go to the library and put all the women’s rights books in the fiction section.

Continuing our trip back in history, hand-in-hand with suffrage came the push for contraception.  The big push for legalization kicked off around 1914, right alongside the suffragettes.

Perhaps the reason that these old battle axes were in favor of contraception was because if sex meant that a man had the chance of being chained to one of them, they’d never get laid.  Look at old photos of those gals, they were coyotes-ugly in corsets.

Regardless, the goal was decoupling sex from consequences.  Fun?  Sure.  But families?  Optional now.  The Four Horsemen of the Family-pocalypse were galloping at around this time.

They consisted of: Women’s voting, spiritualism (because nothing says “stable society” like séances with your dead aunt), contraception, and free love.

All of these are profoundly anti-family.

The roots for these movements are as far away from True, Beautiful, and Good as you can get:  they were ugly, communist, and family-hating.  A generation after the 19th Amendment, Planned Parenthood® rebranded.  Their pitch? Legal abortion and, later, the Pill.  No kids?  No family.  Sex is all about fun.

People who casually use hyperbole are the worst.

Then Roe v. Wade in 1973 led to abortion on demand.  “My body, my choice,” except the body inside isn’t yours, but hey, logic is optional in revolutions.  The result?  Millions of potential families and children vaporized before they started.

Add in the other sacrament of Evil:  no-fault divorce.  Marriage used to mean something and was difficult to get out of.  Now? “Irreconcilable differences” means that divorces are on the menu.  In marriages with college-educated women, over 90% are initiated by the woman.

Why?  “I’m unhaaaaappy.  Pay me.”

Disposable vows means meaningless commitment. Families shatter like dropped PEZ® dispensers.

And the cherry on top?  Gay marriage.  French historian Emmanuel Todd (LINK) called this the final shark-jump for Western society.  It redefines marriage from a “procreation unit” to a “feel-good contract.”

Society’s now officially anti-family.  Proof?  Heritage Americans’ birthrate dipped below replacement.  In 55 years, we went from a tight-knit nation of shared blood, faith, and language to a balkanized mess where the only glue is “we all breathe oxygen . . . mostly.”

Media’s been the propaganda arm on steroids for this anti-family movement. Hollywood has been anti-family at least since Archie Bunker first stepped on stage.  Now? Every script’s a checklist:

  • All bad guys:  White, straight heritage Americans.
  • Women:  Kick butt like Rambo, but in heels.  Physics? Who needs that?
  • Dads:  Bumbling idiots who can’t tie their shoes without Mom’s help.
  • Moms:  Boss queens running the show, because empowerment.
  • Kids:  Precocious sexualized objects wiser than adults.
  • Traditional values:  Mocked as uncool, if shown at all. Religion is shown only to show how evil it is.  Children of the Corn, anyone?

It’s like Hollywood hired the Antichrist as script consultant and he became a network executive. Peak America was built on strong families.

Now?  We’re force-fed “Modern Family®” as the new normal, where Dad is optional and kids are accessories.

None of this was accidental and every bit of it was engineered.  The GloboLeftElite saw stable families as roadblocks.  Families teach self-reliance, morality, and “no, you can’t have everything.”

My new hobby is going up to young women who are staring at their phones and asking if they’re my Tinder® date.

Government wants dependence:  “We’ll be your family, citizen. Just vote blue and hand over your paycheck.”  They splintered us with migration, welfare that punished marriage, schools that indoctrinate instead of educate, and a culture that celebrates “my truth” over “our future.”

The absurdity? We did this during our peak prosperity where we could have invested our wealth and energy to take us to the stars.

We were fat, happy, and gullible.

We were perfect marks for the con. “Break the old norms, women, they’re oppressive!”

Why do college-educated GloboLeftist women buy pit bulls?  A lot of them go after their masters.

Now we’ve got fatherless homes breeding crime waves, women wondering where the good men went, and a birthrate that screams extinction event.  A society without families is a house of cards in a hurricane.

Young men without purpose?  They don’t create since there’s no reason to.

Women without kids?  They adopt causes or cats.

Kids without dads?  Statistics waiting to happen.

The bill?  As I said before, it’s coming due, with interest.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

53 thoughts on “How To Break A Society, Part II: Destroy The Family”

  1. “…(link to my Todd post here)…”

    Reads like a note to the rest of us, but looks like a note to yourself

  2. Good points… but why does the naked woman on Conan’s shoulder have two left feet?

  3. The nitpicker is back.
    Picture this: A young guy in finishes high school
    somthing missing here?

    1. They didn’t hire anyone…Satan runs the show and he uses those that feel offended, like he always has.

    2. At one point Hollywood produced wholesome movies, and wholesome TV. When the Beverly Hillbillies got nuked despite being highly rated was when the rot really set in.

      1. John, Mr Haney (Pat Buttram) summed it up best.

        “CBS canceled every show with a tree in it.”

  4. The 1950’s were boring to women, who want drama and to be fought over to feel excited and sexy. So they created that situation. If the family-destroyers were a small minority, they would never have had the votes to pass this bad stuff. Therefore, all those people you incorrectly call traditional voted for this; all those men too. The actual problem is that almost nobody is traditional.

    Democracy is a fraud, and most people vote the way the mainstream media, which may be a church, tells them to. Whoever controls the mainstream media has a lot of power. No, Monarchy isn’t a solution to Democracy. The last time we had a monarchy of the same culture, we listed the problems with that situation in the Declaration of Independence.

    1. No, not really. At no time ever (including today) did any majority of the American public vote in favor of the H-1Bs or infinity illegals.

  5. I missed this one though: drowning in student debt for that degree she got in degree in the Ethnography of Colonialism
    Sorry about that.

    1. We’re not supposed to notice (((who))) were the founders and leaders of the Frankfurt School.
      We’re also not supposed to ask what books the brownshirts burned, or why.

  6. This sounds like the list of traits and actions that Paul said would not see the Kingdom of God.

  7. While there were multiple forces involved, one you conspicuously didn’t mention was the Every Single Time group. They attacked the traditional Christian family (male as head) by labeling it “authoritarian.” Best seller written by Theodore Adorno (Wiesengrund), Else Frankel, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford (son of Baptist ministers who studied anti-semitism). The group screaming “Down with the patriarchy” wore little hats. The second-wave feminists (immensely homely womyn like Betty Friedan) were almost all jews. Traditional families were more likely to become notsees, they screeched. They all claimed the moral high ground after WWII and their money is still underwriting the destruction of Western Civilization worldwide.

    1. ever wonder why those unbelieving Jews hate? read a little medieval history

      1. The hate began long before that. Learn real history, not the CNN-approved version.
        You can begin with the New Testament. Saul who became Paul was the chief inquisitor, charged with *exterminating* the Christians. Then one day, on the road to Damascus…

    2. And then there’s Stephen Miller, who is in the minority of Jewish people who isn’t a GloboLeftist.

  8. Mr Wilder: Regarding abortion, I consider it to be a form of manslaughter. And it should never have been declared ‘legal’ by fed.gov 50 years ago. That was a usurpation of states rights.

    Having said all that, keep in mind that the vast majority of aborted fetuses under Roe v Made during that time were the offspring of blacks and browns. In other words, for the most part, NOT the spawn of traditional White heritage Americans.

    So, as evil as it was, having Roe v Wade for 50-some years prevented several generations of non-White, non-heritage people from being born, which by now would number in the tens of millions. So we would now be even greatly more overrun with them than we already are at this point in time. Just something to think about, which I realize merely by mentioning it makes me a racist.

    1. However, devoid of welfare, they would not have reproduced at all. I imagine if we were in a room and could make the rules, we could settle this fairly easily.

  9. Abortion is murder. Having grandsons 22 & 15, Trump’s Iran adventure sucks.

    I’m an anomaly among my newer friends here in the Lowcountry, in that we’ve been Life Partners for only 7+ years; they have been married 30+ years or longer.

    Two brothers & their wives are boating for a day-plus to Melbourne FL to fly to Marsh Harbour, then Albury will take them to Elbow Cay, where they have another boat. Nipper’s every Sunday for two months.

    Wish that’d been my life but made a bad choice in marriage, except for the children.

    BTW, they built up their father’s hardware & home stores, plus building supply & millwork businesses, to $100MM+. One bro is a Clempson guy, the other a Chikin. Go figure.

    1. Calm down, lamont. The Marines aren’t landing.
      Trump’s just using Iran as a larger weapons testing range. Hilarity ensues.

      1. Aesop-

        Hard to calm down. Have two ideas what’s gotten into Trump. Blackmail, served Tel Aviv style.? Or, he’ll become King of The Middle East with his Gaza rebuild post-2028.

        Marty Armstrong’s computer says by 2028 everything will become sh*t. That starts this year in March-April.

    1. “dates” should have been the 4-letter word normally used to describe a rooster.

      Just saying.

  10. As a landowning, taxpaying parent of older (adult) children, I think I should vote too. I want what’s best for them (and any future grandchildren).

  11. And they really get mad when you go to the library and put all the women’s rights books in the fiction section.

    You’ve been stalking me, haven’t you?
    But the library is far too late.

    Get a jump on things, and do it at Barnes & Noble.
    And not the fiction section. The Comedy section.
    Srsly.
    Every week for ten years. Multiple locations.
    Eventually, the worker drones stop getting butthurt, just give up, and leave them there.
    Don’t ask me how I know this.

    Bonus Tip: Get a Staff Tip card. Rewrite a review of some feminazi tripe as hilarious woketard satire:
    “This book is full of useless tripe by pink- and blue-haired lesbians exposing the patriarchy, written on a computer invented by men, made by men, published by men, sold by men, and bought mostly by nancyboy men.
    I give it a 24 out of 10 on the Irony Scale of Useless Twaddle.”
    Sign stayed on the shelf for 7 weeks.
    Achievement Unlocked: PWNED Feminutters.

  12. Voting limited to married men or vets over age 25. No franchise for incomes > 300K per year, you already have too much indirect power.

    Issuance of firearms and provision of training to all enfranchised men to encourage their will is done in the state capitols and in the District of the Great Whore, instead of the will of Blackrock, Amy Klobuchar, and the elite.

    No female enfranchisement, no female public office, no female in authority over a male, unless it’s a toddler (and even this with male supervision). No female ‘judges’, court clerks, or jail-guards in male facilities. No female cops.

    Immediate transfer reparations to white males between the ages of 7 and 80 with average incomes < 200K per year. One-time payment of 500K for past disenfranchisement and degradation, with an annual stipend of 150K, payable on March 8 — International Women's Day. (and durn wouldja lookit that, happens to be next Sunday!)

    Immediate criminalization of feminist/women's organizations, including the NEA and the AFT. Ejection of females from military beginning at top ranks, with exception of necessary personnel. Immediate firing of all females in state and federal government, beginning with academia and administration. (And no, you don't get a separation bonus. You get a cloth bag to haul your crap away in.)

    Tanks in Harvard Square, just for the shits 'n giggles.

    Announcement of God's Holy Patriarchy as the current religion and law of the land. Abortion prosecuted promptly. Ivy League shuttered.

    Coverture over females and children. Men legal heads of households, custody default to the nearest male relative; male relative(s) choose grooms for young female brides. Perpetrators, agitators and monkeywrenchers considered enemies of God and nation.

    1. P.S. No franchise for the dads of daughters. They have proven over the past half-century that they cannot be trusted with power.

  13. The remaining traditional families are producing children above replacement rate, while the rest of the country is below. The population might drop then bounce back with a different attitude.

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