It’s not that Democrats and the left don’t understand the havoc they wreaked in the black community with their welfare state. They do. But it would never do to admit what colossal failures the Great Society and War on Poverty programs were. It would never do to admit that not only did they not achieve their goals, they actually exacerbated the conditions they were intended to alleviate or, at the very least, mitigate. And it would never do to take one of their core constituencies to task. Much better to leave them needy, dependent and pliant.
This is why the left embraces Hillary’s village. Good conscience won’t allow them to leave this community to its own devices–it wouldn’t be fair to the children. And political considerations won’t allow them to institute common-sense reforms like school choice. Nor would it do to put pressure, financial or otherwise, on folks about their lifestyle choices.
So, what to do? Well, just have the government assume control of the children at the earliest age possible and raise them in the village of government-run daycare, preschool, school and after-school programs instilling in them along the way all the proper values. With any luck, they can keep the negative influences of family and community to a minimum. Not only will the village raise the child, it will raise him to embrace the “right” values and shun the “wrong.” It will build future citizens programmed to carry on the work of the village. In time, we will question why parents and the traditional family are necessary at all.
Barack talks the talk all right, but the walk he walks leads straight to Hillary’s village.
