“And ‘Parent’?” questioned the D.H.C.

    There was an uneasy silence. Several of the boys blushed. They had not yet learned to draw the significant but very fine distinction between smut and pure science. One, at last, had the courage to raise a hand.

    “Human beings used to be …” he hesitated; the blood rushed to his cheeks. “Well, they used to be viviparous.”

    “Quite right.” The Director nodded approvingly.

    “And when the babies were decanted …”

    “Born,” came the correction.

    “Well, then they were the parents – I mean, not the babies, of course; the other ones.” The poor boy was overwhelmed with confusion.

    “In brief,” The Director summed up, “the parents were the father and the mother.” The smut that was really science fell with a crash into the boys’ eye avoiding silence. “Mother,” he repeated loudly rubbing in the science; and, leaning back in his chair, “These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But most historical facts are unpleasant.” …

“For you must remember that in those days of gross viviparous reproduction, children were brought up by their parents and not in State Conditioning Centres.”

-          Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

            There is a cultural battle in this country and the outcome appears to be an inevitable victory for the Conservative/Religious Right and I am not talking about the Second Coming. The truth lies in America’s demographic makeup and the simple numbers of reproduction. There is a 41% fertility gap between secular and religious people and political conservatives have an average of near 80% more kids than secular liberals (Arthur Brooks of Syracuse University). Combine these numbers with the facts that children tend to believe as their parents do and that the frequency with which a person attends a religious service is a top indicator in how people tend to vote and you arrive at a bleak future for the left. (Of course the future is always bleak for a political ideology that devalues human life by making the cornerstone of its agenda abortion on demand.)

            Unfortunately, now remember that I conditioned my prediction of victory with the word “appears.” The left is not unaware of its statistically sterile existence and it has prepared for the future. If the other side has more children, then they simply need to be taken and reeducated. Who can debate the crushing liberal bend of America’s public schools? The examples are endless and I am not here to right a book, but a blog. However, consider the “That’s a Family” video being shown to third graders about homosexual couples, or when a Massachusetts judge ordered the gay agenda taught to kindergarten children without parental notification, as "the rights of religious freedom and parental control over the upbringing of children … would undermine teaching and learning…" (Another recent survey by the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard has reported that 8% of high school parents and 4% of middle school parents nationwide approve of schools teaching “that homosexuality is acceptable”) Also never forget how doubting Darwin is a mortal sin in public schools or how American history must always be portrayed negatively, and never dare mention anything about that Nazarene carpenter around Christmas.

            Has the left’s strategy worked?  Once our public schools have had their way and America’s children leave the public university they are much more ready to embrace the left, Britney kissing Madonna, and voting “properly,” while most will attend church less and about a third will never attend regularly again.

Today from the far left in Venezuela:

All schools, public and private, must admit state inspectors and submit to the government’s new educational system, or be closed and nationalized, with the state taking responsibility for the education of their children, Chavez said.

A new curriculum will be ready by the end of this school year, and new textbooks are being developed to help educate “the new citizen,” said Chavez’s brother and education minister Adan Chavez, who joined him in a televised ceremony at the opening of a public school in the eastern town of El Tigre.

-Sep 17 12:52 PM US/Eastern
By IAN JAMES
Associated Press Writer

            That may be all the way down in Communist Venezuela, but don’t forget today we have our Presidential frontrunner who believes It Takes a Village.

Thanks,

Tim