Hold the Line
The Movement to Rebuild The American Family
Family Is The Core
“We must recognize that the family is the cornerstone of civilization and that no nation will rise above the caliber of its homes.” - Ezra Taft Benson
The family is the bedrock of our culture.
It’s where we learn to walk, talk, eat, drink, and make our beds. It’s those early years, the ones spent primarily with family, before anyone’s trusting us with much autonomy, that mold us into who we become.
It’s a crucible that refines our character through the conversations we have, the leader we follow, the challenges we face, and the company we keep.
The family alone is instilled with this responsibility to incubate citizens, making it the most powerful institution on earth, one that has both raised and razed countless empires.
This power is why the family has been under siege for centuries by forces craving control.
The family endured for millennia, and humanity prospered as a result. But the attacks have reached a fever pitch, and the age-old institution is groaning beneath the barrage.
Why Is There A War on Family?
“Barring a miracle, the family that has existed since antiquity will likely crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself” - Dr. James Dobson
We split the atom, dropped the bomb, built trains, planes, and Teslas, even put a few men on the moon, allegedly.
We proclaimed the aim of conquering nature itself.
It was fun at first, humanity celebrating our triumphs, demystifying reality with science.
But the family presented a problem.
Its very structure was founded in tradition, a reminder of the mysterious nature of reality, and a challenge to the idea that we are autonomous beings who can remake ourselves in our own image
So we decided to tear the family apart.
How could we not? Family is nature, an institution that predates mankind. If nature is truly to be conquered, the family must be destroyed.
Only then can man ascend to the height of God.
But we couldn’t just tear it out. After all, it serves a crucial role in society. What we needed to do was replace it with something we designed, something more efficient, easier to control. Then we would harness it’s power ourselves.
The state stepped in, taking the power to certify marriage from the church.
But the strength of the familial bond held otherwise mere individuals together. The men and women who embraced their responsibility to raise the highest-quality citizens passed on that desire to future generations.
So we broke it up, carving out high-efficiency Nuclear Families and moving them around to build and manage a blossoming civilization.
The family was weak but still proud, anchored by its last institution. Marriage.
So we made marriage itself a target, and began to drain it of its valuable resources: time, influence, and children.
Industry pulled homemakers into factories and offices.
Activists repackaged sex as cheap recreation with contraceptives, abortion, and porn, negating any prerequisite of commitment.
Schools and daycares robbed the family of its core function, claiming responsibility for raising its children.
Courts stripped marriage from men and women, proclaiming love to be the new purpose, having claimed marriages from the church, now threw out the definition, reducing with it the ‘family’ to a mere relic of an earlier time.
Courts redefined ‘the procreative union’ to simply a ‘union’ in their ruling, expanding it to include same sex marriage and reducing the family to a mere relic of an earlier time.
With that, we declared victory and moved on to attack the very gender identities that sustain our species.
Yet the nature is not so easily turned on its head. Despite the insidious attacks, the familial bond is holding, but the culture is in trouble.
The extended family gathers only in those infrequent moments of tragedy or celebration, pulled briefly back together by their ever-weakening ties.
Dads are addicted and aimless. Moms are distracted and discontented
Kids are shuffled aside to obscenely long school days, bookended by daycare and sports programs, leaving only the rushed mornings, exhausted evenings, and jam-packed weekends for parents to engage in the age-old tradition of shaping the future generation.
The family is so busy, so overwhelmed, it can’t perform its primary function as it should.
We Must Reclaim the Family
There can be no prosperity for humanity if the foundation itself is removed.
So we must fix it.
Some make valiant efforts to influence governments, driving legislation and policy that support the family.
Others flock to churches, desperate to discover something timeless as the world seems to spin off its axis.
But if we want change, it starts with us.
Dads, we have to lead. I don’t mean telling your family where to go, I mean showing them how to live. Quit porn, date your spouse, and exhibit strength in your home.
Moms, you have to nurture. I’ve never been a mom. But my own mom and my wife have set a fantastic example. Decorate your house, date your spouse, and model morals for your family.
We must rebuild the family at all costs.
So have kids, build your families, and raise your children. Never stop growing, always be setting the standard, raising the bar, and showing the way. There will be temptations, it will be hard, and some will fall.
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Ultimately, if we are successful in pulling our culture back from the brink of collapse, it’ll be because mothers and fathers like you put family back where it belongs—at the top of their priorities.
Stay focused.