A not-so-quiet war is being waged on common sense. It’s fought not with guns, but with headlines and hashtags aimed squarely at the foundations of our civilization. Americans feel it every day—the creeping sense that timeless truths are now treated as radical ideas by the chattering class that despises everything this country stands for.

These attacks are rarely honest. They come cloaked in the language of “progress,” yet their goal is always the same: to dismantle the institutions that give our lives meaning and our society strength. They want you to believe that up is down, that wrong is right, and that the family is just an outdated relic. And right on cue, a writer from the New York Times stepped up to prove the point for them.

From the Daily Caller:

The Heritage Foundation’s new policy paper, “Saving America by Saving the Family,” seems to have ruffled the feathers of New York Times (NYT) opinion writer Jessica Grose.

The paper claims the family “is the foundation of civilization, and marriage—the committed union of one man and one woman—is its cornerstone.” It proposes policies to encourage family formation.

Grose takes issue with the paper for the slightest of faults. For instance, Heritage notes that the Founding Fathers “were, quite literally, fathers: Fifty-four of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence married and had a total of 337 children among them — an average of six each.” Grose objects: “Are they counting the six children Thomas Jefferson had with Sally Hemings — whom he enslaved and who could not legally refuse unwanted sex — or not? What kind of example is that supposed to set?”

You read that right. Instead of grappling with the crisis of family collapse in America, the immediate response is a disingenuous smear. The mental gymnastics here are truly something to behold. Jessica Grose wasn’t interested in a good-faith debate; she wanted a cheap “gotcha” by using Thomas Jefferson’s personal sins to discredit a timeless principle. It’s a cheap, transparent tactic, and frankly, it’s pathetic.

Heritage’s point was simple and obvious: the men who built this nation knew that family and legacy were paramount. To twist that into an endorsement of long-past sins is a deliberate act of intellectual sabotage. This outburst reveals the left’s true agenda. They will go to absurd lengths to undermine something as fundamental as marriage and raising children, because a strong family is a direct threat to their power.

A Calculated Attack on Motherhood

But let’s not pretend this is about one clueless writer at the New York Times. This is the culmination of a decades-long campaign to convince young women that their purpose is a prison. An entire generation has been marinated in a radical feminist ideology that teaches them that marriage is a trap, motherhood is a burden, and climbing a corporate ladder is the only path to a meaningful life.

They’re sold a hollow promise of freedom: stay unmarried, avoid children, and chase a career. This toxic mindset presents the sacred duty of raising the next generation of citizens as a form of oppression. It is a sick inversion of reality, designed to leave women chasing a lonely and unfulfilling corporate existence while denying them the profound joy that comes from building a home.

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A population of isolated individuals, however, is a statist’s dream. Single, childless citizens are more dependent on the state, more compliant with its rules, and most importantly, they are far more efficient taxpayers. The feminist lie about a woman’s highest calling isn’t about liberation; it’s about making sure she can funnel her earnings directly into the pockets of a bloated bureaucracy.

The attack on the family is not progress. It is a deliberate plan to weaken the American people. They want us dependent, isolated, and stripped of the one thing that gives us the strength to stand against tyranny: each other. We cannot let them win. The family was the foundation of our past, and it remains the only true path to securing our future.

Key Takeaways

• Leftist media use personal smears of historical figures to shut down debate on family values.
• Modern feminism actively discourages motherhood, framing it as oppression rather than a societal good.
• The breakdown of the family unit makes citizens more dependent on the state.
• A strong, traditional family is the greatest defense against government overreach.

Sources: Daily Caller