Jan 20, 2020
Liberal Elites’ Secret Weapon
Marriage and two-parent households are crucial to success in life. Marriage, in fact, is one of the best anti-poverty tools in existence.
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Those who personally hold the liberal attitudes preached (but not practiced) by the elites are more likely to veer from the traditional family model. And those people, disproportionately in the working class, are less likely to rise through the ranks.
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Cultural liberalism is class warfare waged by the wealthy against the poor and working class..
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The privilege of the elite mostly comprises the norms, the models, and the community that support and guide people toward marriage and family. And that’s one privilege too many elites would sooner keep to themselves.
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“When it comes to their own families,” the authors discovered, “California elites with kids overwhelmingly ‘live right’ in private, giving their children the benefit of growing up in a two-parent family.”
Liberal elites’ secret weapon is conservative family values
by Timothy P. Carney | January 14, 2020 04:19 PM Washington Examiner
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America’s elite — that is, the 30% of adults with at least a college degree — enjoy one very particular privilege that enhances their life and nearly guarantees their success. And too many of them refuse to share it.
The privilege isn’t a college education. That merely correlates with what really matters. And the greatest privilege isn’t material wealth. That sure makes life easier, but wealth mostly correlates with the real privilege I’m referring to.
America’s elite have a secret weapon that steers them and their children away from drugs, early death, violence, dropping out of high school, dropping out of the labor force, and so many other modern social ills. It’s called the traditional family: A married couple raising their children at home.
As the wealthiest and best-educated Americans steadily tack toward the Democratic Party, this truth butts against some stubborn assumptions made by both sides.
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