{"id":2004,"date":"2021-11-09T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2021-11-09T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T13:26:10","slug":"parents-are-taking-back-their-authority-republicans-can-either-get-on-board-or-get-out-of-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/parents-are-taking-back-their-authority-republicans-can-either-get-on-board-or-get-out-of-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Are Taking Back Their Authority; Republicans Can Either Get On Board or Get Out of the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

From my latest at The Federalist<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Providence has given parents the awesome responsibility to raise and provide for the well-being of their children. Like any true responsibility,\u00a0it comes with the authority to carry it out<\/a>. When parents are unable to fulfill those responsibilities alone, they delegate. For example, if parents cannot reliably protect their household from murderers, rapists, and robbers, they collaborate with institutions that can. If they cannot adequately educate their children alone, they enlist the help of teachers.\u00a0This delegation is ultimately why any and every government institution exists<\/a>: to assist families in some way or another.<\/p>\n

It is precisely this authority Democrat Terry McAuliffe\u00a0openly tried to usurp<\/a>. As a result, the election became a referendum on\u00a0whether children belong to the state<\/a>. Enough parents were willing to say \u201cno\u201d that a blue state turned red overnight.<\/p>\n

Parents can be tricked into delegating their authority to the unfit if they can plausibly tell themselves their children will be fine. The public school system is proof enough of that. But the past couple of years have rapidly eroded that plausibility. We\u2019ve seen schools forcibly cover children\u2019s faces and isolate them from friends over an illness that poses virtually no threat to them. Remote learning also exposed their curriculum to an extent most parents had never witnessed before. The promotion of sexual degeneracy by schools is likewise coming home to roost\u00a0more and more often<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also\u00a0not just Virginia<\/a>\u00a0and not just the schools. Our state and federal governments have spent two years devastating our economy, stripping our stores bare, and inflating our currency, making it harder than ever to care for our children. Our media has spent even longer lying to us about all this and more, and it is only doubling down on censorship for the sake of our elites.\u00a0Worst of all, the Biden-Harris administration has tried to threaten our families with destitution unless we submit to vaccines whose risks often far outstrip any potential benefit.<\/p>\n

These are not things parents will forget\u2014especially when committed by those to whom we delegated our authority for the sake of our children. There are also limits to how long any parent is willing to simply wait and hope for improvement before taking action for our children\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n

You can read the whole thing here<\/a>.\u00a0 And anyone coming here from The Federalist can comment below if you’re so inclined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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