Father’s Day should be — as every holiday should — nonpolitical.The trouble is, for the far-left, strong, honorable men are a problem — and not just because fewer and fewer men are voting for Democrats.To put dilemma for the left plainly: Father’s Day is, at its essence, a celebration of what all fathers do as protectors, providers, and enforcers of codes of conduct.
A father is, at his best, a benevolent but formidable mentor to his children and a strong partner to his wife.Strong fathers know there is an actual right and wrong and they raise their children by these complex but very real values.This is why we celebrate Father’s Day.
We are heralding what honorable men bring to families and then to American society as a force of strength and stability.DADS AREN’T OPTIONAL — AND AMERICA’S KIDS ARE PAYING THE BRUTAL PRICEThat should not be controversial, but this is precisely why the left calls manliness toxic and constantly denounces what they deem to be the patriarchy.Men with principles — people who insist on due process, a clear application of our laws, and that there are biological differences between the sexes — are remedies to the left’s current politics.They left knows that strong families in general, and strong fathers in particular, refuse to take a knee to nonsense like boys with makeup on taking over girls’ sports.This also explains why the left has no problem with breaking apart the nuclear family.
Strong fathers are, after all, an impediment to left’s zest for control via dependency on government, as good fathers demand their children be accountable, honorable, and self-reliant.Indeed, it is no small aside to note that instead of having or even allowing a nuanced discussion about the two-parent household — along with the caveat that some small percentage of marriages are too unhealthy for anyone involved — the left treats fatherless homes as simply being a good thing.They do this even though children (boys especially) ...