Whenever you hear a politician talk about a “decline in family values”, what they’re talking about is escape from abusive domestic situations being too easy.
Like seriously, you can draw a straight line from basically every domestic policy in the western conservative ethos and “if this isn’t implemented it becomes too easy for members of our in group to leave the in group.”
More reactionary sects outright state this to be the entire point, the orthodox community in New York waged a years long court battle with the state gov about wanting religious exemptions from education standards, and openly stated that it was because they knew better education standards would lead to more young folks being able to leave the community without fear of not being able to sustain themselves.
Shit you could argue a lot of right wing foreign policy is a macro-projection of this mindset, Kissinger was a proponent of the “school” of “realism”, IE “fuck smaller countries they have no right to choose for themselves they’re just extensions of whatever superpower is their primary controller.” Also the angle that dropping more bombs assists international spread of this ethos by bringing men who’ll enforce this view to the top of organizational leadership within warzones. Shit Russia literally has a policy of the tactical use of genocidal rape because it’ll leave behind traumatized women, some of whom will end up raising traumatized, and therefore more likely to be violent, ethnic Russians for future Russian invasions to claim as irredentist causus belli.
Whenever you hear a politician talk about a “decline in family values”, what they’re talking about is escape from abusive domestic situations being too easy.
Like seriously, you can draw a straight line from basically every domestic policy in the western conservative ethos and “if this isn’t implemented it becomes too easy for members of our in group to leave the in group.”
More reactionary sects outright state this to be the entire point, the orthodox community in New York waged a years long court battle with the state gov about wanting religious exemptions from education standards, and openly stated that it was because they knew better education standards would lead to more young folks being able to leave the community without fear of not being able to sustain themselves.
Shit you could argue a lot of right wing foreign policy is a macro-projection of this mindset, Kissinger was a proponent of the “school” of “realism”, IE “fuck smaller countries they have no right to choose for themselves they’re just extensions of whatever superpower is their primary controller.” Also the angle that dropping more bombs assists international spread of this ethos by bringing men who’ll enforce this view to the top of organizational leadership within warzones. Shit Russia literally has a policy of the tactical use of genocidal rape because it’ll leave behind traumatized women, some of whom will end up raising traumatized, and therefore more likely to be violent, ethnic Russians for future Russian invasions to claim as irredentist causus belli.