The Premeditated Murder of the American Family
By Joan Swirsky
ThePostEmail.com
Image: chillla70, Pixabay, License
(Oct. 12, 2022) — In 1959, I was 18, newly married
to my former boyfriend of four years, and
thrilled to be starting my “grown-up” life with the
man of my dreams. Little did my then-apolitical self
know that the close of that halcyon decade had been
preceded by nearly a century of a concerted effort
to destroy the American family, an effort fueled by
the same fanatical Communist zealots who now occupy
the Oval Office of the United States of America!
Now why would anyone––much less a huge number of
people––want to destroy the greatest and most
successful experiment in government in world
history, one which President Abraham Lincoln
described as “of
the people, by the people, for the people,” the Democratic
Republic of the United States of America?
Simply, because it flew in the face of every
political system that previously
existed––monarchies, dictatorships, oligarchies,
aristocracies, totalitarianism, communism,
socialism––systems in which the immense power and
abuse-of-power that these regimes exercised would be
vanquished if replaced by the Power of the People
that the Founding Fathers of America envisioned.
The mission of those other regimes was never ever
about concern for their populaces; rather it
was––and is today––purely about the acquisition and
maintenance of power and control and especially the
immense wealth that comes with both power and
control. Always, always, always follow the money!
HOW
CAN WE DESTROY AMERICA?
The enemies of America thought long and hard about
how to destroy this fledgling experiment. It was
clear to them that America’s strength was a function
of three phenomena:
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A fervent belief in the God who makes miracles
happen, for just one example the crushing defeat
of the thunderously powerful English Empire’s
armies by blazing patriots like General George
Washington and his ragtag army of American
heroes.
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An equally ardent belief in and passion for the
concept of Freedom. Men who knew they were going
to die, and their wives who believed their
deaths were for the noble cause of freedom, all
sacrificed to bring about our victory over the
monarchy that wanted to continue to rule us.
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The most passionate was the embrace, belief, and
allegiance to family, its sanctity, its
strength, its ability to weather all storms and
overcome all obstacles.
If we destroy all three, our enemies reasoned, the
masses they considered essentially stupid would be
forced to rely exclusively on Big Government. And
so, to this day, the socialists-cum-communists among
us are employing––as their predecessors did–– every
malevolent, criminal, and vicious tactic they can
muster to actualize that goal.
ASTOUNDING PROGRESS
The America haters among us have already:
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Infiltrated our public schools and contaminated
generations of students with
anti-American propaganda, as well as explicit
pornography and grooming, even in kindergarten!
-
Lured both Christians and Jews to abandon their
faiths and to
worship the new God of Social Justice.
-
Succeeded in the leftist––and
I believe traitorous––infiltration of our
military and Intelligence
services like the FBI and CIA.
-
Rigged the 2020
presidential election, which
political activist Dinesh D’Souza also proved in
his explosive film, 2000
Mules.
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On and on and on.
Still, the family remains their most desired––yet
maddeningly elusive––target.
HELP
ALONG THE WAY
Sigmund Freud, photo by Max Halberstadt (public
domain)
That effort was generously helped––perhaps, at
first, innocently––by the theories of Sigmund Freud
(1836-1939), the Austrian
neurologist-cum-psychiatrist who was wildly
successful in convincing the relatively new and
free-thinking American public that the genesis of
neuroses, phobias, anxieties, obsessions,
depression, psychosis, and general psychological
malfunction not only took place in the first few
years of life, but that the mothers who raised these
suffering children were primarily to blame. Later
therapists, like the sadistic psychiatrist Bruno
Bettelheim, blamed mothers for their children’s
autism.
Mission #1 Accomplished: Mothers are not good for
children.
These psychological theories prevailed throughout
the 20th century
and up to today, embraced by generations of
psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists
until 1998 when they were thoroughly debunked by
Judith Rich Harris in The
Nurture Assumption, where the
Harvard-educated psychologist and editor of most of
the psychology texts used in colleges and medical
schools in America argued persuasively that a
person’s peer group is the major influence of
thought, feelings, and behavior throughout life.
THE
NEXT STEP
In 1960, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
approved the most world-changing medication in
history, developed by Dr. John Rock, a Harvard
professor and obstetrician-gynecologist with five
children––along with Drs. Gregory Pincus, C.M.
Phang, and Selzo Garcia. Their creation was the
birth-control pill, aka The Pill! For the first time
in world history, women had control over their
reproduction.
For millions of women, it was their own Declaration
of Independence, and a huge relief not to have to
worry every month about getting pregnant.
Mission #2 Accomplished: Now we can be just like
men, some women reasoned, and have as much sex as we
want without worrying about getting pregnant. Thus
was the Free
Sex movement born and a complete
redefinition of traditional morality.
GET
OUT OF THE HOUSE!
Three years after The Pill, in 1963, a book by Betty
Friedan, a housewife with three children, shot to
the top of every bestseller list. In essence, The
Feminine Mystique told women that they
were simply too smart, too creative, too
intrinsically or at least potentially powerful to be
spending their time, actually wasting their time
changing diapers, folding laundry, and—the most
colossal waste of time of all––raising children.
Nevertheless, Friedan’s book resonated with
multi-millions of women who had lived through the
peaceful ‘50s and been spared the suffering and
sacrifice of their mothers and grandmothers who had
lived through the Great Depression in 1929, planted Victory
Gardens during World Wars I and
II, joined Rosie
the Riveter in working in factories and
shipyards to help the WWII war effort, lost husbands
and sons to war, often raised children on their own,
yet kept their families intact. The list of their
arduous and valorous deeds goes on and on.
But that was then, the young women of the ‘60’s
believed…this is now. Look what we have already
accomplished! After that stodgy old Republican
President (and former General) Dwight D. Eisenhower,
we elected the dashing Democrat John F. Kennedy,
with his glamorous wife Jackie and their two
adorable children––all who ushered in the age of
politics on “live” TV.
Mission #3 Accomplished: Multi-millions of young
women abandoned the once-desired goal of early
marriage and motherhood and instead enrolled in
colleges and universities where they pursued
professional careers ranging from medicine and law
and architecture to jobs like telephone line women
to military combatants to firefighters to hedge fund
managers to business executives, et al.
Coincidentally, ahem, an economy that once allowed
men to work outside of the home and support a wife
and children magically became an economy that only
two working parents could afford. Kind of like an
economy that was completely energy independent in
2020 quite magically became one in which the
President of the United States had to beg foreign
countries to sell him oil in 2021.
REALITY SETS IN
But the ‘60s also ushered in the historically
unprecedented rash of violent assassinations––live
on TV––of:
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U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 (age 46),
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Firebrand Black activist Malcolm X in 1965 (age
39),
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Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in
1968 (age 39),
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Former Attorney General and presidential
candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 (age 42).
All of a sudden, the idealized world of the newly
emancipated women was shattered. The world is out of
control, they realized. Is it any wonder that so
many of them enthusiastically embraced (or attended)
the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival, with not only
free sex but a geyser of drugs for the smoking and
snorting and injecting?
Mission #4 Accomplished: Many of these
college-educated women congratulated themselves on
avoiding marriage and especially motherhood, asking
themselves: “Who wants to bring a child into this
world?”
ONLY
A FEW YEARS LATER
In 1971, Gloria Steinem––“We are becoming the men we
wanted to marry” ––founded the first national
feminist magazine, Ms.,
along with founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin and
others.
Its message, as Pogrebin said on TV, was to spare
women the dire fate of talking to their friends
about laundry detergents. This and other angry
feminist messages inspired an entire generation of
women to use The Pill, defer marriage, go to
college, pursue careers, and not even contemplate
marriage or motherhood until their early- or
mid-thirties, when their biological clocks started
ticking quite loudly.
Mission #5 Accomplished: The traditional nuclear
family was being dismantled by a new generation of
women who bought into the notion that making money
was infinitely more satisfying, meaningful, and
important than raising children.
MARRIAGE OUT––NOW BABIES OUT!
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2
decision in Roe v.
Wade that all women had a “right” to an
abortion. To this day, that decision is the Holy
Grail of millions of women who believe that “my
body, my choice” starts after they’ve
had unprotected sex and gotten pregnant with a baby
they don’t want.
In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe
v. Wade and sent the decision for abortion back
to each individual state. Today, every woman in the
United States who wants an abortion can get an
abortion, although some may have to endure the
inconvenience of traveling to another state…forget
about the inconvenience their embryos face of a
death sentence!
Mission #6 Accomplished: The once-most-cherished
accomplishment of both men and women—to be the
parent of a newborn baby––was effectively reduced to
ending that baby’s life in utero. And today, in some
states, abortion exists right
up to the moment a full-term baby is delivered, and,
believe it or not, in California, even
up to the time a healthy thriving baby is 28 days
old!
THE
TICKING CLOCK
But uh-oh. After graduating from college and
laboring in the workforce for over a decade,
millions of women realized that this money-making
thing wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. But
looking for a good man––after stepping on their
necks on the way up the ladder––was even more
problematic.
Nevertheless, the new social phenomenon of women
marrying in their mid-thirties and older took hold,
and not coincidentally gave rise to a booming
in-vitro-fertilization industry, as millions of
these new brides learned that conceiving and
carrying a child after the age of 35 was both a “high-risk” and extremely
pricey enterprise.
Mission #7 Accomplished: Take the joy out of
intimacy and sex, make it a mechanical act, and
further erode both marriage and the family at the
same time.
BUT
WHAT ABOUT MY CAREER?
The modern women had been told by the influencers of
the day that they could “have it all” –– marriage,
children, and career. Since they wanted it all, they
bought it!
Some women were lucky to have their mothers or
mothers-in-law or even young grandmothers volunteer
to raise their children, and a rare few could afford
expensive nannies.
But most women had to rely on another industry that
boomed like no other––the daycare business––where
mothers dropped off their infants, babies, toddlers,
and preschoolers to caregivers who tended up to 20
or more children at a time. This meant that for the
entire day, paid workers made sure that those
children were safe and fed, but not necessarily
held, loved, comforted, taught, or nurtured.
However, this still allowed the mothers of these
infants, babies, toddlers, and preschoolers to brag
that the hour or so they spent with their child at
the end of a day––in which both mother and child
were exhausted––was, ahem, “quality time.”
In addition, these “older” mothers, already guilty
about the protracted hours away from their children,
strove to be “friends” with their kids, praising
them for, um, waking up in the morning, even smoking
pot with them, and, in essence, abandoning the
traditional role of the parent who teaches right and
wrong, good and bad, proper behavior, et al.
Mission #8 Accomplished: Women out of the home,
children being raised by strangers, the American
family being dismantled piece by piece.
THE
GENIUS STEVE FACTOR
Two geniuses…Steve Case, the founding CEO of America
Online (AOL) in 1983 (which really took off in the
‘90s), and Steve Jobs, who invented, created,
introduced the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010.
No need to elaborate on the degree to which these
geniuses totally eliminated face-to-face
communication and succeeded in riveting both parents
and children to all the tantalizing distractions on
these electronic devices that separate people and
depersonalize intimate relationships, especially
meaningful communication between parents and
children.
Mission #9 Accomplished: Family concerns take a
backseat to beeping texts, sexy emojis, Facebook
invitations, Instagram images, Hollywood gossip, and
horrifically graphic porn sites, which even savvy
eight-year-olds can access with ease.
Worse, this has given rise to an entire generation
of sociopaths who, understandably, have little or no
human empathy, given the largely robotic care they
received, combined with their toxic schooling and
intimate “relationships” with their electronic
devices.
Also, a remarkably fragile generation. When parents
fear that “everything children see, do, eat, hear,
and lick could hurt them,” write Lenore
Skenazy and Jonathan Haidt in “The
Fragile Generation,” children are left “more
fragile, more easily offended, and more reliant on
others.” Safe spaces, anyone?
EMBOLDENED PSYCHOPATHS
With all this success, it is no wonder that the
lunatics who are running the insane asylum that is
America today have inflicted their warped vision of
the world on a tremendous number of people, thanks
largely to a corrupt leftist media who are literally
paid––see Media
Whores––to carry these sick messages
24/7.
“YOU
DON’T HAVE TO BE THERE”
And now we have an ad––since removed and eliminated
from every search engine––that shows a child
laughing and sharing an experience with her clearly
delighted mother. Both are on iPads communicating
long distance. The ad ends with a voice telling the
mother: “You Don’t Have to Be There.”
Right. The mother doesn’t have to be there to raise
and love and comfort and teach and tuck her child in
at night, and the father doesn’t have to be there,
either. Only Big Government should raise their child
to be a good little obedient Communist. That’s the
message!
Mission #10 Accomplished: Father never mentioned,
mother out of the picture, the actual premeditated
murder of the American family.
I rest my case.
Joan
Swirsky is a New York-based journalist and author.
Her website is www.joanswirsky.com,
and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.