Henry Dampier

State-national entitlement programs compete with the family as an organizing principle.

For nation-states to triumph over linguistic, ethnic, and religious differences, they had to outlaw the existing competitive economic, education, cultural, and social systems to replace them with centralized, progressive programs.

It is totally zany for conservatives to claim that they are both ‘pro-family’ (whatever that means) and in favor of these types of programs, because those programs were and are intended to weaken the hands of religious organizations, families, and ethnic organizations.

In FDR’s announcement speech to the public in 1935, he said:

Today a hope of many years’ standing is in large part fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young people have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age. The man with a job has wondered how long the job would last.

This social security measure gives at least some protection to thirty millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old-age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children and the prevention of ill health.

We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.

This is portrayed as if it were an unavoidable fact, like the weather, that the centralized industrial system out-competed the older system of home economics in a vacuum. It was more the long result of a series of ‘reforms’ and social changes intended to bring about that end to create  a more rational, egalitarian society. State-managed electrification, collectivization of agriculture, and many other socialistic and quasi-socialistic policies were pursued both during the New Deal and before that time with the express goal of melting down what had been a rather diverse country into a single nationalistic unit, bound together through national compulsory education and into a highly regulated workforce.

What really happened during the New Deal tends to be papered over so much that almost everything written about it for contemporary consumption is a lie.

The suite of entitlement programs and regulations put into place before, during, and after the New Deal have all been dedicated to the weakening of the family system and the strengthening of the nation-state and the corporate systems that feeds resources and manpower into it in a rationalized fashion.

What this has generated is a society in which parents do not feel as if they own their children. They instead prepare their children for success in the corporate state, rather than preparing them to bring honor and wealth to their families. This cuts people off from their own long term interests, and cuts parents off from the long term interests of their children. The concept of self-ownership becomes fuzzy in the minds of the masses, because they were never really owned by anyone — from cradle to grave, they go through bureaucratic systems, under no-one’s control.

No one is the keeper of anyone else, so the people tend to bounce around aimlessly, without much direction, degrading with each successive generation, as people turn to self-destruction rather than caring for the culture. Because it’s not their culture, it’s just some place in which they find themselves, in which they are tenants and never owners.