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Jewish World Review
March 5 , 2012/ 11 Adar, 5772
Breitbart's final message to the Left
By
Star Parker
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If you think about it, Andrew Breitbart's untimely passing from this life, at the age of 43, might be seen as the ultimate message that this man of media could deliver.
Breitbart famously used his media talent, particularly his facility with new media and new journalism, to fight the agenda of the Left.
And what could strike more effectively at the heart of the premises of the Left than the inscrutable death of a young, prodigiously talented and successful man still scaling the heights of achievement, husband and father to four young children.
The fact is that the inconceivable and the unanticipated is the rule of our lives rather than the exception. Nothing more clearly defines the line that separates the political Left from the political Right than appreciation of this fact.
The Left, after all, is about the pretense of planning, power, and control. It's about the belief that man -- political man -- can define and control the world and can appoint himself the final authority to determine what is fair and mete out justice.
The first words on this subject were spoken by the serpent to Eve about the prohibition on eating fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
"You will not surely die," the serpent told Eve, "for G0d knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
In his new book, "Coming Apart," social scientist Charles Murray provides a troubling snapshot of America, showing the correspondence of the collapse of traditional values to our growing problems in economics and achievement.
Murray quotes a 19th century European immigrant to America, Francis Grund, who anticipated exactly what is happening today:
"Change the domestic habits of Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter of the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government."
With today's obsession about the growing gap between those who earn the most and least, Murray looks at what is happening in white America, eliminating the variable of race.
He shows that the elites -- those earning in the top 20 percent -- by and large still have intact families and the lowest incidence of out-of-wedlock births and single-parent homes.
In contrast, communities earning in the bottom 30 percent have had high erosion since the 1960s in behavior reflecting traditional values, with marriage and family collapsing and high and growing incidence of out-of-wedlock births.
Although Murray focuses on white America, his conclusions mirror what I have been talking and writing about for 20 years regarding destruction of black communities by welfare-state government programs.
It's not an accident that the welfare state's growth took off in the 1960s, the decade of the sexual revolution, the pill, and shortly therefore, legalization of abortion under virtually all circumstances.
In this new culture of materialism, the politicians of the Left claimed they could understand everything and solve all our problems -- with other people's money, of course.
They could build programs to eliminate poverty, eliminate the problems and vagaries of aging, and deliver health care to everyone.
Now today, these problems remain, except hanging on the thread of bankruptcy, tens of trillions of dollars in debt, trying to substitute government and other people's money to deal with problems that can only be solved by a free and responsible people.
The Left hates Breitbart for his effectiveness in getting out the truth. It's the same culture that forces me to get police protection to talk about personal responsibility on college campuses.
The final irony is that truth and compassion come from humility, not pride. Sadly, a cold and cruel Left will not grasp this truth from Breitbart's unexpected death.
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Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education.
Previously:
• 02/27/12: Support for Santorum will grow despite attacks
• 02/20/12: Libs' recent victories fuel Santorum surge
• 02/06/12: Memo to Mitt: Whole nation is on government plantation
• 01/30/12: Obama's vision puts America last
• 01/23/12: Court ruling on ultrasound law worth celebrating
• 01/16/12: Capitalism on trial
• 01/09/12: NAACP plantation masters play race card again
• 01/02/12: Youths' support for Ron Paul is misplaced
• 12/26/11: In search of an ambiguous conservative leader
• 12/19/11: Thank U.S. troops, notably wounded warriors
• 12/12/11: Land of the envious and home of the victim
• 12/05/11: Payroll tax cut is another welfare scam
• 11/28/11: Pray every day that America does not lose its way
• 11/21/11: We're ignoring the Constitution
• 11/14/11: The central issue of our time will define the 2012 presidential election
• 11/07/11: Separation of . . . morality and economy?
• 10/31/11: Every American should listen to Paul Ryan
• 10/24/11: Disrespect for life and disrespect for property go hand in hand
• 10/17/11:The right argument for Cain
• 10/10/11: Occupy Wall Street: More from the culture of narcissism
• 10/03/11: Why so many blacks continue to fail
• 09/26/11: So many GOP debates, so few candidate revelations
• 09/19/11: The the last vestige of the triumph of hope over experience is throwing itself a party. They'll be passing out palms-up portions of pity, but few solutions
• 09/12/11: I'll defend Perry on Social Security Ponzi scheme
• 09/05/11: Marco Rubio's Courageous speech
• 08/28/11: The Steve Jobs/Martin Luther King Jr. Connection
• 08/19/11: Blacks' dilemma with Obama
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