So far this blog has been an
investigation of the origins of the Progressive movement in the United States.
The goal of progressives is to integrate big business and big government for
the purpose of managing people who they believe are unable to think for
themselves. One of the tools that the progressives have used over the last
century is to pit groups of people against each other and to make these “minority”
groups believe that they are victims of some kind of repression. One of these
groups, in reality, contains the majority of the nation’s population is women.
The last few posts have followed a
history of how progressives have attempted and succeeded in manipulating women
to deny their purpose on Earth, being female. When one looks at nature, of
which humans are a part, the basic purpose of the female in the species is to
bear offspring. Somehow the progressives have convinced women that this purpose
is secondary. Women have been encouraged to deny their sexuality in favor of
career and desire to be “equal” to men. Many women of today would look on this
last statement as sexist.
Granted, if a woman chooses to
enter the work force and is working side by side with a man doing work that is
of value to an employer, that employer should pay her according to her value.
She should not be paid less for doing the same quality of work. For the most
part the wage discrimination between men and women has gone away. However, if a
woman is dissatisfied with her earnings, she has the ability to leave the
employment where she is being discriminated against and work somewhere else or
start her own business.
During the 1960s the government
passed legislation to even the playing field between men and women. The Equal
Pay Act of 1963 barred employers from paying women less than men who were doing
the same job. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 granted women the same civil
protections as African-Americans. Both of these laws are redundant because the
Fourteenth Amendment of the United States had already granted equal protection
under the law to all people in the nation. If people would read the
Constitution and understand its spirit, they would see this to be true.
The National Organization of Women
was founded in 1966. This group stood up against issues that “prevented” women
from enjoying equality of opportunity and freedom of choice. This group was
responding to suburban housewives who felt trapped in their domestic roles. An
anti-progressive response to this would be that women have never been trapped.
They entered into the marriage contract as a willing participant. They should
be mature enough to know that Cinderella and Snow White are ideals that the
real world will never live up to. Rather than being in constant battle with
their husbands, they should cast aside the role of victim that has been placed
on them by the progressives and work alongside their husbands so they both can
be successful.
The new feminism of the 1970s even
went so far as to reject marriage, the traditional family unit, and
heterosexual sex. They opened their own businesses, started their own
publications, created centers to aid victims of rape and abuse, founded women’s
health clinics (abortion clinics), and day care centers. The artificial “Battle
of the Sexes” became a driving force behind the women’s movement during this
period. All of this was brought about from the denial of a woman’s basic
purpose as a human being, reproduction and motherhood
Motherhood was looked down upon.
Women had been taught, in school health classes, that having children was an
inconvenient side-effect of having sex rather than the purpose of having
sex. Birth control became more convenient.
If the birth control failed, then a woman could have an abortion. This became
normal thinking among women. Sex became a handshake rather than the sacred act
that it is. Along with this, men began to expect it from women. Girls growing
up in the 1980s were shown that premarital sex was the norm, and many of us did
it because it was expected of us. Sex should be something that is shared
between two responsible adults who are willing to take care of and raise the fruit
of that union.
Day care is another tool of the
progressives that is being used to drive a wedge between parents and their
children. Materialism is the driving force behind this institution. After the
prosperity of the 1950s the Baby Boomer generation continued to expect all of
their wants and desires to be satisfied immediately, no matter how far it drove
them into debt. To keep up with the “Joneses” women now had to go out into the
workforce to make ends meet and make the payments on the fancy house, two cars,
and credit card bills. Not only that, but Uncle Sam and the IRS were leaning
over families’ shoulders to get their fair share as well.
Since women were driven into the
work place to help pay the bills, something had to be done with the children.
Couples began placing their children in day care so they could be taken care of
while their parents were at work. This has become another tremendous drain on a
family’s resources that can equal or exceed a mortgage payment every month. Not
to mention that children are exposed to school aged problems of interacting
with other children sooner than should be expected
Government funded “free” day care
programs like Head Start can be very detrimental to a child’s development. Many
times as young as three years old children are taken to Head Start programs to
be fed two meals a day, potty trained, and subliminally indoctrinated that the
government is supposed to take care of and raise them. Stay-at-home moms are
taking advantage of this program as well. Childhood obesity is born out of this
government program as well. The children are taught not to be wasteful with
food, which is good. However, all children are given the same portions and are
expected to clean their plates. Other problems with the public education system
will be left to another post.
The women’s movement in the United
States reminded women of their value as individuals. What price did women pay
for this reminder? We have sacrificed our sexuality and our children, sometimes
from the womb. There is hope. We live in a free country that refused to ratify
the Equal Rights Amendment. We have the ability to choose what we want to do
with our lives. However, we must take responsibility for our actions, and if we
do not like our situation we have the ability to change it.
