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Benjamin L. Mabry's avatar

Keep in mind that the "Right" is a catch-all category for people who aren't part of the current ruling paradigm. Rightism includes libertarians, populists, Burkean conservatives, Neo-Cons, rural traditionalists, "I thought the leopards wouldn't eat my face," the "wrong" type of leftists who get kicked off the farm, and so forth. For a lot of these people, family values is a dog-whistle for their coalitions and not an honestly-held principle.

On top of that, I think you're mistaking the culture-ways of Charles Murray's "Belmont" upper-middle-class with personal virtue. Belmont doesn't get divorced because they're high-agency, low-time-preference status and wealth chasers, and divorce is expensive and messy. Belmont marriage is a business proposition, and not the same thing as Christian Matrimony. We need to disentangle the way that marriage is used as a socio-economic tool for accumulation (which we do, also, let's be honest), versus marriage as a way of life that prioritizes the procreative married life as a good-in-itself. In other words, distinguish between Darel Paul's "blue model" marriage, "red model" marriage, and "creole model" marriage.

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Paul Perrone's avatar

Finally got the opportunity to read and then watch the Royal Marines video. I noticed that they had at least one woman in the video and I suspect that women are allowed in the Royal Marines. Another institution that will eventually rot from the inside. I graduated from West Point in 1976 just before the first female cadets were allowed in. From all that I hear things there have gone downhill.

Places where men can learn to be men by other men have been replaced by the secular elites who for the vast majority of them will not suffer the consequences of their progressiveness.

All this returns us to Genesis where God told Eve that one of her curses would be for her to desire her husband’s position, but that he would rule over her. The other part of Genesis which many times gets missed is where God tells the serpent (satan) that he would put enmity between him and the woman. Why do God have to do that - because the woman had become in league with satan. It appears that many women today - with the help of evil men - have embraced being in league with Satan.

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