Why social conservatives decided to push abstractions like community, culture, and civil society rather than the transcendent and awesome feeling of being a parent is beyond me. Is there any portion of the political spectrum more incompetently manned than social conservatism?

I’m not religious and the non-religious people I know who have kids all agree that it is an incredible consciousness-altering experience more meaningful than anything else. This makes evolutionary psychology sense. Yet, social conservatives talk about boring civil society.

Perhaps they used to talk about the importance of children but then got duped by the Tocquevillian fiction that sitting in a Moose Lodge was awesome.

Partly inspired by @RichardHanania