There have always been “spoiled rich kids”. They are whiney, unhappy, ungrateful, demanding, lazy — and lots of other bad behaviors. A real problem with successful Free Market Capitalism, is that the economic success often goes with families where some or all the kids are spoiled.
The bribery scandals for college is one form of the spoiled rich kids getting unfair help from their parents. Unfair? Is it ever unfair to help your kids? Well, yes — bribing admissions officers to admit your kid is unfair, and illegal.
Free Beacon writes about William F. Buckley Jr. the father of “modern conservatism”,
Buckley wrote: “I like, roughly, in the order described: 1) God, 2) my family 3) my country, 4) J.S. Bach, 5) peanut butter, and 6) good English prose. Should these biases be identified when I write about, say, Satan, divorce, Czechoslovakia, Chopin, marmalade, and New York Times editorials?”
That expansive list of Buckley’s loves tells us something about the capaciousness of his heart and mind. The size of his personality and impact is why there is not a single Buckley legacy but several. …
The fusion of social conservatism and economic laissez-faire may present an intellectual problem, a potential inconsistency or conflict with which analysts have wrestled for more than half a century. It may also be true, as early neoconservatives pointed out, that the very success of market economics undermines the non-voluntary associations of family, church, community, and nation that are the foundations of social order.
I’m finding out that it’s not social conservatism that is undermined by the Free Market succes, but how so many kids of the free market successful turn out to be spoiled.
All too often, economic success allows the parents to spoil their kids, and the spoiled kids do NOT usually get better. Only a few do. Avoiding the spoilage of the kids is a huge deal, and for that we need all of family, church, and school. For kids, school community is key. That Reps & conservatives have stopped teaching at schools , and are now almost excluded from them, is bad for society.
A necessary change is to get colleges to hire more Reps.
Tom Grey - Families, Freedom, Responsibility 