In an online thread about the ravages of poverty, someone wrote that “fatherlessness, engineered by Democrats, was an even bigger problem than poverty.

 

Dear Tig,

In a Facebook thread about the lockstep relationship between “poverty and psycho-social dysfunction,“ someone wrote that “fatherlessness, engineered by Democrats, was an even bigger problem than poverty.”

I’m not going to attempt a pie chart for allocating “percentages of responsibility,” but the culture of black fatherlessness (while explainable) does exhibit some measure of causative relationship with the welfare state’s facilitation of irresponsible reproduction, and all the predictable dysfunction that brings in tow.

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The situation is so complex that most people will (understandably) drop out of “the conversation” before the “issues” and “questions” are even properly framed.

In the end, “more money” (at least when “thrown” indiscriminately at “the culture of unparented poverty”) does provide a kind of consolation prize — maybe even a necessary consolation prize.

But don’t expect the welfare state to be anything more than an ever-recycling, neverendingly circuitous stopgap measure.

Although everything - including culture - costs money, culture is priceless.

Without culture - and without “loving family culture” at the center - the chances are (insurmountably?) high that “more money” pumped into the current system will be spent on hedonistic pursuit and all its glitzy trappings: sexual rutting, recreational drugs, alcohol, jewelry, misogynistic hip-hop posing and “the high life.”

We have a problem, Houston.