September 5, 2008
THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE EMPTY CRADLE IS THE HAND THAT RUES THE WORLD:
Why They Hate Her (Jonathan V. Last, September 4, 2008, First Things)
What is it about Sarah Palin that convinced so much of the left to objectify and assault her so quickly, and with such manifest maliciousness? There are many reasons, but four of them stick out in particular, each having to do not with Palin’s politics, but with her family.1) Trig Palin’s Down’s Syndrome is a challenge to their ideas about what represents worthwhile life. The fact that this Down’s baby was carried to term and not aborted is statement that his life has the same value as all life. [...]
2) Which leads, of course, to abortion. Palin’s family is a double-rebuke to the culture of abortion. First, there’s Palin’s decision not to kill Trig because he has Trisomy 21. Then there is seventeen-year-old Bristol Palin’s decision to not to kill her baby.
Contrast this with Barack Obama’s statement that he would keep abortion legal so that if one of his daughters were to “make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” [...]
4) Finally, there’s the fertility. The Palin family’s five children would have been unexceptional forty years ago, but today constitute something of a fertility freak show. They’re the type of people for whom the epithet “breeder” was invented.
The most important thing to recognize about the Left's demographysteria is that they're right to be terrified, the Brights are losing the Darwinian struggle they so devoutly believe in. Is it any wonder that they want the magical Unicorn Rider to lead them away from the American reality to the promised Enlightenment utopia?
