(Richard Santomauro) – By all reports, Tyler Robinson came from a well-to-do conservative family.
Yet his story forces us to ask a sobering question: Why have there been so many killings by young people under the age of 30 in recent years?
What are the cultural, political, and economic factors that twist young minds until rage overtakes reason—driving them to commit horrific acts of violence?
One possible answer comes from the words of commentator Charlie Kirk, who has argued that the future of America depends on restoring the family.
He points out that children are increasingly raised not by parents but by strangers in day care centers.
This is the inevitable result of an economy, shaped by decades of government intervention, that requires both parents to work simply to maintain the bare minimum standard of living.
These are not flourishing families; these are households trapped in a cycle of survival, laboring to feed a system more concerned with revenue than with children.
In the vacuum left by absent parents, Democrats have turned public education and the mental health bureaucracy into substitutes for family life.
Traditional parenting has suffered. By design, both parents are pushed into the workforce, while tax revenue swells.
At the same time, Democrats fuel a culture that undermines family life, from abortion subsidies rebranded as “choice” to the steady denigration of parental authority.
As the birth rate declines, Democrats have sought to fill the labor void not by supporting American families but by opening borders to mass illegal immigration.
This serves two purposes: an immediate supply of workers and a guaranteed boost in congressional representation through the census.
More unskilled labor also funnels more federal money into districts.
In other words, the unborn are sacrificed for revenue, and the borders are opened to secure both voters and workers.
But the real tragedy lies with America’s children—the casualties of these policies.
With both parents away at work, public schools, increasingly dominated by Democratic priorities, have been empowered to marginalize parental rights.
Curriculum now mirrors the party platform: open borders, DEI, and a cultural agenda that discourages the very idea of forming families.
The normalization of radical gender ideology, beginning in classrooms and reinforced by media and gaming, has become a weapon in what can only be described as a war against the traditional family.
The results are devastating. Generations of children are being uprooted, indoctrinated, and destabilized.
Communities are less safe. Families are weaker. The culture grows more hostile to stability and order.
This brings us to a hard truth: When you cast a vote for a political party, you empower not just a candidate but an entire system.
A vote for a Democrat is a vote for policies that normalize sexualized content in schools, erode parental rights, and confuse children with gender ideology.
It is a vote for activist prosecutors who keep criminals out of prison, endangering neighborhoods.
It is a vote for open borders, higher taxes, unaffordable housing, and strained public services.
It is a vote for bureaucracies and NGOs that enrich themselves while dismantling what makes society strong and families sacred.
Democrats will say they are fighting to “save democracy.”
But listen closely and you will hear policies that are authoritarian, even totalitarian, cloaked in progressive language.
Judge them not by their words, but by their outcomes: fractured families, children stripped of innocence, unsafe communities, and economic decline.
America cannot survive if the family does not.
And the policies of today’s Democratic Party are waging nothing less than war on the very institution that makes freedom possible.
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