The Assault on Family: How Society is Losing its Most Important Institution

Truth with Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy

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🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this episode of The Vivek Show, host Vivek Ramaswamy discusses the importance of the family as a governing institution with guest Terry Schilling from the American Principles Project. They explore the progressive assault on the family, the decline in marriage and birth rates, and the role of family in creating selfless citizens. Schilling emphasizes the importance of grounding institutions, such as faith and patriotism, and the sacrificial nature of love in the context of family and society. With a focus on the societal benefits of the family unit, this episode challenges the current atomistic conception of the self and encourages the audience to rediscover the power of family. -- Donate here: https://t.co/PE1rfuVBmb For more content follow me here: Twitter - @VivekGRamaswamy Instagram - @vivekgramaswamy Facebook - http://facebook.com/VivekGRamaswamy Truth Social - @VivekRamaswamy Rumble - @VivekRamaswamy -- Time-coded Highlights: 00:00: Introduction and importance of the family as a governing institution 02:32: The negative effects of the no-fault divorce regime 04:55: Progressive assault on the family and nuclear family structure 11:45: Family values and fatherlessness in America and the Soviet Union 17:27: Importance of family and grounding institutions in society 23:23: Love, sacrifice, and self-discovery through family and society 29:43: Adoption, self-sacrifice, and the role of parents in guiding their children Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We conservatives were pretty good at railing against big government and for good reasons.
0:13.2	I think the government has proven to be disastrous in creating the conditions for our economic
0:18.4	collapse in recent years, for cultural poison emerging in American life and for even oppressing and I will use
0:26.5	that word oppressing their own language at the other side the will of everyday Americans
0:32.2	in determining how we're governed.
0:34.0	But I think one of the areas where we don't do well enough
0:37.0	is by talking about what we do want to see
0:42.0	in ordering our society if it's not going to be government.
0:45.6	It's actually going to be the theme of the discussion today. We're going to talk on the
0:50.5	podcast today with a very thoughtful guy about the best known governing institution
0:56.5	to mankind. That is the family. Aristotle actually believed that you could not actually be part of a broader polity if you are not first part of a household.
1:08.8	These are fundamental concepts. I think there's something about human nature that says part of my identity, yes, is believing in a God, you may say, believing that you're a citizen of a nation.
1:19.4	I think these things are an important part of our American identity about our individual identity
1:24.5	that we lack today.
1:26.6	But part of my identity is grounded in the fact that I am a member of this family, the two parents who brought me into this world.
1:35.0	That too is part of what grounds us.
1:38.0	And I think it's a big part of what we've lost.
1:40.0	Part of the reason it feels like we're lost in the desert in America today is that we've not only lost our sense of nation
1:46.3	largely in this country lost our ability to believe in God or do so without apology.
1:50.9	We've also lost our sense that the family is itself a grounding institution, one that matters, one that is worth preserving, not just at the individual level, but at the level of our cultural fabric itself.
2:04.2	That's what we're going to talk about today with a new friend of mine.
2:07.7	It's the first time we're actually having a conversation, Terry Schilling, who is at the American Principles Project.
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