BCT Editorial – 3/8/07

This page was last updated on March 8, 2007.

Great divide; Editorial; Beaver County Times; March 8, 2007.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject editorial.

“Marriage isn’t for everyone in the United States.

“If a trend keeps up, marriage in America will be the choice of co-habitation for the well-to-do and the well-educated, which often are one in the same.

“The Washington Post reports that as ‘marriage with children has become an exception rather than the norm, social scientists say it also is becoming the self-selected province of the college-educated and the affluent. The working class and the poor, meanwhile, increasingly steer away from marriage, while living together and bearing children out of wedlock.’”

[RWC] Note the liberal bias. If you’re “college-educated” and “affluent,” you aren’t in the “working class.” Are we to believe “the college-educated and the affluent” don’t work?

“Forget about the adults who are involved.

“Given the social, emotional, physical and financial importance of marriage to children and society, this trend is going to have enormous consequences on our country in a few decades.

“The United States is fast becoming two nations, one rich (with relatively stable families) and one poor (with relatively uncertain family ties).”

[RWC] You have to give the Times “credit” for trying to drill in propaganda. This is at least the third editorial in the last three months that’s tried to sell the “two nations” BS. Two previous mentions were in “Bottom line” and “Wage gap.”

“How we as a people, a society, a nation and a government address this great divide will determine whether it is reversed or continues to grow.”

[RWC] Let’s take a leap of faith and assume the facts cited in this editorial are correct. You’ll notice the editorial doesn’t attempt to explain the situation. Does anyone care to guess why?

I’d be willing to bet we won’t see an attempt to explain the situation until the Times can figure out a way to blame it on capitalism, conservatives, Republicans, et cetera.