“You are the government. They are NOT your kids.”
—Entrepreneur and Twitter savior Elon Musk, responding to the Biden Administration’s totalitarian rhetoric in its latest pander to the LGBTQ lobby.
The White House released a tweet from the Biden-Harris administration that stated, “To the LGBTQI+ Community – the Biden-Harris Administration has your back.” The video accompanying the tweet states, “these are our kids,” and “not somebody else’s kids; they’re all our kids.”
Given this earlier in the week,
… I can certainly understand why the President would rather concentrate on that community’s backs than their fronts, but I digress. Other conservatives “pounced” in addition to Musk.
To be fair, the full video makes those statements in the legitimate context of rejecting the treatment of LGPTQ individuals as “the other,” and arguing that they should be loved, as President Biden, sounding older than dirt, says that it “matters a great deal how we treat everyone in this country.” (Was someone really paid to write that drivel?) However, it is stunningly tone deaf (Suspicious? Insidious?) for Democrats to be asserting ownership over everybody’s kids while its favorite union, the teachers, has been insisting that parents should have little input into what their children are taught—in other words, how they are indoctrinated, especially after the Justice Department released a warning that overly-outraged parents who oppose leftist school boards could find themselves in trouble with Big Brother.
So good for Musk. We should all be cynical about apparently benign language that is likely a cover for malign objectives. That’s how propaganda works, and the radical progressives of the 21st Century have raised the technique to a fine art. Thus “Black Lives Matter” became the deceptive label for a violent Marxist movement advocating anti-white racism: if you said you didn’t support the group, you were revealing that you didn’t accept the message, you racist. Thus did “gender-affirming care” become the official Democratic Party term for surgically removing children’s breasts or testicles after confused kids had been convinced by teachers that they were the “wrong sex.”
The convenience of being able to wrest parenting from families has been a totalitarian tool going back to the Mongols of Genghis Khan, and as the progressives have become bolder in pursuing their goals, this objective for American children has become more apparent. It is sinister enough to warrant special vigilance. Maybe the message embedded in the LGTBQ video is innocent, but maybe it’s not. Musk’s ethics alarms are clearly attuned to a real danger.
Everyone’s should be.
Ethics Alarms 
Interesting in a depressing sort of way, but this is not a new debate. There is and always will be tension between the role of the collective and the rights of the individual. Musk to my mind is following a long tradition by which those who are very rich and powerful seek to diminish assertions of collective will or opinion.
Yes we should be ever vigilant. The threat in my view to ‘us’, the relatively weak ‘people’ , comes more from the rich and powerful than from the ‘collective’, the however imperfectly elected Government.. We will be in real trouble when Musk and his immensely rich and powerful mates can assert:
“You are the Government. These are not YOUR children They are MINE!!!”
My suspicion is he is already thinking that way.
Doubtless there are rich and powerful people out there like that, but I don’t think Musk is one of them. Does he want people to buy his product and pass that product loyalty onto their children? Sure, most businesses do.
It’s the idealogues that want to grasp onto the children. Idealogues infiltrate society in many ways – business, yes; religion, yes; culture and entertainment, yes. It’s when idealogues are given a platform for their grasping dogma, a bullhorn to pronounce their dictates and the power of enforcement backed and encouraged by government that we’re in trouble.
Interesting argument : are we more in danger from crazy ideas; or massive and unaccountable money and power? I hold to the latter but clearly both are threats. On rare occasions when they combine we are in real trouble.
We have had periods when really dodgy ideas have reigned such as inherent racial superiority. But steadily good people and sound arguments can win through; although it can take a long time and there can be plenty of setbacks. That is why we must maintain the freedoms of speech and debate.
But when the rich own it all, dominating all sources of power, there is typically no route for decent political recovery. That power is inevitably corrupting.
Stalin was never defeated, other than by death. But Marx’s original ideas have long since been mellowed by argument and experience, and are now hardly recognisable.
The government has made it’s position in regards to their ownership of the nation’s children fairly clear. Parents are not permitted to have any say in their children’s education, medical care, religious or political beliefs or even their gender. Any disagreement with the state will be labeled child abuse and the children will be removed from the parents custody. Some state governments are currently getting in the federal government’s way on this, but other’s are embracing it to the point where a California state senator recently advised parents to flee the state.
Elon Musk is right to point out the danger this poses.
I’d say it really does take a village to raise a child. But the village is not the government. The village is your family, friends, neighbors, and church. When the government adopts the guise of a village, it’s typically a cover for totalitarianism. We should be past the point of a lord inserting himself into the village to “protect” his peasants but allowing them little freedom and being accountable to no one.