Preserving the opportunity for people to have a fairly traditional family life, if that’s what they want, is a high priority for Republicans. You should be able to have kids and send them to scouts and soccer and celebrate your holidays all living together with a fire in the hearth. People may not choose to do this -- of course -- but it should be possible, and if we make it more achievable we’ve made the world a better place.
While it would be unfair to say that Democrats oppose family life, of course, they have higher priorities. They do not get up in the morning focusing on how to make traditional family life easier to attain. Instead, they are typically caught up in an elaborate theory to save the world and in doing so (or typically, in not doing so) Democrats often promote programs that reduce incentives for married poor couples to stay together or generally make things harder for parents to live a traditional life and bring up their children in a safe environment.
The Democratic disconnect with traditional life is why the Democratic Party often fails among blue collar voters. Liberals are so out of touch with this issue that they are mystified when it loses them votes. They write puzzled books about it (e.g., What’s the Matter With Kansas). Maybe I shouldn’t be writing about it publicly?
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