My last column, “Why Many Conservatives Won’t Be with Their Children or Grandchildren This Christmas,” dealt with the issue of parents whose left-wing adult children have cut off all contact with their parents because the parents are on the Right — children who will not even allow their parents to have contact with their grandchildren.
One would think that any person with a functioning conscience and a normal human heart would feel for these parents. As I wrote in the column, if the roles were reversed — that is, if a right-wing child severed all contact with his or her parents because the parents were on the Left, I would feel awful for those parents and condemn any conservative child who did such a thing.
Here are three of the many typical comments from conservative parents and grandparents (from Townhall.com):
Vermonter: “Sadly this is a nationwide trend. Neither of my college educated children have contact with me anymore. Yes it’s painful, especially regarding my grandson. I have apologized for offending them, to no avail…”
Dmckinleyp: “Dennis, this is so timely. Things were bad enough between me and my two daughters, first after I volunteered for the Tea Party and then when I supported Trump. Then my daughter and her husband — who was raised by Leftists working for the federal government — had a baby. She wrote me a farewell email saying she never wanted any contact with me again. I will never see my lovely granddaughter. I am sending her presents and hoping to proceed without confrontation, but prayer is about all I have left.”
The column was apparently forwarded to many leftists and discussed on various left-wing websites.
Even though I believe that the further left one goes, the more likely one is to be mean, I admit to having been surprised at the cruelty, even sadism, that characterizes left-wing reactions to my column.
I assumed that the dominant left-wing responses would be either that I exaggerated how widespread this problem is or that many conservative children act the same way.
My assumptions were wrong.
Nearly every one of the many left-wing responses I read — both on right-wing and left-wing sites — supported the left-wing children who deprive their parents of contact with them and with the grandchildren.
Here are some typical left-wing responses (from a conservative site, American Greatness):
yung god money stax: “… conservatives are whiny, mean little people and their kids don’t want to listen to their racist, homophobic, sexist bs any more or let their kids be around that crap.”
Dennis Prager’s butthole: “This might be the dumbest article I’ve ever read anywhere.”
Loona Chan: “I’m sorry Mr. Prager, you cannot claim after 6 years of Trump being the leader of the Republican Party that ‘meanness’ is not a central component of the current Republican project. Republicans now make being as offensive and disregarding of other’s humanity paramount to their political rhetoric… When a parent on facebook ‘jokes’ about inflicting violence and even killing trans people and their children or grandchildren happen to be gay or trans, I think it is perfectly reasonable to no longer want to associate with that person…”
Austin Tucker the_dster694: “There is not an ounce of tolerance in conservative circles.
“Tolerate the intolerance is what you’re asking, and we won’t.”
BartonsInk4: “I’m pretty sure I speak for all of the children who’ve cut off their parents when I say:
“1. We don’t f—-ing miss you. At all.
“2. We should have done this years ago.”
Of the nearly 1,000 comments on American Greatness, most of them are like the ones quoted here.
Then there are left-wing websites. I’ll cite two examples.
The first is the feminist site, Wonkette, which headlined:
“Won’t Someone Think Of All The Bigots Who Won’t Be Invited To Christmas This Year?”
The article goes on to say:
“People who vote Republican right now … (hold) views that are hurtful to actual human beings, who may or may not be their children, their grandchildren or friends thereof… it is quite easy to imagine that conservatives would freeze out any relative, parent or not, who belonged to one of the various groups they are currently mad at. We know for sure they have a tendency to throw their LGBTQIA+ children out on the streets…
“…apparently ‘parents’ are the only people God demands conservatives be nice to…
“…conservatives who just go around believing everything Tucker Carlson and Dennis Prager tell them are frequently very angry and thus perhaps not the world’s best dinner guests at Christmas or any other time…
“It seems highly unlikely that the parents being frozen out of Christmas dinners are those who ‘just happen’ to vote Republican, but rather those who insist upon torturing their relatives with QAnon conspiracies…”
Then there is an atheist website called OnlySky, which in its own words, “explores the human experience from a secular point of view.”
Its headline read: “Conservatives are upset their kids don’t want to spend Christmas with them: Dennis Prager believes we’re all obligated to spend the holidays with parents who embrace right-wing cruelty”
The author fully defends left-wing children who break off contact with their parents and prohibit the parents from seeing their grandchildren. For example:
“If you care about your health, then people who reject vaccines and spread conspiracy theories about COVID … are literally putting lives at risk. All of that’s before we get into banning books, denying election results, whitewashing history, denying science, demanding more guns in more hands in more places, and believing whatever other lies FOX hosts shove into their heads…
“Why invite people with dangerous views into your home voluntarily? That’s especially true if you have kids. Parents want to protect their children, and that may mean protecting them from their grandparents’ cuckoo bananas beliefs.”
The author of the piece is identified as “the founder of FriendlyAtheist.com, a YouTube creator, podcast co-host, and author of multiple books about atheism.”
If you have a woke child who talks to you, give him or her a hug.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His commentary on Deuteronomy, the third volume of “The Rational Bible,” his five-volume commentary on the first five books of the Bible, was published in October. He is the co-founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
The Uniparty has torn this country apart…
They won’t stop till its ruined.. Utterly, totally and irrevocably!
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” ― Mark Twain
Most of us get too soon old and too late smart. Liberals who believe themselves immortal, who think they will never get too old, usually die of regret for getting too late smart. When reality arrives, the realization of the lost opportunities by living unrealistic failed lives of consumption when they could have created abundances to be shared by others by joining team creation, is a depressing way to go out of this world, without hope, unable to leave anything for their kids having lived off their kids and the public in general.
” Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War? ,,,,”I lived off the life force of others in social dependency leaving this world and my children, no better off for having known me, and sucked dry programs like Social Security and Medicare long before it’s time, dying a true leftist democrat to my last breath.” While alive they denied their was a heaven, and for them alone when dead, was the only thing they got righ,,,for them.
Children are often used as pawns in divorce settlement cases—now they are being used as political pawns.
I wonder, how many of those ‘kids’, who deny grand kids seeing their grand parents, STILL Leech off mom and dad?
I’ve witnessed and been hurt by this sort of emotional blackmail. Leftists can be cruel and ruthless. People are so much more than their political beliefs. What’s in their hearts? Loyalty and warmth, or intolerance and ice. Either way, I cannot force anyone to like me. Live and let live.
Glad I don’t have any of these lefties in my family. There are some that lean left but they aren’t that bad.
Quite frankly, I can’t get too upset with the Leftists who don’t want their kids around Conservatives. For myself, I don’t think any child of an impressionable age should be around Leftists, whether that be parents, grandparents, extended family, or teachers. We have enough Socialism and gender confusion pushed on kids as it is. Is that “mean?” Maybe, but only in the same way it is “mean” to make your kids limit their sugar intake and brush their teeth. If “Uncle John” was a pedophile, would you let your kids be around him? Of course not. Same story. While I believe the Left is ideologically wrong (and significantly “meaner” than the Right,) I can’t condemn them for “protecting” their kids the same way I would protect mine.
BUT THEY are not protecting them. THEY Are shielding them, and using them as pawns.