The Village

In 1996, as Hillary Clinton was crafting her future Presidential résumé, she published a book, ghostwritten by Barbara Feinman, entitled, It Takes a Village. She was channeling John F. Kennedy, who published his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Profiles in Courage, four years before being elected President. But that is where the comparison ends. Whereas Kennedy’s book profiled the courage on eight Senators in United States history who helped make America the great country it has become, Hillary’s book was a disguised attack on America. It was an obvious Trojan horse for socialism, and eventually communism to be implemented into our country.

The title of Hillary’s book comes from an old African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.”  It is a transparent call for enlarging the role of the state into everybody’s life. If it indeed takes a village to raise a child then it is only a short step before the state starts raising our children because the state will claim it can perform the duties of the village much more efficiently. I would not be writing about this little red book, except for the fact that I’ve noticed on TV, the Internet, and in my daily life, that more and more people have been evoking the phrase “it takes a village” when discussing child-rearing to the point that it may become part of our zeitgeist, and that scares the hell out of me because I know where it is leading.

The proverb, “it takes a village to raise a child”, may have been true in sub-Saharan Africa a thousand years ago, but in 21st century America, the real expression is “it takes a village to destroy a child.” We are witnessing, in real time, what happens when the village tries to raise our children. The village does not care about our families and does not care about our children. The village is found on TikTok and Instagram, and all the social media sites that are infiltrating our children’s lives, minds and psyches, leading to depression, neuroses and even suicide.