Welcome back to Good Life, a newsletter about navigating our modern culture and staying sane in the process. This week, we discuss the birthright our children are owed and how we as parents have a responsibility to see them receive it.
How Much Is Your Child’s Safety Worth?
I don’t even know how to process the video of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska being stabbed to death in Charlotte, North Carolina. Everyone on the left keeps saying that conservatives are “pouncing” on this murder, making it a political issue, but in what reality is this not?
I think they are saying that in hopes they can make this story go away. It’s the greatest example of their failed policies playing out in visceral imagery on everyone’s social media page. Even the least political of my friends is talking to me about how scary and sad her death is and confessing disturbing stories about their own experiences dealing with the rising crime in our cities.
Initially, I had planned to write about my daughter running for class representative, but the constant reminder of this story was too much to ignore. Parents don’t want to have their lives revolve around politics. Not when there are volleyball games, soccer practices, and school projects to complete. But when something this horrific happens, you can’t help but see it as a wake-up call.
Our society tells me that as a “good parent,” I should encourage my four daughters to go out and experience the world. I am expected to send them to the college they want to attend, even if it is out of state. I should want them to travel the world without me, and sign them up for activities and opportunities that push them out of the safety net of our family.
For what? So that they can take the train home and risk being stabbed to death for sitting quietly by themselves? Or be raped and murdered on their morning run before class? Or raped and murdered under an overpass after leaving a convenience store? This is the world that they want me to send my daughters out into without protection willingly?
This is insanity. There’s a reason my husband and I moved out to the suburbs, avoiding big cities. There’s a reason he has to drive an hour to work every day. We want our girls to grow up in a safe, conservative community where they can ride their bikes and play at the park without having to worry about the dangers that come with leftist control.
Of course, this story is political because it’s the terrible political decisions made by the left that have gotten countless innocent Americans killed. In 2020, when every major blue city was being burned to the ground over the death of a drug-addicted black man, the left wanted that to be political. They wanted everyone to kneel, post black squares on their social media page, and pay for their “privilege.”
It’s perfectly fine for the left to use outrage to further their political aspirations, but when everyday Americans see horrifying images of a beautiful girl bleeding out in a railcar, we are supposed to move on.
We aren’t worthy of feeling safe, prosperous, or free anymore. If we want violent criminals to be locked up the first time they commit a crime, and not after the fourteenth time they’ve violently offended, then we are uncompassionate, racist ghouls. When Americans beg for our leaders to deport violent illegal immigrant gangs, we are xenophobic. Or if we cheer when our military conducts a targeted strike on narco terrorists, we are championing war crimes.
The point they want to make crystal clear is that Americans aren’t allowed to use politics for our benefit.
I don’t have a ton of time left where my entire family comes home together every night. This story is political and personal for me and millions of other American families who look at Iryna and see their own daughter. I will vote and financially support the candidates who are willing to enter the political arena to put an end to the danger.
Every year, our cities get worse. The homeless encampments, drug addicts, and criminals have taken over our streets, made our communities unlivable, and made the taxpayer-funded amenities unusable.
As I am writing this, my youngest daughter came in to give me a kiss and a hug. Why on earth would the left be against me making her safety a priority? Why would they care if conservatives are outraged over Iryna’s death? The most important question in all of this is, WHY AREN’T THEY?
Our children, as Americans, are entitled to a birthright that affords them a life better than the violence often found in third-world countries. They shouldn’t have to step over the remnants of overdoses, murders, and mayhem on the sidewalks near their parks. Or worry about their safety when traveling home from work.
Violence is not new in our society, but the way we punish the ones responsible for it is. It has to end. Our children deserve so much more than what we are offering them now. And until this is fixed, we need to continue to make these horrific murders a point of political outrage. Never let our elected leaders get away with their negligence.
Ignore their cries for us to have compassion for the violent criminals stealing our children’s safety. We can no longer afford the cost. Nor should we ever want to pay it again.
WHAT I SAW THIS WEEK:
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Cindy Bi used a surrogate to give birth to her only male embryo. Complications during the pregnancy resulted in Bi’s march for what she considers justice, but to anyone else, it clearly looks like a woman exacting revenge. You can read all about that story HERE.
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