Julian658 wrote:The rate of marriage in the upper classes has gone down very little
This is at best misleading. The percentage of upper class Americans over the age 16 that are married has gone down substantially and the percentage of upper class Americans over the age of 16 that are in their first marriage has dropped even more.
and the rate of marriage in the poor and middle class is extremely low.
This marriage gap increases the wealth gap. The children of a stable two parent home achieve to greater heights in school. Why do youthink the kids of Asian and Indian immigrants do so well?
https://inservice.ascd.org/the-matthew-effect/
I'm not disputing any of this and I'm not arguing that any of this should be ignored. What I'm attacking is Conservative attempts or more often pretences at social engineering. Conservatives have quite rightly been sceptical about progressive liberal and socialist attempts at social engineering but seem to feel they are entitled to expect their own social engineering schemes to work. In America and to a lesser extent in Britain we've now nigh on four decades of Conservative welfare policies that heaped enormous misery on economically struggling people and families. In that time we've seen precious little of the wonderful positive cultural change that was promised from these policies.
In my book taking lead out of petrol and other measures to reduced urban toxic pollution have done far more to help the poor and lower middle class than Conservative polices by a long mile.
Look a lot of people might be stupid and be taken in by fake Conservative concern, but I wasn't born yesterday. Conservative welfare policies were created with the deliberate intention to ferment racial hatred, division and conflict. Conservatives have relentless pushed their racist welfare measage for over half a century.
Black people can't be trusted with Welfare.
Because Black people can not be trusted with welfare, no one's allowed to have welfare.
So their message to poor racial Europeans and potentially other non racially sub Saharan African racial groupings is that its "the Blacks" fault you can't have welfare.