Men and Marriage are very much alive in India. India has become a raucous battleground between radical feminists and marriage advocates in a very short time span. The Save Indian Family Foundation has approximately 8,000 members, which could make it the largest men’s and marriage organization in the world.
In my analysis, the explosive emergence of the Men’s Marriage Movement in India came about because of two major factors. First, feminists moved in on India like Ghengis Khan. They went overboard, extorted their way into politics, and passed some of the most radical, acid, feminist legislation enacted on earth.
Secondly, the sea-change from marriage to radical feminism occurred very quickly. Most adult Indian men and women alive today were raised in intact families, and marriage is a major piece of their cultural upbringing. They instinctively know that radical feminism is very dangerous and are not going to sit around meekly.
In contrast, feminism assimilated Western cultures much more slowly, and over a period of two generations. Most adults today were raised either in broken families, or according to feminist scripts where men are impressed from birth to not question feminism, to welcome the sexual freedom it bribes them with, and to sit around like toadstools when the pink reaper comes around to collect her due. It has always been difficult to extend the men’s movement beyond the mortally wounded, because men simply have eyes and ears closed to the possibility that radical feminism is ruining the futures of the majority of men and women, who will never know a good marriage or benefit from all the social and economic benefits it provides.
The Gipper made a tragic mistake signing the first no-fault law into existence when he was Governor of California, with Jane Fonda literally sitting at the desk with him. It took the men’s movement 30 years to take its first baby steps, and since 2000 has been finding its first popularity in the media and politics.
Unfortunately, neither political party has a clue that the Men’s Movement is substantively about ending the divorce revolution and restoring marriage values. It is a rare Christian activist who has any awareness either.
If you are sick and tired of our illusory, aimless political system, you must remember who Jane Fonda, Kim Gandy, Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Patricia Ireland, Eleanor Smeal are and what they stood for. It is feminist politics that turned the personal into the political, established the art of victim-politics, and formally established a variety of federally-funded political disinformation machines now ramified in the rise of the Hillary Clinton machine.
Feminism has done little since 1960 but legalize the killing of babies by mothers, made prostitution a right, brought about a wanton destruction of marriage, bore a ravenous welfare state constituting the largest line-item in the federal budget, and now demands same-sex marriage.
These are the people who put America into the weak social and economic position it suffers today. Economics dictates that America cannot enjoy a lasting social recovery until the programs and policies destroying the bedrock institution of marriage are cleared from the lawbooks.
When the rest of America gets it right, a magic and unstoppable convergence will occur between healthy social reformers and the political and religious organizations that can change America for the better.
Below is an example of SIFF’s excellent work in India. They are eager students of politics, and I have spent a fair amount of time with their leaders teaching them the ropes. Western men of all ages should take their cue and do the same. Your future does not have to be what it used to be.
David R. Usher is Senior Policy Analyst for the True Equality Network
