WASHINGTON – Reb Bradley, author of WND Books’ latest release, “Born Liberal, Raised Right: How to Rescue America from Moral Decline – One Family at a Time,” will be on C-SPAN’s “Book Notes” program twice more this week.
The broadcasts are slated for Saturday, Dec. 27, at 9 p.m. Eastern; and Sunday, Dec. 28, at 7 a.m.
Bradley, an expert on child rearing, says Rush Limbaugh is right about liberals – they are turning America into a nation of victims, dependent, covetous and incapable of the kind of self-government the nation’s founding fathers envisioned.
Author of the previous best-selling book, “Child Training Tips,” Bradley recalls listening to Limbaugh more than a decade ago and having an epiphany about the societal impact of permissive and indulgent parenting.
“I noticed that all of the societal ills Rush talked about were really manifestations of people who really never grew up – never matured,” he explains. “Ultimately, that is what the worldview of liberalism is all about. And we won’t escape its dire ill effects until we learn how to parent.”
Bradley contends that liberalism is the natural condition of the human heart and for people to be capable of self-government, they must be trained against their own nature.
“In this age of technology, one might say that liberalism is our ‘default’ operating condition,” he writes.
“Throughout our childhoods, our parents must work hard and change our settings to keep us from operating in our default mode. If parents are successful, we enter adulthood with our new settings fully locked in. Left untrained, all children would grow up liberal in their outlook.”
Listening to Rush Limbaugh describe what he saw as the traits of liberals led parenting expert Bradley to his conclusions that liberals were, in effect, children who never really grew up.
“Liberals are merely inadequately trained children who grew up and now lead using principles they gleaned from their upbringing,” he says.
All people are born liberal, Bradley writes, meaning they are ruled first by their emotions and passions.
“We come into the world determined to survive, and we vehemently express ourselves to get what we need: ‘Waaa!’ and Momma feeds us,” he writes. “‘Waaa!’ and our diaper is changed’ ‘Waaa!’ and we are put down for a nap. As infants, our strong will can keep us comfortable and alive – the more outspoken we are, the more our needs are met. However, as we start to grow, we no longer cry for our necessities – we crave pleasure, too.”
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