Progress or Decline?
In recent decades, prominent political figures have become icons of progressive leadership. Yet alongside their popularity, many have watched with concern as their administrations and rhetoric have promoted an agenda that, for many citizens, signifies a profound ethical and moral decline.
From the global promotion of radical ideologies to interference in the most intimate family decisions, the Democratic Party has crossed boundaries once considered unthinkable. This reflection aims to question that direction and emphasize the urgent need to reclaim moral sanity, personal ethics, and common sense.
One of the most alarming aspects has been the use of state institutions—including the Department of State and international cooperation agencies—to promote a worldview rooted in gender ideology and the Woke agenda. This is not confined to U.S. soil: embassies, aid programs, and public funds have been used to pressure countries into adopting cultural norms foreign to their traditions, beliefs, and values.
This kind of “ideological colonization” sparks rejection not only among conservatives but also among many who simply want respect for human rights without the destruction of fundamental principles such as family, childhood, and biological truth.
Childhood at Risk and Marginalized Parents
Along these lines, parents' rights have been weakened, especially regarding their children’s gender identity. In some U.S. states, minors can access hormonal or surgical treatments to change their sex without parental consent.
Are we protecting children… or using them as subjects of ideological experimentation? Minors cannot vote or legally consume alcohol, yet they can make irreversible changes to their bodies. This represents a dangerous break with logic, science, and responsibility.
Abortion to the Edge of Life
Another concern is Democratic leaders’ support for abortion well into advanced stages of pregnancy. While abortion has always been a complex issue, defending its legality almost up to birth seems stripped of humanity. Many wonder if this extreme defense of “reproductive rights” is, in fact, a way to trivialize life itself.
Attack on the Traditional Family
Recently, Hillary Clinton stated that the U.S. population will grow through immigration, questioning the viability of returning to the 1950s family model. These remarks reveal a devaluation of the traditional family unit, where a single income could support a household with children, a home, and stability.
Today, two incomes barely suffice to survive, and family structure has been weakened by policies that reward state dependency and punish moral autonomy. The family, far from being an oppressive institution, has historically been a refuge of security, affection, and value formation. Why dismantle it?
Economic and Moral Crisis: Two Sides of the Same Coin
It is no coincidence that economic crisis coincides with an ethical crisis. A society that promotes pleasure without commitment, desire without consequences, and power without responsibility is bound to collapse. Today, entertainment is valued over effort, emotion over truth, and self-assertion over duty.
Politicians and leaders advocating this vision often live in stable environments, with children in private schools and traditional marriages. Yet they promote for the rest of the population an unstable, ideologized, and artificial model that breeds confusion and division.
The Migration Paradox
Illegal immigration is another major issue. While it is necessary to address the suffering of those fleeing poverty or violence, allowing uncontrolled entry without background checks or effective cultural integration has had serious consequences for security, employment, and social cohesion.
Even more troubling is the defense of migrants with criminal records while honest citizens suffering the consequences are abandoned. Security and order are not luxuries; they are basic conditions for a dignified life.
Attack on Western Values
A narrative blaming the West for all the world’s ills and ridiculing those who defend values such as freedom, family, religion, or patriotism has taken hold. This perspective dominates universities, media outlets, and tech platforms, fostering a culture of resentment and distrust toward the foundations that brought stability to our societies.
But we cannot build the future by destroying the foundations of the past. Freedom cannot stand without responsibility, and progress has no meaning without a moral anchor.
Toward a New Moral Sanity
Humanity needs to return to an ethics grounded in common sense. This does not mean imposing religions or dogmas but rescuing universal values: the defense of life, respect for the family, parents’ rights, childhood innocence, truth as a principle, and freedom accompanied by responsibilities.
We can and must live in a modern, inclusive, and compassionate society without falling into destructive relativism that distorts everything. It is time to say enough to ideological manipulation and start rebuilding a culture based on truth, responsibility, and decency.
Beyond politics, each of us has the power to positively influence our environment. We need leaders, parents, teachers, and citizens who live with integrity and teach by example.
Amid the noise, it is still possible to Live with Purpose.