{"id":1984771,"date":"2023-07-28T03:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T07:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beware-of-bureaucrats-wanting-to-be-your-bff\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T07:13:08","slug":"beware-of-bureaucrats-wanting-to-be-your-bff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beware-of-bureaucrats-wanting-to-be-your-bff\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for bureaucrats trying to be your best friend."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbeware-of-bureaucrats-wanting-to-be-your-bff%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1984771&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>What if I told\u2063 you \u200cto trust the feds\u2063 to help you \u200ddeal with your feelings of loneliness and\u200d social isolation? I hope you\u2019d laugh in my face. <\/p>\n<p>These are the \u200csame folks who demanded you self-isolate, hide your face, and stay\u2064 in your \u2062house for years after saying Covid lockdowns would last only 15 days.\u200d They threatened our livelihoods and\u200b freedom to travel if we \u2063didn\u2019t take their untested injections. They \u200dalso urged us to shun and\u200b snitch on any \u200cloved ones who\u2062 resisted the Covid propaganda. And now they are\u2063 demanding \u2063we\u200b trust them to help us alleviate our loneliness epidemic?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-444706175\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a5bf48bcf80259faf52193117ffb2042 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a5bf48bcf80259faf52193117ffb2042\"><\/div>\n<p>So I hope you\u2019re alarmed to learn that the Centers for Disease Control\u2062 and Prevention has \u2062been charged with curing the nation of its loneliness\u2063 epidemic. Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chris Murphy,\u200b D-Ct., <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisMurphyCT\/status\/1681350024200962053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently introduced<\/a> the National Strategy for Social Connection Act. Among other things, the bill would create a new bureaucracy: \u200ca federal \u201coffice of social connection policy\u201d to advise the White House. If you think it will end there, I have a lovely bridge\u200b in Wuhan to sell you. In fact, the urge\u200c to federally monitor human \u200crelationships looks like it\u2019s becoming a trend. The\u200c United Kingdom created\u2063 its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegram.com\/story\/lifestyle\/faith\/2023\/03\/25\/keep-the-faith-a-ministry-of-loneliness\/70038099007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ministry of Loneliness<\/a> in 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstoday.in\/latest\/world\/story\/japan-appoints-loneliness-minister-to-tackle-suicide-rates-289247-2021-02-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Japan<\/a> followed suit\u200c in 2021.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Other Shoe Has Dropped<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Murphy\u2019s legislation is the sound of the other shoe dropping after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released in\u2064 May an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">81-page advisory<\/a> titled \u201cOur \u2064Epidemic of Loneliness and\u2062 Social Isolation.\u201d Here at The Federalist, I published a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/30\/to-address-the-loneliness-epidemic-the-feds-want-to-control-your-town-and-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three<\/a>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/31\/federal-loneliness-advisory-sketches-blueprint-for-regulating-everyones-private-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">part<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/05\/federal-loneliness-advisory-threatens-to-destroy-freedom-by-occupying-private-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">series<\/a> on the perils of the surgeon\u2063 general\u2019s advisory. It looks very much like a blueprint for a federal\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/05\/federal-loneliness-advisory-threatens-to-destroy-freedom-by-occupying-private-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">invasion of\u2062 the private sphere<\/a> of life in America. The pretext is\u2063 that it is for our own good since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beware-of-bureaucrats-wanting-to-be-your-bff\/\" title=\"Watch out for bureaucrats trying to be your best friend.\">social isolation adversely\u200b affects health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory outlines a six-pillared strategy that reads like a Big \u200bBrother plan to invade every nook and cranny of private life in America. It\u2064 first calls for federal \u201cinfrastructure\u201d to track and \u201cstrengthen\u201d Americans\u2019 social connections \u2062in every place people gather, including community organizations, transportation hubs, housing, \u200cschools, libraries, sports leagues, clubs, churches \u2014 you name it. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-fa4c31d9d2fb7129d8262e3100acb2ab fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-fa4c31d9d2fb7129d8262e3100acb2ab\"><\/div>\n<p>Murphy\u2019s legislation is \u2064the first step to building that infrastructure and pushing forward the other pillars of the advisory. If it\u2019s enacted, the second pillar kicks\u2064 in. That means social connection will be included in \u2064 <em>all \u200bpolicies<\/em> \u2014 on\u2062 every level of government and in all our institutions \u2014 and will mandate a framework of so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), which divides people based on their\u200b physical characteristics \u2062and uses those \u2063divisions as justification for discrimination. \u2064 <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ark-lawmakers-override-governors-veto-pass-transgender-treatment-ban\/\" title=\"Ark. lawmakers override governors veto, pass transgender treatment ban\">health care sector<\/a>\u200c would then\u200b monitor and track our social connections. Ditto for Big Tech. This will all be bolstered by a propaganda campaign to \u201craise public awareness.\u201d To top it all off, we can expect the \u200cgovernment to cultivate \u2063a \u201cculture of connection\u201d\u200c that compels Americans to adopt federally defined and\u2062 federally approved values in their\u200d personal relationships.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ironies Abound<\/h2>\n<p>Aside from the absurdity of enlisting the federal bureaucracy to solve a deeply spiritual problem, \u200cMurphy\u2019s\u200b legislation is\u200d loaded\u200d with points that should \u200birritate any reasonable person. Does he actually believe this stuff? What about the federal \u200bgovernment\u2019s role in <em>creating<\/em> the\u200b loneliness \u200bepidemic in the \u2062first place through such monstrosities as the welfare state? Has he\u200b thought\u2063 that through \u200cand reconsidered policies that have \u200ccaused so\u200d much misery? <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, both the \u200dsenator and the surgeon general have done the requisite \u201clistening tours\u201d to\u2062 lend some credibility to their proposals. To hear them talk about loneliness as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-governor-encourages-people-to-call-police-on-neighbors-violating-covid-orders\/\" title=\"Oregon Governor Encourages People To Call Police On Neighbors Violating COVID Orders\">public health crisis<\/a>, you\u2019d think they independently discovered a shocking new pandemic\u2062 and are now sharing their proposed vaccines with the world. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-afd4664b513dd5c7b117865f0be34aa1 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-afd4664b513dd5c7b117865f0be34aa1\"><\/div>\n<p>The \u2062fact is that <em>everybody already knows<\/em> about the \u200bloneliness epidemic,\u2062 and <em>everybody already knows<\/em> that the pain of loneliness \u2064is unhealthy. This \u2064has been documented for decades, even though we shouldn\u2019t need scientific studies to prove what\u2019s palpable. Obviously, mental health is adversely affected\u2064 if we\u2019re in a\u2063 state of\u2063 severe \u200cisolation.\u2063 The stress\u2064 of\u200c loneliness also affects our physical health \u2014 including risk of heart disease, stroke, early onset of dementia, and premature death. <\/p>\n<p>And \u2062what everyone should know, but many won\u2019t\u200d acknowledge, is the government\u2019s role in unraveling our society. We can\u200b see it in the constant push \u2014 particularly by Democrat members of Congress like \u200cMurphy \u2014 for policies that tolerate and even\u2062 promote family breakdown, urban blight, crime, addictions, and countless other alienating conditions in\u2063 life. <\/p>\n<p>As Nathanael\u2062 Blake\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/24\/a-department-of-friendship-cant-fix-the-sexual-revolutions-lonely-fallout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently pointed out\u2062 here at The Federalist<\/a>, the sexual revolution has \u200bplayed a huge role \u200bin our epidemic of loneliness \u2062and social isolation, particularly in\u200d stimulating family breakdown. Yet Murphy and his Democrat\u200b colleagues continue to push \u200bfor alienating agendas such as\u2062 unlimited abortion and the transing of\u200b children. On top of this, left-wing efforts to\u2062 suppress competing views \u2063are ramping up. Broken families, suppression of speech, living in fear \u2014 all these and more \u2063are central elements of isolation and\u2064 loneliness. Yet\u2062 those who promote such\u200c destabilizing policies show no intention of dialing them back. <\/p>\n<p>Now \u2014 ironically? weirdly? \u2014 the feds want to \u200bfix your \u2064loneliness with \u2063yet another set of policies and bureaucracies while \u200csustaining all the\u200b policies and bureaucracies\u200b that have contributed greatly to the growth of that very sense of isolation. So what gives? Why are they\u200c midwifing yet\u2064 another federal department that \u200cpromises more bloat and waste without accomplishing its \u2064stated\u200c mission?<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the\u200c unstated purpose is social engineering, as usual. If\u2064 left to their own\u200b devices, the senator\u2019s follow-up legislation to the surgeon general\u2019s advisory will inevitably serve to regulate our \u200dpersonal relationships. That purpose fits perfectly into the long historical pattern of\u200b tyrannical attacks \u2064on the private sphere of life. And while they give lip service to promoting human connections, they are paving a road to more social atomization through \u200dmore federal\u2062 control of those connections. That\u2019s the established pattern of budding tyrannies throughout modern history. <\/p>\n<p>Family, faith, and community are the last institutions standing that have not yet been completely subverted by ruling elites. These mediating institutions\u2064 serve as buffer zones between the lone individual and \u200cthe mass state. They\u2062 give us the inner strength to resist the designs of social engineers. If our rulers really\u200c cared about the problem of\u200d social isolation, \u200cthey would <em>get out of the \u2063way. \u200c <\/em>They would encourage the\u2063 flourishing of families, faith, and true community and friendship. <\/p>\n<p>If \u2062you can\u2019t believe that, then ask yourself why the\u200c advisory claims that those with higher \u2062levels of social connection (more family, faith communities,\u200d friends) enjoy more benefits (i.e., \u201cunearned privileges\u201d) in life than those with \u200bfewer. Ask yourself why DEI, which is steeped in identity politics,\u200b is baked into the surgeon general\u2019s advisory as a non-negotiable part of the strategy. <\/p>\n<p>Murphy\u2019s National Strategy for Social Connection Act will not work. \u200cNeither is it meant \u200cto work as stated. Rather, it\u2019s another federally proposed train wreck that will make our loneliness\u2064 epidemic worse than ever before. It\u2019s designed to erode our last outposts of freedom in the \u200bprivate sphere of life. We\u200d can\u2019t let that happen. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0ca14b40a8fa418123716b3888ea7171 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0ca14b40a8fa418123716b3888ea7171\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if I suggested relying on the feds to address your loneliness and social isolation? You&#8217;d probably laugh. 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