Persecution by David Limbaugh about the various ways that Christians were discriminated against. - JD Vance

despite all of the environmental pressures from my neighborhood and community, I received a different message at home. And that just might have saved me.

What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.

How much of our lives, good and bad, should we credit to our personal decisions, and how much is just the inheritance of our culture, our families, and our parents who have failed their children?