'Parents gap'

WT reported An analysis by a Democratic think tank argues that Democrats are suffering from a severe "parent gap" among married people with children, who say the entertainment industry is lowering the moral standards of the country.

The study, published last week by the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), the policy arm of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, admonishes Democrats to pay more attention to parental concerns about "morally corrosive forces in the culture," and warns that the party will not fare better with this pivotal voting bloc until they do.

ArchPundit blogged Parents are concerned about the level of sexuality and violence in a society. More importantly, sex without context is too often portrayed as normal--something few of us want to teach kids.... But more importantly to me personally, is the gratuitous violence in our culture--and violence is harder to control access to because the courts have long held that sexually explicit material is easier to regulate than violently explicit material.

Betsy Newmark blogged Hence, Hillary Clinton's well-advertised motions to seem to admonish the entertainment industry. Maybe people will buy that she would do things that would upset her pals in Hollywood, but those with longer memories will remember how cozy her husband has always been with the glitterati and cast a skeptical eye on her obivious attempts to seem more moderate on such issues.

The PPI is right, but I think there is too much anger in the Democratic party, and the left is too strong, that I don't think many in the Democratic Party are going to listen to them.