Is kinda impressive actually, although a not-so-obvious shocker what I am about state here, that conservatives say we need to "go back to family-oriented values" when American culture at its foundation has always been ruggedly individualistic and entrepreneurial, what are conservatives conserving?

The yapping about how '"we need to go back to family values" from lots of mainstream conservatives is interesting, and yet outright confusing to say the least, the main matra of American adulthood(and even youth for that matter) has always been achievements and success over family and people. I was watching Home Improvement awhile back and in one of their episodes they greatly referenced how the Industrial Revolution actually took the father out of the home, so this is way before the deadbeat cliché made its way into mainstream socio-political discourse that sprunged from the sexual revolution

And it is so true, our workaholic results-driven culture is what literally keeps us from connecting with families and our communities, and as society only continues to get more "neoliberal" in its econimic policies, but more morally conservative in the "adhere to the status quo or you'll face social consequences" mentality, is it any wonder why we have so many broken families and disconnected get-togethers today?

Another problem is that children are treated as a burden in our current culture, part of me thinks this is because of the antinatalist propaganda as well as ecofacism making its way, but that's for another conversation

Mainstream conservatives: "Gen Z and millenials barely wanna make a living out of anything, they have become lazy entitled slobs living off of mommy and daddy's money"

Also mainstream conservatives: "Why are women out working for corporate shills when they could be raising kids and starting a family?"

Pick one because you can't have both