David Brooks agrees with Buzzcut about the poor

People are poor because they don't work, aren't educated, and have kids out of wedlock.

Across America, millions of mothers can’t rise because they don’t have adequate support systems as they try to improve their skills. Tens of millions of children have poor life chances because they grow up in disorganized environments that make it hard to acquire the social, organizational and educational skills they will need to become productive workers.

Tens of millions of men have marred life chances because schools are bad at educating boys, because they are not enmeshed in the long-term relationships that instill good habits and because insecure men do stupid and self-destructive things.

Children really are the biggest victims of our lax culture.

Unfortunately, Brooks raises the trope that "early childhood education" is the answer. I wish it were, but all the evidence is that Head Start and similar programs don't work.