![]() As Rebecca Traister has incisively argued, the growing prevalence of singledom among America’s rising generation of women is one of the most potent forces in contemporary politics. Neither the societal shift away from traditional gender roles nor the downstream cultural consequences of that shift are anywhere near complete. Here’s a fascinating article from New York magazine on the massive gender gap between Trump and Biden supporters. It contains this eye-popping claim, buried deep down: In 2020, I wrote about this phenomenon - that is, of the future of the nation depending on strong families, and how we are busy sabotaging that. Excerpt: ![]() Nobody wants to hear that because it goes against the Narrative, but it happens to be demonstrable from the data. The social scientist’s point is that the Sexual Revolution is having, and will continue to have, massive downstream effects. Nations that have had to deal with this problem in the past have occupied these men with war and colonialism, to channel that energy externally. ![]() His basic claim, citing social science data, and historical comparisons, is that societies that have a large number of young men without mating prospects is a society given over to violent crime and social instability. The paper will be published soon, and I’ll discuss it here when it comes out. This morning I’m thinking about a paper I just read from a mainstream social scientist I know and trust, predicting an “existential crisis” for our civilization based on the collapse of family formation and sexual dynamics. You know my line on this, so I’m not going to go into it again. We have forgotten what it takes to maintain a resilient civilization. I think the principle can be generalized. Persecution may not come, but we should prepare ourselves to be able to thrive if it did. I forget his phrasing, but the point was not about predicting persecution, but rather talking about effective discipleship. Some Evangelical I follow on Twitter, can’t remember who, tweeted the other day that he changed his view of seminary education when he heard someone say that churches should be preparing people to face persecution. What is it going to take to make America great again? It’s not going to be politics alone. The light unto the nations has turned itself into the neon filaments of the trans strippers’ neon. The military-industrial complex and the foreign policy elites want to spread it throughout the West. The business class is all in on celebrating decadence. One party promotes this, and the other party is too cowardly or otherwise disengaged to defend their own country’s traditions. We have become a country ruled in many public and most major private institutions by people who hate its founding ideals, who hate its traditional liberties and moral norms, who hate the race of the majority of people in this country and who wish to stir up racial hatred among us, who hate orthodox forms of the religion of a majority of its people, and who are busy destroying the pillars of national life and cleansing the memories of the next generation so they will forget what America ever was. Independents’ extreme pride, at 34%, is likewise the lowest on record for the group. However, Republicans’ extreme national pride (58%) is now at its lowest point in the trend. Republicans’ pride in being American has consistently outpaced Democrats’ and independents’ since 2001 and does so today. The year 2015 is when wokeness started its conquering march through the institutions. has been trending downward since 2015, falling below the majority level in 2018 it is nearly 20 points lower now than it was a decade ago. However, extreme national pride in the U.S. The highest readings followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when patriotism surged in the U.S. Still:īefore 2015, no less than 55% of U.S. To be fair, the numbers are still very, very high compared to the sentiment in, say, Europe, where people have been taught to fear and loathe nationalism ever since World War II.
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