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00:02:35.000Obviously, we have a debt we can never repay to you.
00:02:37.000You fought for the Constitution, you fought for the country, and that's something that can't be blessed enough.
00:02:44.000Thank you so much, and I hope you have a wonderful day.
00:02:46.000Well, we have to bring you the latest in the vote count because apparently the votes in Arizona and Nevada are being counted, hand counted, by the sloth from Zootopia.
00:02:56.000I have no other explanation for why it is going to take, I kid you not, until next week to find out who actually won the gubernatorial seat in Arizona and the Senate seat in Nevada.
00:03:05.000Now, it does look as though Republicans have lost the Senate seat in Arizona.
00:03:08.000It looks like Blake Masters is going to lose.
00:03:10.000Most people are now forecasting that Blake Masters is too far behind to make up ground.
00:03:13.000He's over 100,000 votes behind Mark Kelly in the Arizona Senate seat, which means that Republicans have to win both Nevada and Georgia.
00:04:07.000Of those ballots, about 290,000 were dropped off at vote centers on Election Day, according to Bill Gates, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors chairman.
00:04:13.000Those ballots have to be processed before they can be counted, leading to a lag time in tabulation.
00:04:19.000Gates said we're now getting into what we call the late earlies.
00:04:21.000So these are early ballots we would have received over the weekend, or in specifically, 290,000 that were dropped off on Election Day at our vote centers.
00:04:29.000Those are expected to go for Lake by a not insignificant margin.
00:04:33.000In addition, Maricopa County has about 17,000 ballots that were attempted to be counted on Election Day, but were not read by the tabulator because of a printer error.
00:04:39.000Those ballots still need to be counted as well.
00:04:43.000In Pima County, that's Arizona's second most populous, officials said there were roughly 159,000 ballots left to be counted as Wednesday evening.
00:04:49.000The county doesn't expect to complete the count until November 14th or 15th.
00:04:53.000The uncounted ballots include more than 54,000 early ballots still being processed by the recorder's office.
00:04:58.000Nevada still has mail-in ballots arriving as well.
00:05:00.000Clark County received more than 12,000 postmarked ballots from the post office on Wednesday, according to the Clark County Registrar.
00:05:06.000The number dropped significantly on Thursday.
00:05:08.000The county received about 626 ballots from the Postal Service, but that is a very, very tight election.
00:05:12.000It's quite possible that you'll end up with a hand recount in some of these states because things are so close.
00:05:16.000Meanwhile, overall, the Republican Gains in the House seem to be shrinking fairly dramatically.
00:05:22.000Steve Kornacki is now suggesting, according to his NBC polling, or their sort of surveying and studies, that the eventual Republican House majority will be a House majority of, I kid you not, three seats.
00:05:34.000They will end up with a 220 House majority.
00:05:38.000It takes 218 to end up with just a sheer 218 to 217 majority.
00:05:42.000That'd be an extraordinarily small majority, smaller currently than the majority the Democrats have.
00:05:47.000Those are not amazing numbers considering that this was supposed to be, at the very least, a red tide election in favor of the Republicans.
00:05:54.000Now, it's possible, we still don't have all the votes in, it's possible still that Democrats could maintain control of the House.
00:05:59.000Now, that's unlikely because essentially Democrats would have to clean sweep the rest of the outstanding races.
00:06:07.000With that said, it's not totally out of the realm of possibility.
00:06:11.000Joe Biden has already called to congratulate Kevin McCarthy on becoming the prospective speaker of the House.
00:06:17.000We'll have to see how everything shakes down.
00:06:19.000Bottom line is dramatic underperformance by the House Republicans in a wide variety of races.
00:06:23.000So all of this raises questions about which constituencies put Democrats over the top because broad scale over the course of the country, Republicans did out poll Democrats by somewhere between two and four percent.
00:06:33.000Democrats did win the, what they call the House popular vote.
00:06:35.000Now the House popular vote doesn't mean a thing because just like the presidential vote, popular vote doesn't, that's not how you get people elected.
00:06:41.000The electoral college is how you do it with the presidency.
00:06:43.000House popular vote means nothing because you could stack up a bunch of votes in New York and that wouldn't solve for the problem of winning close races in Kentucky if you're the Republicans, for example.
00:06:53.000There are a couple of factors that people have thrown out there as possibilities for why the Democrats did better than expected.
00:06:58.000So first, the Democrats claimed that it was the young, that if you looked at the number of young people who showed up, that young people were the ones who put Democrats over the top.
00:07:05.000Thank God for the young people, because in the exit polling, it showed that people above the age of 40 voted Republican, people below the age of 40 voted Democrat.
00:07:13.000David Shore, who's the head of data science, At Blue Rose Research, he used to be a sort of mainstream data guy, except that he said things Democrats didn't like, so they threw him out on his ass.
00:07:22.000Well, he put out on Twitter, there was no youthquake.
00:07:25.000Turnout relative to 2018 was strongly associated with age, with turnout increasing starkly in older counties and decreasing the most in younger counties.
00:07:32.000So the notion that a bunch of young people basically put the Democrats over the top is not true.
00:07:37.000So who did put the Democrats over the top?
00:07:39.000Well, it appears that the single greatest factor putting Democrats over the top demographically, because remember, Democrats lost with, they actually lost votes from 2018 to 2022 with black voters, with Hispanic voters, with white voters, like across the board, they did worse than they did in 2018.
00:07:54.000So what exactly helped them mitigate their losses?
00:07:59.000Single women are the ones who helped put Democrats across the finish line in a lot of these races.
00:08:05.000The Washington Examiner broke down the vote by marital status.
00:08:11.000In their exit polling, what they found is that married men voted Republican over Democrat, 59 to 39.
00:08:16.000Married women voted Republican over Democrat, 56 to 42.
00:08:20.000Unmarried men, single men, voted Republican, 52 to 45.
00:08:23.000And all the single ladies voted Democrat.
00:08:25.000They voted 68 to 31 for the Democrats, which of course prompted Joe Biden yesterday to congratulate American women on quote unquote, beating the hell out of the Republicans.
00:08:33.000Now, presumably he really just means single women because the married women voted for the Republicans.
00:08:39.000And as we're going to discuss at length right now, we're going to talk about why single women have now become a large increasing voter block in favor of the Democrats.
00:08:45.000It's a great example of how societal hollowing out of institutions has created entire new voter blocks who are greatly enthralled with the power of government.
00:08:54.000Here is Joe Biden thanking all the ladies.
00:08:58.000As I said, women in America made their voices heard, man.
00:09:04.000I said last year that one of the most extraordinary things about the Dobbs decision is what was about to challenge American women when the justice said, they have it in their power, basically saying, let's see what they're going to do.
00:09:18.000Y'all showed up and beat the hell out of them.
00:09:22.000You beat the hell out of the justices?
00:09:24.000That doesn't sound like bringing unity and peace, Mr. President.
00:09:27.000But the underlying message here, and this is something really important, is that when you get rid of the social institutions that actually are the middlemen for your life, right?
00:09:37.000They are the things that shape your life.
00:09:39.000They shape how you interact with society.
00:09:42.000And the closer the institution is to you, the more it shapes your life.
00:10:14.000into which you are born, and they all shape you.
00:10:17.000When you eviscerate, as the left has successfully done in the United States, all of the layers between you and the federal government, and it's only worked with certain groups, but when you eviscerate those layers, people end up very dependent on the federal government.
00:10:28.000Because the only institution that actually helps you and shapes you is that institution.
00:10:33.000And so this is what we've seen with the death of marriage.
00:10:35.000A lot of Republicans have been, conservatives, have been very upset about the rise of same-sex marriage or the lack of marriage in the United States.
00:10:41.000They've been very upset about the idea that marriage has gone by the wayside in the United States.
00:10:45.000The reason for that is the redefinition of marriage from social institution to private institution that is supposed to be greenlit and enshrined by the federal government.
00:10:53.000The only institution that really matters in this viewpoint is not marriage.
00:11:09.000It's not about the effect on society and the rules for your family.
00:11:13.000are just kind of between who's in the household.
00:11:15.000The changing definition of marriage is a fundamental fact in Western life, and it's completely destroying the society at large because it's essentially eviscerating, as we say, all of the social bonds that exist absent the federal government.
00:11:27.000You're now an atomized individual who lives in perhaps consensual relations with a small group of people.
00:11:33.000And then over time, those those ties kind of fall apart.
00:11:37.000And it's just you, the individual, floating atomistically through society, and the federal government.
00:11:41.000And there's nothing in between, because all of the social fabric has been destroyed.
00:11:46.000Marriage is the most obvious example of this, because marriage is the fundamental basis for all society.
00:11:51.000Again, marriage was a social institution.
00:11:54.000This is why you have a wedding in front of a public, for example.
00:11:56.000This is why, in Judaism, you actually have a document that is signed by witnesses, because it is not merely you have decided to get together with somebody.
00:12:06.000The community has an interest in whether you stay together, for example, with your spouse.
00:12:10.000The community has an interest in how you raise your kids.
00:12:12.000That does not mean that they get to rule how you raise your kids in every aspect, but it does mean that they help define the institution that defines your marriage, that defines your kids.
00:12:21.000Marriage was always a social institution.
00:12:23.000This has been true throughout human history.
00:12:26.000Only now have we redefined marriage into sort of a private arrangement between you and the other person and treated it as though you and the other person had sort of like a I don't know, like a consensual business arrangement that is not even subject to court oversight.
00:12:44.000We treat marriage now with the casualness of you and a friend getting together for lunch, and that is not what marriage traditionally was.
00:12:51.000This is why you've seen, for example, the wide acceptance of cohabitation as a substitute for marriage.
00:12:55.000Because cohabitation is what marriage is now perceived as.
00:12:59.000If you ask most Americans now, what's the difference between two people living together and two people who are married?
00:13:03.000They'd have a very tough time telling you.
00:13:05.000Now in the olden days, and I'm talking here like 20 years ago, if you ask people, what's the difference between cohabitation and marriage?
00:13:11.000What they would say is, one of these things is living to, they used to literally call it living together in sin, right?
00:13:15.000The idea would be that you're living without any sort of social imprimatur for your relationship.
00:13:37.000What we've done in this country is that we've essentially gotten rid of that.
00:13:41.000And so what we see is changing views of marriage, for example.
00:13:44.000So Pew Research, if you look at their study in 2019, marriage and cohabitation in the United States, the share of adults who have lived with a romantic partner is now higher than the share who have ever been married.
00:13:53.000Married adults are more satisfied with their relationships and more trusting of their partners.
00:13:56.000That, of course, is not a shock, as we'll talk about.
00:13:58.000None of this is actually good for the single ladies.
00:14:00.000None of this is actually good for the country.
00:14:02.000It turns out that the happiest women in America are the women who are married with kids.
00:14:07.000Those are the happiest women in America.
00:14:09.000Doesn't mean they shouldn't have a job.
00:14:12.000But if we are trying to design a life path for people, I'm not saying that the government is there to force you into a life path.
00:14:19.000What I am saying is that if we are to create social institutions that foster human happiness, which is what social institutions are for, we might want to look at the things that actually make people happy.
00:14:27.000And it turns out that telling women that the things that are most meaningful to them in life Like, getting married and having kids.
00:14:34.000That these things are simple sort of adjuncts to a successful life.
00:14:38.000That maybe you do them, maybe you don't.
00:14:39.000They're really not all that important.
00:14:40.000You can be just as happy a life sipping wine at age 40, single, alone in your apartment while working 2,200 billable hours at a law firm.
00:14:47.000You're going to be just as happy as you would be if you had been married for 15 years and you have three little kids playing around you and you're working part-time.
00:15:43.000Young adults in the United States are particularly accepting of cohabitation, according to Pew.
00:15:47.00078% of those aged 18 to 29 say it's acceptable for an unmarried couple to live together, even if they don't plan to get married.
00:15:52.000But majorities across all age groups now share this view.
00:15:54.000This is a radical shift in how society has worked, really since the 1960s and the rise of birth control.
00:16:00.000Because before that, if you lived together in sin, the idea was that likely you were going to have some sort of illegitimate child and that would be bad for the kid.
00:16:08.000It's about the externality of the kid.
00:16:09.000But that's not really the reason why living together used to be considered morally wrong.
00:16:43.000About three quarters of Catholics, 74% of Catholics, and white Protestants who do not self-identify as born-again or evangelical, now say that it's acceptable for an unmarried couple to live together even if they don't plan to get married.
00:16:52.000But, if you identify as born-again or evangelical, basically if you are a very religious person, you still believe that there is a problem with this sort of behavior.
00:17:03.000Now, as far as what makes people happier, the answer is that what makes people happier actually is getting married.
00:17:11.000If you get married, you are likely to have higher earnings.
00:17:13.000You are likely to have more sexual satisfaction.
00:17:16.000You are likely to raise your kids in a better way.
00:17:22.000The notion that marriage does nothing for you is not particularly silly, but is not particularly true.
00:17:29.000But what you see is that now, here's the key poll result from this Pew Research poll.
00:17:35.000Most Americans don't see being married as essential to living a fulfilling life, which is kind of wild.
00:17:42.000Because that is the most important relationship you will ever have in your entire life, is the marriage that you have and the family that you create.
00:17:49.000And telling people this, and inculcating this into people, that it's not essential?
00:18:07.000adults say married is essential for a man 16% or a woman 17% to live a fulfilling life.
00:18:13.00054% say being married is important, but not essential for each.
00:18:17.0003 in 10 say being married is not important for a man or a woman to live a fulfilling life.
00:18:20.000Now, what that really says, by the way, is that Americans are so afraid of being labeled judgmental that they refuse to say that it's actually essential for people to get married.
00:18:28.000It is essential for people to get married.
00:18:30.000That doesn't mean that everybody will.
00:18:32.000It doesn't mean that people can't live lives individually.
00:18:35.000That are the best that they want to choose if they don't get married.
00:18:41.000I would say having kids is essential to people's lives.
00:18:44.000Social institutions again are breaking down.
00:18:47.000Marriage is inherently a social institution.
00:18:48.000It used to be a key component of what we used to call civil society in this country.
00:18:52.000Once marriage started being seen as something else, once it started being seen as simply a private arrangement between two people, it began to collapse.
00:19:01.000One, once it began to be seen as not a social arrangement, but a private thing between two people, you ended up expanding the definition of marriage to include everyone.
00:19:09.000This is why you have Joe Rogan talking with Matt Walsh about marriage.
00:19:12.000And Joe is like, I don't understand why two people can't just get married if they love each other.
00:19:15.000And Matt is like, it's a social institution.
00:19:49.000So, this is a chart, for those who cannot see it, of 144 years of marriage and divorce in the United States.
00:19:55.000What you see starting, and we have pretty good stats from the census, starting just after the Civil War, you see that the rate of marriage per 1,000 people was just under 10.
00:20:06.000That stays relatively stable all the way until about the mid-1980s.
00:20:12.000It starts to go up during the 1900 to 1910 era to just above 10 as increasing prosperity allows people to get married.
00:20:22.000And then it goes way down during the Great Depression.
00:20:24.000People stopped getting married because they can't afford to get married.
00:20:27.000And then you see during World War Two that it spikes the rate of marriage.
00:20:32.000And you see a spike in divorce directly after World War Two, because a lot of people sort of rushed into marriage thinking, I'm going to die tomorrow, so I'm going to get married today.
00:20:38.000So you see a giant spike in divorce that happens right in 1946.
00:20:41.000And then it kind of goes back down to the normal.
00:20:44.000You have these very high rates of marriage up until about the early 1950s.
00:20:47.000Now, there's sort of an artificial dip.
00:20:50.000In the level of marriage between 1955 and 1965 or so.
00:20:53.000What that is, is not that fewer people are getting married.
00:20:58.000So if the rate is the number of people getting married per 1000 people in the United States, you have a giant wave of people who are now born.
00:21:05.000That means that the rate is going to go down even if the same number of people year on year are getting married.
00:21:10.000So this rate stays fairly stable, right?
00:21:12.000About 10, 10 per 1,000 people are getting married every year in the United States.
00:21:17.000And then in about 1985, you see a steep decline all the way down to right now in the United States, about 6.8, 6.8.
00:21:25.000So from our height or average height, when you're talking about mid-1970s, like 11, Close to 12 sometimes.
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00:23:52.000The answer is the redefinition of marriage.
00:23:55.000Hey, the redefinition of marriage is what happened.
00:23:58.000And the reason for the redefinition of marriage is because of the second thing on that chart, which is the divorce rates.
00:24:04.000So what you see is that no-fault divorce becomes a thing in the United States starting in about 1970.
00:24:11.000In 1969, Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, in a move he said was one of the worst of his career, he signed into law in California no-fault divorce, which was the idea that before that you had to make an excuse to a court why you wanted to divorce your spouse.
00:24:21.000Adultery, abuse, something that actually necessitated you breaking with your spouse.
00:24:27.000Then, California led the way by signing no-fault divorce in 1969.
00:24:30.000You start to see divorce rates skyrocket.
00:24:33.000That's why you see all these movies like Kramer vs. Kramer that are cropping up in the 1970s, all about divorce and the breaking up of the American family.
00:24:39.000The rates of divorce skyrocket from about 2 in 1,000 All the way up to about five in 1000s.
00:24:47.000They more than double over the course of a decade.
00:24:50.000Like significantly more than double over the course of the decade.
00:24:52.000By early 1980s to mid 1980s, what you have is no fault divorce that is now taking place in nearly every state.
00:25:16.000A rising share of people in the United States who are cohabiting, or never getting together with anybody, and a decline in the institution of marriage.
00:25:23.000And this, unsurprisingly, coincides with a rising share of singles in the United States.
00:25:55.000You see that the number of people cohabiting from 1990 to 2019 has more than doubled from 4% to 9% and the number of people who are unpartnered or not cohabiting and not married has risen from 29%.
00:26:09.000So we went from a country that was essentially two-third married to a country that is only about half married for people between the ages of 25 and 54.
00:26:18.000Because the definition of marriage changed and marriage itself as an institution declined.
00:26:23.000This, not shockingly, coincides with the median age of first marriage rising dramatically by sex in the United States.
00:26:29.000Because again, if marriage is not a social institution fostered by everyone around it, people encouraged to get married, people encouraged to have kids, people told that their local communities, those militating institutions are going to help them out when they have kids.
00:26:42.000When we have kids, look, we have kids, right?
00:27:32.000It's a big social event, not just for partying, but also to celebrate the fact that there is a new little platoon, as Edmund Burke might put it, that is building up the society.
00:27:42.000And the ramifications, by the way, for progeneration are pretty dramatic.
00:27:46.000One of the stories that I saw recently is kind of amazing.
00:28:43.000By 2010, the average age of first marriage for women is about 27.
00:28:47.000The average age of first marriage for men is over 28.
00:28:50.000And that's just for the people who are getting married.
00:28:53.000That's not counting all the people who aren't getting married.
00:28:56.000If you look at the marital status of the US population this last year by sex, What you see is, again, a dramatic decline in the number of people who are married in the United States.
00:29:06.000This is why, again, all of this is to explain why single women are now a voter bloc and why they have particular interests as a voter bloc.
00:29:11.000The redefinition of marriage, the evisceration of the social institutions that used to be what kept people happy and healthy and provided the social support for them.
00:29:22.000For single people, those institutions don't exist in the same way because, again, they're sort of left out of the bargain.
00:29:28.000In the Orthodox community, if you're single, there aren't meal trains, right?
00:29:33.000If you're married and you have kids and you just had a baby, then the meal train comes.
00:29:35.000Okay, so, marital status of the US population in 2021 by sex.
00:29:39.000So what you see is that 47.35 million men have never been married.
00:29:45.000You see that 41.81 million women have never been married.
00:29:49.000The number of men who have been married, total, or who are married right now, total, is about 68 million men and about 68 million women, a little bit fewer men than women, say that they are currently married, which is Sort of odd.
00:30:02.000Not sure why there's an imbalance there, theoretically.
00:30:04.000I guess maybe there are five men who are married to two women or something.
00:30:07.000In any case, if you add together the 42 million women who have never been married with the 15 million women who are divorced, that's 67 million women.
00:30:15.000There's 68 million women who are currently married.
00:30:19.000Okay, so that's now a major voter block.
00:30:20.000And what you see also, if you go back to the original Washington Examiner chart, what you actually see, based on the voting rate, is that unmarried women, even though they are Even though, theoretically, they are less of the voting population, they actually are kind of not.
00:30:37.000If you measure them out, what you see is that if there are 56 million single or divorced women in the United States and 68 million married women in the United States, and you see the vast gap between how unmarried women vote and married women vote, it actually amounts to the same thing.
00:30:53.000Unmarried women completely cancelled out married women in the last election cycle.
00:30:57.000That's because of that vast voter imbalance.
00:31:24.000What you see, for example, is that women are now getting more college degrees and men are falling behind more.
00:31:30.000If you look at the number of, if you look at the number of women who are getting college degrees versus the number of men who are getting college degrees, you can see that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women who are getting college degrees between 1970 and 2021.
00:31:44.000In 1970, 12% of women aged 25 to 34 had a bachelor's degree.
00:31:45.000In 1970, 12% of women aged 25 to 34 had a bachelor's degree.
00:31:50.000As of 2021, that number is 46 million.
00:31:51.000For men, the number went from 20% to 36%.
00:31:56.000So men went from almost double the number of bachelor's degrees as women to having about 25% fewer bachelor's degrees than women.
00:32:07.000So you see that women in the United States are outpacing men in college graduation.
00:32:13.000However, and you see that men are falling behind.
00:32:18.000You see the men are falling behind pretty dramatically.
00:32:20.000So why exactly is it that single women are voting for the government?
00:32:23.000To answer that, what you have to see is the household hours worked and female labor force participation rate over time.
00:32:30.000So if you take a look at this, this is kind of fascinating.
00:32:32.000These are some stats from a study from the University of Chicago showing the hours worked per adult and the labor force participation rate.
00:32:43.000So hours worked for single women versus married women.
00:32:48.000What you see is that for married women, the number of household hours increased dramatically between like 1955 and 1985.
00:32:56.000And for single women, it kind of dipped and then it stayed even.
00:33:00.000The labor force participation rate is the thing that really is worthwhile noting here.
00:33:04.000What you see is that married women Start to work in much, much bigger numbers than single women.
00:33:12.000Single women in 1955, 80% of them were participating in the labor force.
00:33:16.000In 1985, 80% of them were participating in the labor force.
00:33:19.000The great lie that single women weren't in the labor force in 1955, it's not true.
00:33:36.000Why did married women suddenly start working?
00:33:38.000The answer is a lot of the single women kept working when they got married.
00:33:42.000And what this meant is what Elizabeth Warren called the two income trap.
00:33:47.000When married women kept working as opposed to going home and staying with the kids, largely because of the idea that marriage was no longer a social institution, raising kids was no longer nearly as important.
00:33:58.000That women in the workplace, this was a vital, vital thing to do as a vital constituency to serve.
00:34:03.000Once that happened, you ended up with an actual gap emerging between single women and married women in terms of earnings.
00:34:09.000Because married women are now part of a two-income household.
00:34:12.000And those married women are earning, along with their husband, a lot more than the single women.
00:34:18.000So single women started working and kept working.
00:34:20.000Married women, over time, were not working.
00:34:23.000They would go from single and working to married and not working.
00:34:25.000And that would now be a one-income household.
00:34:27.000And then what you see is that they start working.
00:34:30.000So now you have a very high married labor force participation rate.
00:34:33.000And what that means is that those households do amazing because they have twice the income.
00:34:37.000This is, again, Elizabeth Warren used to be a kind of creative and independent thinker.
00:34:41.000If you go back to the early 2000s, kind of shocking, she wrote a book called The Two Income Trap.
00:34:45.000And what she said is what this was creating was inflation in real estate, for example, because now you had two incomes and they could pay for bigger houses.
00:34:54.000As opposed to the single woman who's locked out or the single man who is locked out or the one income household that was locked out.
00:35:51.000For single women, who's it going to be?
00:35:53.000For a lot of single women who may not have the bachelor's degree.
00:35:55.000Because remember, only 46% of women actually have a bachelor's degree, which means 54% do not.
00:35:59.000So what's going to happen to all the single women who don't have a bachelor's degree, or who do have a bachelor's degree but they aren't earning that much money?
00:36:05.000Where is that second income going to come from?
00:36:07.000Who's going to be the partner to them?
00:36:09.000Well, the answer is, again, because we eviscerated marriage as a social institution that was important for people to engage in, that provides fulfillment, that creates social structure, that creates social stability.
00:36:17.000Because of that, what you end up with is the Joe Biden famous life of Linda.
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00:37:58.000OK, so what do you end up with if you have an entire group of people, single women who are falling behind married women?
00:38:05.000Who are not engaged in a social structure, who have had the most important mediating institution in human existence, marriage, ripped away from them.
00:38:13.000They've been told that it's no longer essential.
00:39:03.000Once Leo is born, Linda begins receiving child tax credits of $300 per month, $3,600 annually to help cover essential costs like groceries, rent, and medicine.
00:39:12.000That's amazing because the government is now paying the check.
00:39:15.000As Leo grows up, the government helps cover the cost for his daycare, guaranteeing Linda doesn't need to pay more than 7% of her income on childcare.
00:39:21.000Now, again, It used to be in two parent married households before we decided that it was imperative and very important, not that women should be able to choose to work, but that women should work.
00:39:49.000Again, all of this because of the evisceration of marriage.
00:39:51.000When Leo leaves high school, he's able to enroll in a community college thanks to extended Pell Grants and investments in community college.
00:39:56.000So mom and dad don't work and scrape and save and earn in order to pay for the college education.
00:40:04.000Then, of course, Leo ends up as a turbine, a wind turbine technician.
00:40:09.000This is where we get into the realm of fantasy where wind turbines are going to power the future of the United States and create all the jobs.
00:40:15.000But the important thing to understand about Leo is that it's not about Leo.
00:40:30.000This is who Joe Biden is talking to, though.
00:40:32.000Because again, if you're a single woman falling behind your married peers, and you have been told all your life that marriage is actually a stymieing, patriarchal institution, and you look across the road, At the women who got married and have kids.
00:41:41.000The women who get abortions in America are almost entirely unmarried.
00:41:45.000Despite the fact that the left in the United States likes to claim.
00:41:48.000That the average woman who is having an abortion is actually a married mother of three, and she just can't deal with her fourth kid who may be down syndrome or something.
00:41:56.000First of all, bad enough, but that's not actually what the stats show.
00:41:59.000What they show is that only 14% of women who have sought an abortion, according to Guttmacher Institute, are married.
00:42:25.000Roe mattered to them because we have created an entire class of human beings in the United States that didn't exist for nearly all of human history.
00:42:32.000Human beings who are militantly in favor of dropping the things that make life most valuable, the things that make life most meaningful.
00:43:22.00068% of women who obtained an abortion voted for Joe Biden.
00:43:30.00032% lived in states that voted for Trump.
00:43:34.000So this is why Joe Biden is very much interested in the votes of single women.
00:43:40.000And this undergirds so many of the other culture battles that are currently taking place in the United States.
00:43:45.000This is why parents are now forming up as a block because it turns out that married women and married men are much more of a voter block and they're going to become a more cohesive voter block as they're alienated from the values that Joe Biden has promulgated and his party has promulgated and the left has promulgated in the United States for the last 50, 60 years.
00:44:00.000As that happens, parents are going to start looking across the aisle and they're going to say, I don't understand why you guys get to decide what happens with our kids.