The Ben Shapiro Show - All The Single Ladies Voted Democrat | Ep. 1609

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden celebrates all the single ladies who put the Democrats over the line during the midterms.

00:00:03.000 They examine why single women have become a reliable and large voting bloc for Democrats.

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00:02:29.000 Well, first, I want to start by saying Happy Veterans Day to all of the people who have served in our military.

00:02:34.000 Thank you so much.

00:02:35.000 Obviously, we have a debt we can never repay to you.

00:02:37.000 You fought for the Constitution, you fought for the country, and that's something that can't be blessed enough.

00:02:44.000 Thank you so much, and I hope you have a wonderful day.

00:02:46.000 Well, 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.

00:02:56.000 I 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.

00:03:05.000 Now, it does look as though Republicans have lost the Senate seat in Arizona.

00:03:08.000 It looks like Blake Masters is going to lose.

00:03:10.000 Most people are now forecasting that Blake Masters is too far behind to make up ground.

00:03:13.000 He's over 100,000 votes behind Mark Kelly in the Arizona Senate seat, which means that Republicans have to win both Nevada and Georgia.

00:03:19.000 Georgia is going to be a runoff. 1.00

00:03:20.000 They have to win both of those seats in order to take back the Senate.

00:03:24.000 That looks somewhat unlikely.

00:03:26.000 At this point, the vote count in Nevada is really, really close.

00:03:29.000 At this point in time, Laxalt has about a 9,000 vote advantage on Catherine Cortez Masto, and that's about 90% reporting.

00:03:38.000 Meanwhile, over in Arizona, a lot of eyes on the Carrie Lake race. 0.95

00:03:41.000 She is down right now about 27,000 votes.

00:03:44.000 Only 82% of the vote has actually been counted in Arizona.

00:03:47.000 Apparently, because they weren't aware that there was an election happening this year or something, it just took them by surprise.

00:03:51.000 No one really knows why it's taking them so long.

00:03:54.000 CNN actually has, believe it or not, a decent rundown on this.

00:03:56.000 In Arizona, CNN's decision desk estimates there are still 675,000 ballots to be counted.

00:04:01.000 The majority of those, about 400,000 ballots, are in Maricopa County.

00:04:04.000 That's the state's most populous county.

00:04:06.000 That includes Phoenix.

00:04:07.000 Of 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.

00:04:13.000 Those ballots have to be processed before they can be counted, leading to a lag time in tabulation.

00:04:19.000 Gates said we're now getting into what we call the late earlies.

00:04:21.000 So 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.

00:04:28.000 The total was a record, he added.

00:04:29.000 Those are expected to go for Lake by a not insignificant margin.

00:04:33.000 In 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.

00:04:39.000 Those ballots still need to be counted as well.

00:04:41.000 So it's going to take a long time.

00:04:43.000 In Pima County, that's Arizona's second most populous, officials said there were roughly 159,000 ballots left to be counted as Wednesday evening.

00:04:49.000 The county doesn't expect to complete the count until November 14th or 15th.

00:04:53.000 The uncounted ballots include more than 54,000 early ballots still being processed by the recorder's office.

00:04:58.000 Nevada still has mail-in ballots arriving as well.

00:05:00.000 Clark County received more than 12,000 postmarked ballots from the post office on Wednesday, according to the Clark County Registrar.

00:05:06.000 The number dropped significantly on Thursday.

00:05:08.000 The county received about 626 ballots from the Postal Service, but that is a very, very tight election.

00:05:12.000 It's quite possible that you'll end up with a hand recount in some of these states because things are so close.

00:05:16.000 Meanwhile, overall, the Republican Gains in the House seem to be shrinking fairly dramatically.

00:05:22.000 Steve 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.

00:05:34.000 They will end up with a 220 House majority.

00:05:38.000 It takes 218 to end up with just a sheer 218 to 217 majority.

00:05:42.000 That'd be an extraordinarily small majority, smaller currently than the majority the Democrats have.

00:05:47.000 Those are not amazing numbers considering that this was supposed to be, at the very least, a red tide election in favor of the Republicans.

00:05:54.000 Now, it's possible, we still don't have all the votes in, it's possible still that Democrats could maintain control of the House.

00:05:59.000 Now, that's unlikely because essentially Democrats would have to clean sweep the rest of the outstanding races. 0.78

00:06:07.000 With that said, it's not totally out of the realm of possibility.

00:06:11.000 Joe Biden has already called to congratulate Kevin McCarthy on becoming the prospective speaker of the House.

00:06:17.000 We'll have to see how everything shakes down.

00:06:19.000 Bottom line is dramatic underperformance by the House Republicans in a wide variety of races.

00:06:23.000 So 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.

00:06:33.000 Democrats did win the, what they call the House popular vote.

00:06:35.000 Now 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.

00:06:41.000 The electoral college is how you do it with the presidency.

00:06:43.000 House 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.

00:06:53.000 There are a couple of factors that people have thrown out there as possibilities for why the Democrats did better than expected.

00:06:58.000 So 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.

00:07:05.000 Thank 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.

00:07:11.000 There's only one problem.

00:07:12.000 There was no youthquake. 0.99

00:07:13.000 David 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. 0.98

00:07:22.000 Well, he put out on Twitter, there was no youthquake. 0.85

00:07:25.000 Turnout relative to 2018 was strongly associated with age, with turnout increasing starkly in older counties and decreasing the most in younger counties.

00:07:32.000 So the notion that a bunch of young people basically put the Democrats over the top is not true.

00:07:37.000 So who did put the Democrats over the top?

00:07:39.000 Well, 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.

00:07:54.000 So what exactly helped them mitigate their losses?

00:07:57.000 The answer is unmarried women. 0.99

00:07:59.000 Single women are the ones who helped put Democrats across the finish line in a lot of these races. 1.00

00:08:05.000 The Washington Examiner broke down the vote by marital status.

00:08:11.000 In their exit polling, what they found is that married men voted Republican over Democrat, 59 to 39.

00:08:16.000 Married women voted Republican over Democrat, 56 to 42.

00:08:20.000 Unmarried men, single men, voted Republican, 52 to 45.

00:08:23.000 And all the single ladies voted Democrat. 1.00

00:08:25.000 They 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. 0.76

00:08:33.000 Now, presumably he really just means single women because the married women voted for the Republicans.

00:08:39.000 And 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.

00:08:45.000 It'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.

00:08:54.000 Here is Joe Biden thanking all the ladies.

00:08:58.000 As I said, women in America made their voices heard, man.

00:09:04.000 I 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.

00:09:16.000 Well, guess what?

00:09:18.000 Y'all showed up and beat the hell out of them.

00:09:22.000 You beat the hell out of the justices?

00:09:24.000 That doesn't sound like bringing unity and peace, Mr. President.

00:09:27.000 But 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?

00:09:37.000 They are the things that shape your life.

00:09:39.000 They shape how you interact with society.

00:09:42.000 And the closer the institution is to you, the more it shapes your life.

00:09:45.000 Your family is a social institution.

00:09:47.000 We've treated it now as a private institution.

00:09:49.000 It is not.

00:09:49.000 Family is a social institution.

00:09:51.000 It has always been reinforced and undergirded by the rules of the road that exist in our communities, in our small-scale societies.

00:09:59.000 And typically, the way that you are shaped as a human being, you're born into a family.

00:10:01.000 Your family exists within a local community.

00:10:04.000 That local community exists within a broader political framework, within a civil society.

00:10:09.000 That local civil society exists within a state society, which exists within a federal society, right?

00:10:13.000 There are these layers.

00:10:14.000 into which you are born, and they all shape you.

00:10:17.000 When 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.

00:10:28.000 Because the only institution that actually helps you and shapes you is that institution.

00:10:33.000 And so this is what we've seen with the death of marriage.

00:10:35.000 A 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.

00:10:41.000 They've been very upset about the idea that marriage has gone by the wayside in the United States.

00:10:45.000 The 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.

00:10:53.000 The only institution that really matters in this viewpoint is not marriage.

00:10:56.000 Marriage is an adjunct.

00:10:58.000 It doesn't matter.

00:10:59.000 Marriage.

00:10:59.000 It's not an independent institution.

00:11:01.000 Family is not an independent institution anymore.

00:11:03.000 Essentially, family is just how you get together in your house.

00:11:06.000 It's a bonds of relationship.

00:11:08.000 It's about love.

00:11:09.000 It's not about the effect on society and the rules for your family.

00:11:13.000 are just kind of between who's in the household.

00:11:15.000 The 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.

00:11:27.000 You're now an atomized individual who lives in perhaps consensual relations with a small group of people.

00:11:33.000 And then over time, those those ties kind of fall apart.

00:11:37.000 And it's just you, the individual, floating atomistically through society, and the federal government.

00:11:41.000 And there's nothing in between, because all of the social fabric has been destroyed.

00:11:46.000 Marriage is the most obvious example of this, because marriage is the fundamental basis for all society.

00:11:51.000 Again, marriage was a social institution.

00:11:54.000 This is why you have a wedding in front of a public, for example.

00:11:56.000 This 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.

00:12:05.000 This has social ramifications.

00:12:06.000 The community has an interest in whether you stay together, for example, with your spouse.

00:12:10.000 The community has an interest in how you raise your kids.

00:12:12.000 That 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.

00:12:21.000 Marriage was always a social institution.

00:12:23.000 Everybody understands this.

00:12:23.000 This has been true throughout human history.

00:12:26.000 Only 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.

00:12:44.000 We treat marriage now with the casualness of you and a friend getting together for lunch, and that is not what marriage traditionally was.

00:12:51.000 This is why you've seen, for example, the wide acceptance of cohabitation as a substitute for marriage.

00:12:55.000 Because cohabitation is what marriage is now perceived as.

00:12:59.000 If you ask most Americans now, what's the difference between two people living together and two people who are married?

00:13:03.000 They'd have a very tough time telling you.

00:13:05.000 Now 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?

00:13:11.000 What they would say is, one of these things is living to, they used to literally call it living together in sin, right?

00:13:15.000 The idea would be that you're living without any sort of social imprimatur for your relationship.

00:13:20.000 And this is something not good.

00:13:22.000 You want a social imprimatur for your relationship?

00:13:25.000 You want a religious imprimatur for your relationship?

00:13:27.000 You want to be inculcated into an institution because institutions shape and guide you.

00:13:31.000 Cohabitation doesn't do anything of the sort.

00:13:34.000 It conveys no commitment.

00:13:37.000 What we've done in this country is that we've essentially gotten rid of that.

00:13:41.000 And so what we see is changing views of marriage, for example.

00:13:44.000 So 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.

00:13:53.000 Married adults are more satisfied with their relationships and more trusting of their partners.

00:13:56.000 That, of course, is not a shock, as we'll talk about.

00:13:58.000 None of this is actually good for the single ladies. 1.00

00:14:00.000 None of this is actually good for the country.

00:14:02.000 It turns out that the happiest women in America are the women who are married with kids. 0.99

00:14:07.000 Those are the happiest women in America.

00:14:09.000 Doesn't mean they shouldn't have a job.

00:14:10.000 Doesn't mean they can't work.

00:14:12.000 But 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.

00:14:19.000 What 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.

00:14:27.000 And it turns out that telling women that the things that are most meaningful to them in life Like, getting married and having kids.

00:14:34.000 That these things are simple sort of adjuncts to a successful life.

00:14:38.000 That maybe you do them, maybe you don't.

00:14:39.000 They're really not all that important.

00:14:40.000 You 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.

00:14:47.000 You'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.

00:14:54.000 That does not seem correct.

00:14:56.000 By any available sociological data, that does not seem correct.

00:14:59.000 And yet, that is what many people have been inculcated into.

00:15:03.000 And the institution of marriage does not shape people.

00:15:05.000 This is why, by the way, women vote differently if they are married and if they are single. 1.00

00:15:08.000 It's for two reasons.

00:15:09.000 One, the subgroup of women who get married tend to be more conservative.

00:15:12.000 And two, the institution of marriage actually does shape women. 0.99

00:15:14.000 Because your interests change.

00:15:16.000 You're now more interested in how your kids are brought up.

00:15:19.000 You're more interested in your family.

00:15:21.000 Not being ruled by the federal government.

00:15:24.000 By the federal government not getting between you and your kids, or you and your husband, or you and your local community.

00:15:29.000 Marriage actually changes people.

00:15:30.000 You can see that with men, by the way.

00:15:32.000 Men also change.

00:15:33.000 Not as greatly as women do, but they also change. 1.00

00:15:35.000 They get more conservative when they get married.

00:15:37.000 So when you undermine marriage in a society, what you end up doing is undermining conservatism.

00:15:41.000 Not particularly shockingly.

00:15:43.000 Young adults in the United States are particularly accepting of cohabitation, according to Pew.

00:15:47.000 78% 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.

00:15:52.000 But majorities across all age groups now share this view.

00:15:54.000 This is a radical shift in how society has worked, really since the 1960s and the rise of birth control.

00:16:00.000 Because 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.

00:16:08.000 It's about the externality of the kid.

00:16:09.000 But that's not really the reason why living together used to be considered morally wrong.

00:16:13.000 It was not just about the kid.

00:16:14.000 It was about the idea that living together without any serious long-term commitment is a sin against the other person.

00:16:21.000 That whether the person consents to it or not, it is not good for them and it is not good for you.

00:16:26.000 That a better thing to do is to put sex within the confines of a committed lifelong relationship.

00:16:31.000 Because this creates trust, it creates bonds, it creates social fabric.

00:16:35.000 It embeds you in time and in space.

00:16:38.000 These are good things.

00:16:39.000 We've broken all those boundaries.

00:16:41.000 Not religious people, by the way. 0.99

00:16:43.000 About 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.

00:16:52.000 But, 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.

00:17:03.000 Now, as far as what makes people happier, the answer is that what makes people happier actually is getting married.

00:17:11.000 If you get married, you are likely to have higher earnings.

00:17:13.000 You are likely to have more sexual satisfaction.

00:17:16.000 You are likely to raise your kids in a better way.

00:17:22.000 The notion that marriage does nothing for you is not particularly silly, but is not particularly true.

00:17:29.000 But what you see is that now, here's the key poll result from this Pew Research poll.

00:17:35.000 Most Americans don't see being married as essential to living a fulfilling life, which is kind of wild.

00:17:40.000 That is kind of wild.

00:17:42.000 Because 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.

00:17:49.000 And telling people this, and inculcating this into people, that it's not essential?

00:17:52.000 What's more essential?

00:17:53.000 Having working long hours?

00:17:55.000 Is that more essential?

00:17:57.000 What's more essential?

00:17:58.000 Sexual libertinism? 0.98

00:18:00.000 What exactly is more essential?

00:18:03.000 I struggle to think of a thing more essential than marriage, actually.

00:18:06.000 Only small shares of U.S.

00:18:07.000 adults say married is essential for a man 16% or a woman 17% to live a fulfilling life.

00:18:13.000 54% say being married is important, but not essential for each.

00:18:17.000 3 in 10 say being married is not important for a man or a woman to live a fulfilling life.

00:18:20.000 Now, 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.

00:18:28.000 It is essential for people to get married.

00:18:30.000 That doesn't mean that everybody will.

00:18:32.000 It doesn't mean that people can't live lives individually.

00:18:35.000 That are the best that they want to choose if they don't get married. 1.00

00:18:38.000 But is it an essential?

00:18:40.000 Yeah, it's an essential.

00:18:41.000 I would say having kids is essential to people's lives.

00:18:44.000 Social institutions again are breaking down.

00:18:47.000 Marriage is inherently a social institution.

00:18:48.000 It used to be a key component of what we used to call civil society in this country.

00:18:52.000 Once marriage started being seen as something else, once it started being seen as simply a private arrangement between two people, it began to collapse.

00:18:59.000 So this meant a couple of things.

00:19:01.000 One, 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.

00:19:09.000 This is why you have Joe Rogan talking with Matt Walsh about marriage.

00:19:12.000 And Joe is like, I don't understand why two people can't just get married if they love each other.

00:19:15.000 And Matt is like, it's a social institution.

00:19:17.000 That's why.

00:19:18.000 Because society has an interest in a man and a woman getting married and having kids. 0.90

00:19:21.000 It's two very different versions of what marriage is.

00:19:23.000 It's a definitional question.

00:19:25.000 It also means the concomitant decline of marriage altogether.

00:19:27.000 Because if it's really just about two people who love each other, why can't you do that without a marital document?

00:19:30.000 Why can't you do that without a prenup and all the complications of having to file taxes together?

00:19:34.000 Why don't you just get together and live together? 1.00

00:19:36.000 And that's what we're actually seeing.

00:19:38.000 You can see this in the marriage rates in the United States.

00:19:41.000 And what we're watching here is the slow roll death of Western civilization through the decline of marriage.

00:19:47.000 And you can see it in the United States.

00:19:48.000 You can see these stats.

00:19:49.000 So, this is a chart, for those who cannot see it, of 144 years of marriage and divorce in the United States.

00:19:55.000 What 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.

00:20:06.000 That stays relatively stable all the way until about the mid-1980s.

00:20:12.000 Here's what happens.

00:20:12.000 It starts to go up during the 1900 to 1910 era to just above 10 as increasing prosperity allows people to get married.

00:20:22.000 And then it goes way down during the Great Depression.

00:20:24.000 People stopped getting married because they can't afford to get married.

00:20:27.000 And then you see during World War Two that it spikes the rate of marriage.

00:20:32.000 And 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.

00:20:38.000 So you see a giant spike in divorce that happens right in 1946.

00:20:41.000 And then it kind of goes back down to the normal.

00:20:44.000 You have these very high rates of marriage up until about the early 1950s.

00:20:47.000 Now, there's sort of an artificial dip.

00:20:50.000 In the level of marriage between 1955 and 1965 or so.

00:20:53.000 What that is, is not that fewer people are getting married.

00:20:55.000 It's that there's a giant baby boom.

00:20:57.000 So there's just more people.

00:20:58.000 So 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.

00:21:05.000 That means that the rate is going to go down even if the same number of people year on year are getting married.

00:21:10.000 So this rate stays fairly stable, right?

00:21:12.000 About 10, 10 per 1,000 people are getting married every year in the United States.

00:21:17.000 And 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.

00:21:25.000 So from our height or average height, when you're talking about mid-1970s, like 11, Close to 12 sometimes.

00:21:33.000 Marriages per 1,000 people.

00:21:34.000 We're now down to a little, maybe 60% of that.

00:21:37.000 And it's a steady decline.

00:21:38.000 It's a very marked and very steady decline.

00:21:40.000 You can see it happening.

00:21:42.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:23:51.000 So, what exactly happened?

00:23:52.000 The answer is the redefinition of marriage.

00:23:55.000 Hey, the redefinition of marriage is what happened.

00:23:58.000 And the reason for the redefinition of marriage is because of the second thing on that chart, which is the divorce rates.

00:24:04.000 So what you see is that no-fault divorce becomes a thing in the United States starting in about 1970.

00:24:11.000 In 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.

00:24:21.000 Adultery, abuse, something that actually necessitated you breaking with your spouse.

00:24:27.000 Then, California led the way by signing no-fault divorce in 1969. 0.50

00:24:30.000 You start to see divorce rates skyrocket.

00:24:33.000 That'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.

00:24:39.000 The rates of divorce skyrocket from about 2 in 1,000 All the way up to about five in 1000s.

00:24:47.000 They more than double over the course of a decade.

00:24:50.000 Like significantly more than double over the course of the decade.

00:24:52.000 By early 1980s to mid 1980s, what you have is no fault divorce that is now taking place in nearly every state.

00:24:59.000 So what does that mean?

00:25:00.000 It means fewer people start getting married.

00:25:02.000 Why?

00:25:02.000 Because what's the point?

00:25:04.000 What's the point?

00:25:05.000 What exactly is the lock-in?

00:25:06.000 You may as well not get married.

00:25:07.000 Cohabiting is essentially the same as marriage.

00:25:09.000 If marriage is freely enterable and freely exitable, then what exactly is the point?

00:25:13.000 Why don't you skip the whole thing?

00:25:14.000 You may as well just cohabit.

00:25:15.000 And so this is what you've seen.

00:25:16.000 A 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.

00:25:23.000 And this, unsurprisingly, coincides with a rising share of singles in the United States.

00:25:30.000 You can see a rising share of U.S.

00:25:32.000 adults are now living without a spouse or a partner in the United States.

00:25:38.000 That is not particularly shocking, right?

00:25:39.000 You can see right here.

00:25:40.000 This is from 1990 to 2019 from the Pew Research Center.

00:25:43.000 For those who can't see the chart, what you see is that in 1990, about 67% of the population aged 25 to 54 was married.

00:25:47.000 As of 2019, that number was 53%.

00:25:48.000 age 25 to 54 was married. As of 2019, that number was 53%.

00:25:54.000 That's a serious decline.

00:25:55.000 You 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%.

00:26:09.000 So 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.

00:26:18.000 Because the definition of marriage changed and marriage itself as an institution declined.

00:26:23.000 This, not shockingly, coincides with the median age of first marriage rising dramatically by sex in the United States.

00:26:29.000 Because 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.

00:26:42.000 When we have kids, look, we have kids, right?

00:26:44.000 We have three.

00:26:46.000 There's a whole community built around people having kids.

00:26:48.000 Here's the way that it works in my community when somebody has a child.

00:26:52.000 First, there's a wedding.

00:26:53.000 Always in my community.

00:26:54.000 There is no single motherhood in the Orthodox Jewish community.

00:26:56.000 It's not a thing that happens.

00:26:57.000 So, you get married.

00:26:59.000 Then you have sex. 0.93

00:27:00.000 Then you have kids. 0.98

00:27:01.000 When you have a kid, the entire community comes around you.

00:27:04.000 I'd say almost every week in our community, there's a kid who's born.

00:27:08.000 And when there's a kid who's born, the entire community starts a meal train.

00:27:11.000 We have a WhatsApp group, and people just bring meals for like two weeks.

00:27:15.000 Minimum.

00:27:16.000 Anything you need.

00:27:17.000 You have a group of friends.

00:27:18.000 You have family.

00:27:19.000 You have the rabbi.

00:27:20.000 Everyone will get involved to make sure that mom has everything that she needs because this is a communal thing. 0.99

00:27:24.000 The community gets together to celebrate the birth of the child.

00:27:27.000 This is why family formation is a big thing.

00:27:29.000 There are weddings all the time in our community.

00:27:31.000 And it's wonderful.

00:27:32.000 It'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.

00:27:42.000 And the ramifications, by the way, for progeneration are pretty dramatic.

00:27:46.000 One of the stories that I saw recently is kind of amazing.

00:27:48.000 Israel just had its recent election.

00:27:49.000 Israel happens to be, by the way, the only Western country that has above replacement rates of childbearing.

00:27:54.000 They're about 2.5.

00:27:56.000 So, Israel, there's a woman who voted.

00:27:58.000 She's 101, voted in the last Israeli election.

00:28:01.000 She has 800 grandchildren.

00:28:03.000 800, sorry, great-grandchildren descendants.

00:28:07.000 Because she had like 10 kids and all of her kids had 10 kids and they all had 10 kids.

00:28:11.000 And that's what you end up with.

00:28:12.000 And that is not the way that it works in the United States right now.

00:28:15.000 Right now, you can see.

00:28:17.000 Look at the age, the dramatic age increase in marriage, right here.

00:28:22.000 So, in 1950, the average age of a woman getting married was a little over 20. 0.99

00:28:28.000 And the average age of a man was about 24.

00:28:30.000 By the way, those are exactly the ages at which I got married to my wife.

00:28:32.000 I was 24, she was 20.

00:28:33.000 Now you see, it starts to spike, starting in 1950.

00:28:37.000 It's still flat for men, men can entrail. 1.00

00:28:40.000 But then, it starts to rise.

00:28:43.000 By 2010, the average age of first marriage for women is about 27.

00:28:47.000 The average age of first marriage for men is over 28.

00:28:50.000 And that's just for the people who are getting married.

00:28:53.000 That's not counting all the people who aren't getting married.

00:28:56.000 If 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.

00:29:06.000 This 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.

00:29:11.000 The 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.

00:29:22.000 For single people, those institutions don't exist in the same way because, again, they're sort of left out of the bargain.

00:29:28.000 In the Orthodox community, if you're single, there aren't meal trains, right? 0.83

00:29:31.000 That's not the way that it works.

00:29:33.000 If you're married and you have kids and you just had a baby, then the meal train comes.

00:29:35.000 Okay, so, marital status of the US population in 2021 by sex.

00:29:39.000 So what you see is that 47.35 million men have never been married.

00:29:45.000 You see that 41.81 million women have never been married.

00:29:49.000 The 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.

00:30:02.000 Not sure why there's an imbalance there, theoretically.

00:30:04.000 I guess maybe there are five men who are married to two women or something.

00:30:07.000 Very strange.

00:30:07.000 In 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.

00:30:15.000 There's 68 million women who are currently married. 1.00

00:30:19.000 Okay, so that's now a major voter block.

00:30:20.000 And 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.

00:30:37.000 If 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.

00:30:53.000 Unmarried women completely cancelled out married women in the last election cycle. 0.85

00:30:57.000 That's because of that vast voter imbalance.

00:31:00.000 So, this raises a question.

00:31:01.000 Why are single women voting the way that they are? 1.00

00:31:04.000 Why do single women want more government? 1.00

00:31:06.000 Why do single women vote differently on abortion, as we'll see they do? 1.00

00:31:09.000 Why do they do all of this?

00:31:11.000 So, you might think, for example, that single women should actually vote for less government. 0.99

00:31:14.000 Because single women have more college degrees than men, for example. 0.53

00:31:17.000 If you're highly educated, maybe you earn more.

00:31:19.000 If you earn more, maybe you want fewer taxes.

00:31:21.000 Maybe you need fewer social services.

00:31:24.000 What you see, for example, is that women are now getting more college degrees and men are falling behind more.

00:31:30.000 If 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.

00:31:44.000 In 1970, 12% of women aged 25 to 34 had a bachelor's degree.

00:31:45.000 In 1970, 12% of women aged 25 to 34 had a bachelor's degree.

00:31:50.000 As of 2021, that number is 46 million.

00:31:51.000 For men, the number went from 20% to 36%.

00:31:56.000 So men went from almost double the number of bachelor's degrees as women to having about 25% fewer bachelor's degrees than women.

00:32:07.000 So you see that women in the United States are outpacing men in college graduation.

00:32:13.000 However, and you see that men are falling behind.

00:32:18.000 You see the men are falling behind pretty dramatically.

00:32:20.000 So why exactly is it that single women are voting for the government? 1.00

00:32:23.000 To answer that, what you have to see is the household hours worked and female labor force participation rate over time. 1.00

00:32:30.000 So if you take a look at this, this is kind of fascinating.

00:32:32.000 These are some stats from a study from the University of Chicago showing the hours worked per adult and the labor force participation rate.

00:32:43.000 So hours worked for single women versus married women. 1.00

00:32:48.000 What you see is that for married women, the number of household hours increased dramatically between like 1955 and 1985. 0.87

00:32:56.000 And for single women, it kind of dipped and then it stayed even.

00:33:00.000 The labor force participation rate is the thing that really is worthwhile noting here.

00:33:04.000 What you see is that married women Start to work in much, much bigger numbers than single women.

00:33:12.000 Single women in 1955, 80% of them were participating in the labor force. 0.97

00:33:16.000 In 1985, 80% of them were participating in the labor force.

00:33:19.000 The great lie that single women weren't in the labor force in 1955, it's not true. 0.96

00:33:22.000 They may have had different jobs.

00:33:23.000 They may have had jobs that weren't as lucrative.

00:33:25.000 They may have been discriminated against.

00:33:26.000 They were working.

00:33:27.000 Single women were working at a clip of about 80% in the 1950s.

00:33:30.000 And they're working at a clip of about 80% in 1985.

00:33:32.000 Married women is the difference. 1.00

00:33:35.000 Why?

00:33:36.000 Why did married women suddenly start working? 1.00

00:33:38.000 The answer is a lot of the single women kept working when they got married. 1.00

00:33:42.000 And what this meant is what Elizabeth Warren called the two income trap.

00:33:47.000 When 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. 1.00

00:33:58.000 That women in the workplace, this was a vital, vital thing to do as a vital constituency to serve. 0.99

00:34:03.000 Once that happened, you ended up with an actual gap emerging between single women and married women in terms of earnings. 1.00

00:34:09.000 Because married women are now part of a two-income household. 1.00

00:34:12.000 And those married women are earning, along with their husband, a lot more than the single women.

00:34:18.000 So single women started working and kept working. 1.00

00:34:20.000 Married women, over time, were not working. 1.00

00:34:23.000 They would go from single and working to married and not working.

00:34:25.000 And that would now be a one-income household.

00:34:27.000 And then what you see is that they start working.

00:34:30.000 So now you have a very high married labor force participation rate.

00:34:33.000 And what that means is that those households do amazing because they have twice the income.

00:34:37.000 This is, again, Elizabeth Warren used to be a kind of creative and independent thinker. 1.00

00:34:41.000 If you go back to the early 2000s, kind of shocking, she wrote a book called The Two Income Trap.

00:34:45.000 And 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.

00:34:54.000 As 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.

00:35:00.000 What does all of that mean?

00:35:01.000 It means that unpartnered adults are faring less well.

00:35:05.000 They can actually see the impact on single women. 1.00

00:35:09.000 Married women are now doing better than ever, but single women are doing worse in many ways than they ever have done. 0.99

00:35:16.000 Unpartnered adults are not faring as well as partnered peers on a range of outcomes, according to Pew Research.

00:35:22.000 So what you see here is that the number of partnered people who have completed at least a bachelor's degree is 41%.

00:35:28.000 Unpartnered people, 29%.

00:35:31.000 Median earnings.

00:35:33.000 Partnered adults, $49,000.

00:35:35.000 Single adults, $35,000.

00:35:39.000 The numbers are pretty stunning right here.

00:35:44.000 They're not faring as well.

00:35:45.000 So what does that mean?

00:35:46.000 Well, it means that they need a second income.

00:35:48.000 Who's that second income gonna be?

00:35:51.000 For single women, who's it going to be? 1.00

00:35:53.000 For a lot of single women who may not have the bachelor's degree. 1.00

00:35:55.000 Because remember, only 46% of women actually have a bachelor's degree, which means 54% do not. 0.87

00:35:59.000 So 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? 1.00

00:36:05.000 Where is that second income going to come from?

00:36:07.000 Who's going to be the partner to them?

00:36:09.000 Well, 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.

00:36:17.000 Because of that, what you end up with is the Joe Biden famous life of Linda.

00:36:21.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:37:58.000 OK, so what do you end up with if you have an entire group of people, single women who are falling behind married women? 1.00

00:38:05.000 Who are not engaged in a social structure, who have had the most important mediating institution in human existence, marriage, ripped away from them.

00:38:13.000 They've been told that it's no longer essential.

00:38:15.000 It's not important.

00:38:15.000 In fact, in many ways, it's an institution that hems them in and harms their creativity.

00:38:20.000 Well, they're going to require a couple of things.

00:38:20.000 So what do they require?

00:38:23.000 One, they might require some government help.

00:38:25.000 When single women are voting at a larger clip for bigger government, this would be the answer. 1.00

00:38:29.000 This is why Joe Biden knows his own constituency.

00:38:31.000 This is why you will recall that Joe Biden's campaign actually put out what they called the life of Linda.

00:38:37.000 The life of Linda is exactly who Joe Biden thinks he is talking to.

00:38:41.000 It is these women. 1.00

00:38:42.000 Quote, Linda is a working mother in Peoria, Illinois.

00:38:45.000 She works at a local manufacturing facility as a production worker and earns $40,000 per year.

00:38:49.000 She is pregnant with her son, Leo.

00:38:51.000 Now, where's dad?

00:38:53.000 It doesn't exist.

00:38:53.000 There is no dad.

00:38:54.000 Apparently it was a virgin conception.

00:38:56.000 No one knows.

00:38:58.000 Dad, dad does not.

00:38:59.000 Who's dad?

00:38:59.000 He's nowhere in the picture.

00:39:00.000 Joe Biden is dad.

00:39:02.000 The government is dad.

00:39:03.000 Once 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. 0.62

00:39:11.000 What a happy, fulfilled life.

00:39:12.000 That's amazing because the government is now paying the check.

00:39:15.000 As 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.

00:39:21.000 Now, 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.

00:39:30.000 It is important.

00:39:31.000 They must work.

00:39:32.000 Before that, it used to be that you didn't need daycare because daycare was basically a factory where you sent your kids.

00:39:38.000 Mom spent an awful lot of time with the kids. 0.98

00:39:41.000 When Leo turns three, he is then immediately shipped off to a government training center, a high quality pre-K program for free.

00:39:46.000 How exciting.

00:39:48.000 It's all very exciting.

00:39:49.000 Again, all of this because of the evisceration of marriage.

00:39:51.000 When Leo leaves high school, he's able to enroll in a community college thanks to extended Pell Grants and investments in community college.

00:39:56.000 So mom and dad don't work and scrape and save and earn in order to pay for the college education. 0.96

00:40:03.000 We just give it for free.

00:40:04.000 Then, of course, Leo ends up as a turbine, a wind turbine technician.

00:40:09.000 This 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.

00:40:15.000 But the important thing to understand about Leo is that it's not about Leo.

00:40:19.000 It's about Linda.

00:40:21.000 The life of Linda?

00:40:22.000 Does this sound like a fulfilling, happy life to you?

00:40:24.000 Where's Linda's engagement with her church?

00:40:26.000 Where's Linda's community?

00:40:27.000 Doesn't exist.

00:40:28.000 Where's Linda's husband?

00:40:29.000 Doesn't exist.

00:40:30.000 This is who Joe Biden is talking to, though.

00:40:32.000 Because 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.

00:40:45.000 And many of them also work.

00:40:47.000 And you say to yourself, maybe I'm missing out on something.

00:40:49.000 That doesn't feel good.

00:40:50.000 And so what do you need?

00:40:51.000 What do you really need?

00:40:52.000 You know what would have helped Linda here?

00:40:54.000 What might have helped Linda is if she never had Leo at all.

00:40:56.000 What might have helped Linda is if she'd had an abortion. 1.00

00:40:59.000 You wonder why single women in the United States are so invested in abortion? 1.00

00:41:02.000 Because marriage is not on the radar.

00:41:04.000 Marriage is not as important.

00:41:06.000 Of course, it isn't true for all single women.

00:41:07.000 But it's true for a large segment of single women. 1.00

00:41:09.000 Is that if they're militantly single, if the idea is I'm happy because I'm single.

00:41:13.000 Single is great.

00:41:13.000 Single is freedom.

00:41:15.000 But one of the aspects of female freedom would be not being saddled with a child, as Barack Obama once said. 1.00

00:41:19.000 If my daughter made a mistake, I wouldn't want her to be punished with a child.

00:41:22.000 Now, most of us don't see child as punishment.

00:41:24.000 We see it as one of the goals of life is to have children.

00:41:26.000 But because we've eviscerated marriage and marriage is a social institution, Then kids become sort of like a purse or like a dog.

00:41:32.000 Do you need a kid?

00:41:33.000 Is the kid good for you?

00:41:34.000 What if you get pregnant with the kid? 1.00

00:41:37.000 It's kind of inconvenient.

00:41:38.000 Let's be real about this.

00:41:40.000 And this is what you see.

00:41:41.000 The women who get abortions in America are almost entirely unmarried.

00:41:45.000 Despite the fact that the left in the United States likes to claim.

00:41:48.000 That 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.

00:41:56.000 First of all, bad enough, but that's not actually what the stats show.

00:41:59.000 What they show is that only 14% of women who have sought an abortion, according to Guttmacher Institute, are married.

00:42:06.000 31% are cohabiting.

00:42:08.000 46% are never married and single.

00:42:11.000 9% are previously married but now single.

00:42:15.000 That is the gap.

00:42:16.000 That is the breakdown.

00:42:17.000 You wonder why abortion sent single women to the polls in big numbers and why they voted 68 to 31 for Democrats?

00:42:23.000 Because Roe did matter to them.

00:42:25.000 Roe 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.

00:42:32.000 Human beings who are militantly in favor of dropping the things that make life most valuable, the things that make life most meaningful.

00:42:42.000 That's not their fault.

00:42:44.000 And again, there are some single women who don't fit into this box. 1.00

00:42:46.000 It's just the thing they want to do.

00:42:47.000 They have a great life.

00:42:47.000 And yeah, they're happy.

00:42:48.000 But that is not what the social science statistics show.

00:42:50.000 The vast majority of people who live a lifelong single existence, it's particularly true of women, lifelong single existence, no kids. 1.00

00:42:58.000 That is not a recipe for happiness.

00:43:00.000 It is not.

00:43:00.000 I'm sorry to break it to you.

00:43:01.000 I'm sorry if this is offensive to people.

00:43:03.000 It is not a recipe for broad scale human happiness.

00:43:05.000 It is not the recipe for a successful society.

00:43:07.000 By the way, the people who also get abortions, they live in blue states.

00:43:10.000 There are single women living in blue states. 1.00

00:43:13.000 So you wonder why exactly single women living in blue states are voting for Democrats? 1.00

00:43:19.000 That would be the answer.

00:43:22.000 68% of women who obtained an abortion voted for Joe Biden. 0.63

00:43:30.000 32% lived in states that voted for Trump.

00:43:34.000 So this is why Joe Biden is very much interested in the votes of single women.

00:43:40.000 And this undergirds so many of the other culture battles that are currently taking place in the United States.

00:43:45.000 This 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.

00:44:00.000 As 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.

00:44:07.000 This has educational implications.

00:44:09.000 The same election where single women showed up to vote for Democrats, for Congress, because they wanted to preserve abortion. 0.97

00:44:15.000 The same election.

00:44:16.000 Pretty much every school board in the country moved to the right because you know who's animated to vote on behalf of their kids?

00:44:21.000 People who have kids.

00:44:22.000 You know what those people actually care about?

00:44:25.000 Militating social institutions like marriage and local community and how their schools work.

00:44:29.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing now.

00:44:31.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:44:32.000 We'll be getting into Donald Trump attacking Ron DeSantis and Glenn Young.

00:44:35.000 And plus, Lila Rose from Live Action stops by to discuss the effects on the pro-life movement of the election this week.

The Ben Shapiro Show - November 11, 2022

All The Single Ladies Voted Democrat | Ep. 1609

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