Ep. 1060 - Why The Democrats Want You To Stay Unmarried Forever
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AOC issues a public apology for failing to have pronouns in her bio. Plus, cops arrest a blind man for having a walking cane. It may sound like there's more to this story, but there really isn't. We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Democrats dominated the unmarried woman vote on Tuesday.
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You can see why the left is so determined to destroy marriage and the family.
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Also, were the results actually as bad for Republicans as everyone seems to assume?
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And Joe Biden considers investigating Elon Musk.
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AOC issues a public apology for failing to have pronouns in her bio.
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Plus, cops arrest a blind man for having a walking cane.
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It may sound like there's more to this story, but there really isn't.
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We'll talk about all of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Well, as it stands right now, the election results, as we are told,
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Republicans are inching closer towards a slim majority in the House
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The Senate races in a few key states have yet to be called now, two days later.
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I mean, how is it that a state in a modern and allegedly advanced country
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could take two days to count its ballots and still not be finished?
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How do we explain a state that has 60% counted of its votes,
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and then you check back 18 hours later, and they've counted 75% of their votes?
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How could this slow pace possibly be justified,
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especially when states like Florida, with far more ballots to count,
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manage to get them all tallied in like five hours?
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Well, it makes sense once you understand the process.
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And I think a lot of people don't understand the process.
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So in Arizona, for example, it takes a long time in Arizona.
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Well, what happens is each individual ballot has to be ferried up a mountainside
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on the back of a goat and delivered to a magical oracle who's sitting in a cave,
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who then communicates the results via a chain of smoke signals,
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which eventually get back to the election office,
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which then, after any necessary corrections are made, of course,
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At least that's the most encouraging theory that I can come up with,
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because the more likely explanation is that they take so long because they want to take so long,
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and there is no good reason why they could want that.
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I mean, there are reasons why they could want it, but no good ones.
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They don't fix the system because, for their purpose, the system isn't broken.
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It's working exactly as they prefer, according to their purposes.
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Yet, even as we wait for the mountaintop oracle to give us the final results,
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we can still arrive at certain conclusions about the state of our country and our culture,
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and none of them are all that encouraging, I'm afraid.
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The results here, too, are still being tabulated somehow, but with 90% reporting or so,
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it looks certain that the referendum is going to fail in Montana.
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Nearly a quarter of a million residents voted against the referendum,
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Well, it is supposed to guarantee medical treatment for infants born alive after a botched abortion.
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So to be clear, a majority of voters in Montana
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do not want to give life-saving medical treatment to a born infant outside of the mother's womb.
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They voted in favor of leaving the child to die horrifically and painfully.
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Now, there are some generous souls out there who want to make excuses for these voters,
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claiming the referendum was worded in a confusing way.
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And that can be a problem, certainly, and has been in the past.
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There's a referendum, and then you look at the way it's worded, and it's hard.
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In fact, we had one of those a couple months ago we were looking at,
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and it's just hard to tell what they're asking you.
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Here's the question that appeared on the ballot in Montana.
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An act adopting the Born Alive Infant Protection Act,
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providing that infants born alive, including infants born alive after an abortion,
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are legal persons, requiring health care providers to take necessary actions
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providing a penalty, providing that the proposed act be submitted
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to qualified electors of Montana, and providing an effective date.
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And then the voters were invited to vote either yes, approving the referendum,
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It's an act providing legal protection to infants born alive.
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I can't see how anyone could possibly be confused by that.
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Again, an act to provide legal status to infants born alive after an abortion.
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Yes, you want to give them that status and thus save their lives, or no, you don't.
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And if you say no, as it clearly indicates in the wording,
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you are voting to deny legal protections to born infant children.
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A majority of voters in Montana, Montana, okay,
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not typically considered a bastion of far-left activism, voted to deny those protections to children.
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We can comfort ourselves with the desperate hope that these Montana voters are just incredibly stupid
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rather than incredibly evil, but I think that would be a false hope.
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In fact, abortion and infanticide won on the ballot all across the country,
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Voters from Montana to Kentucky to more expected places like Michigan and California
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voted, often by considerable margins, to deny any legal protections to children born and unborn.
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It's not fun to consider, but it is a fact all the same.
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There is definitely, we cannot deny, a candidate quality problem in the Republican Party,
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but there is also, I'm afraid to say, a voter quality problem.
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Now, the results of these referendums and of the races themselves can largely be explained by,
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and blamed on, I suppose, two often overlapping groups, and that would be Gen Z and unmarried women.
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Now, it's been widely discussed, and it comes as a surprise to no one, I assume,
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that Democrats won the Gen Z vote by about two to one.
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But the unmarried woman factor is, I think, most notable.
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Unmarried women voted Democrat in the 2022 midterm elections by a significant margin,
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Compared to married individuals favoring GOP candidates this year,
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a CNN exit poll of 18,571 total respondents found 68% of single women mark their ballots
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for Democratic politicians, a 37-point margin over the Republican Party.
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Republicans gained 20% more votes from married men than Democrats,
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while single men voted 7% more for GOP figures.
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We should also note, importantly, that Republicans won the married woman vote by 14 points.
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So Republicans win clear majorities of the married vote,
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and still a slim majority of the married, of the rather unmarried man vote.
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But unmarried women swing heavily to Democrats.
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Based on this, we can also assume that they are largely responsible for these ballot measures
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enshrining abortion and infanticide across the country.
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I mean, that's why these measures passed, or didn't pass, as the case may be.
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The good news for Democrats is that the number of unmarried women in the country continues to
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In the middle of the previous century, so around 1940, 1950, a vast majority of the households
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in the country, 80% or so, were comprised of married couples and families.
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They were led by married couples or families, you know, 80%.
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That number fell to around half by the end of the century.
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So around 2000, we were about 50% of households were led by married couples.
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And within a decade after that, around 2010, it fell to less than half.
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So now a majority of households are not led by married couples.
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And the trend continues rapidly in that direction every year.
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This is very bad news for children, and not just because unmarried people are more likely
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to vote to strip children of basic legal protections, but also because the children born to these
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unmarried people, remember, we're talking about unmarried people, not necessarily childless
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So any children born to these unmarried people, by every conceivable measure, face greater obstacles.
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Children born to single parents are far more likely to have behavior problems, far more
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likely to have academic problems, far more likely to drop out of school, far more likely
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to get expelled, far more likely to end up in prison, far more likely to end up on drugs,
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far more likely to end up homeless, far more likely to fall victim to violent crime, on and
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It is extremely bad for children and for society to abandon marriage.
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But as is so often the case, what is bad for kids and bad for the culture is really good
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You know, they are, the Democrat Party is a, it's a vulture.
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You know, it feasts on the carcass of decaying civilizations.
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Now, it's easy to see why the Democrat Party is determined then to undermine marriage and destroy
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You can see why the left is openly hostile to the nuclear family, why they have declared war
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The nuclear family, led by a man and woman bonded in marriage, serves as a blockade, a
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fortress, standing against the left's political and cultural aspirations.
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They know they can't achieve their ultimate ends without blowing up the fortress, and that's
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what they've set out to do, and they're already having, you know, enormous success, and they're
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reaping enormous political rewards in the process.
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Now, why do unmarried people, especially women, tend to favor Democrats?
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Marriage and family life will tend to make you less selfish, tend to make you less obsessively
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focused on your own desires, tend to make you more invested in the future, more grounded,
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Selfish, shallow people will naturally find leftism more appealing, and they're also more
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What's more, when you're single, you're more vulnerable, and that's more likely to be dependent
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Democrats know this, which is one of the primary reasons they oppose a nuclear family.
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Nuclear families need less from the government, typically, and therefore are harder to control.
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The more reliant you are on the government, the more you can be controlled.
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The easier it is for the Democrats to extract your vote.
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Unmarried women in particular, if they're sexually active, you know, are going to be more likely.
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Democrats can get their vote, manipulate them, use emotional blackmail to get their vote
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with the abortion issue, because they're more vulnerable.
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And because they're not married, if they have a kid, they're more likely to see it as a crisis,
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Now, when you're married, and there are still married couples that get abortions,
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But if you're married and you have a kid, you're less likely to see it as a crisis,
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And that's what the marriage, this is what that's all about.
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It means, of course, that our political problem is, first, a cultural problem.
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And there is no solving the former without addressing the latter.
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And there is no addressing the latter if we're going to neglect marriage and the family.
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You know, for decades, conservatives have looked for ways to win the political game
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And they're looking for ways to win the culture, then,
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without defending and encouraging marriage and the family.
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If we want the cultural victory, and thus the political victory,
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our message should be, get married, have kids, stay married.
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If more people follow that, yes, Republicans will win many more elections.
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You know, if we were still at 80% married households,
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then Republicans would never lose a national election again.
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But more importantly, we will have saved our culture from annihilation.
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And more important still, people will be living purposeful, joyful lives.
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Which ultimately is the end result that Democrats are most desperate to avoid.
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There's a couple other points I wanted to make,
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just about the general, about the election results.
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And the first is, just to reiterate something that I think I said yesterday
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when I get this question about, you know, what are we going to do?
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And a question that's asked a lot now after the election results,
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but, you know, in general, it's a question conservatives always have.
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And what I'm always saying, and it might not be the answer people want to hear,
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but it's just the truth, that you have to look at this as a long game.
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It is not something that's going to be won overnight.
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If the red wave had materialized, exactly as a lot of people expected,
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and we had the big red wave, would that mean that the culture is saved?
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You know, you control maybe both houses of Congress for two years with a Democrat president.
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It would have done a lot that should have been done,
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and the primary thing is it would have delivered the rebuke to the Democrats
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Saving the culture and our civilization, again, that's a generational fight.
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Because it took generations for us to get here.
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We are right now in a, you know, we are in hostile, occupied territory, culturally speaking.
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We're the guerrilla fighters, the guerrilla warriors in the culture war.
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We're trying to regain it, recapture what was lost.
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I mean, look at Gen Z, dominated by, you know, a reliably voting Democrat.
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It means that the ultimate victory, if it comes,
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if we save Western civilization and it becomes a thriving,
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Maybe our children will, or maybe our children's children.
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We're going to be in the trenches, right, for our whole lives.
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to do the dirty work for the sake of future generations.
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You know, we used to be a society where people fought
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These days, we want the immediate satisfaction.
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We don't care about any victory that we don't get to see tomorrow.
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But that's just not the way this is going to be.
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That's the, you know, the attitude and the personality
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that we're going to need to adopt, if you don't already.
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But, you know, I think it's also worth noting that this
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perhaps is not as big of a disaster for Republicans
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We didn't get the red wave that was expected in all of that.
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the way that many conservatives are talking about it
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it's as if it was this crushing, resounding victory
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Which means that Biden's agenda is dead in the water.
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to the extent that he's even living in the first place.
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In fact, the New Yorker put out this tweet today
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and critical race theory fared depressingly well
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in the yesterday's superintendent and school board races,
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So Jessica Winter of the New Yorker is depressed today
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on a national level and in the national offices
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they didn't do very well in school board races.
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They didn't do very well in superintendent races.
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And so that's why, as I was emphasizing yesterday,
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I know the Republican establishment in particular,
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whether it's a win or a loss or somewhere in between,
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well, you see, this proves that all we should be talking about
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And we got to leave all this culture war stuff to the side.
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But yesterday's results prove exactly the opposite.
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In areas where conservatives leaned into the culture war
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You know, it's opposing the left's cultural agenda