Yeah...
Jesse Watters is being a bit tongue-in-cheek there, but he has a point.
"That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh." – Genesis 2:24
That's literally the second chapter of that old dusty book we've all forgotten about.
We're literally seeing biblical warnings play out before our very eyes.
"Then the Lord God said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.'" – Genesis 2:18
Oh look at that! Just two verses earlier!
And yet more and more men are alone today.
I'll share two examples. They are a bit crass, but show what a lot of single men are feeling right now:
Men will move mountains and slay dragons to get the girl. Entire civilizations are built when men have to be noble and hard-working to get the girl.
Women have the power to choose who they want to make babies with.
The problem is, when a woman has a child, she is vulnerable. She has submitted herself to that man and the children they will bear together. She's dependent in ways that are uncomfortable and out of her control.
To fix this issue, wokeism has told women that they should never allow themselves to be vulnerable – not even with a man who loves them. They should be loud and proud warriors who sleep around just like the boys!
And it works!
What's happening right now is that around 5-10% of men – the worst type of debauched, predatory, misogynistic dopes – are out there sleeping with the majority of single women. The vast majority of divorces are initiated by women, who then often join this rotating harem in the name of "liberation."
These women are hooking up with dozens of men every year, not realizing they are in a shared harem with the same few guys in town, while most normal single men have surrendered themselves to a lonely life of porn and bitterness.
Deep down, the women know it isn't working. Ladies, a huge portion of you are hooked on pills because you are insanely unhappy with life.
Men, for their part, return the favor by refusing to commit in their own way. Putting down the PS5 controller and giving up bar night with the bros to change dirty diapers isn't what they want. And when those smoking-hot gym brahs find out they got a woman pregnant, they'll pressure her endlessly to end the life of their child because they only want cheap thrills, not relationship.
And yet, although equally messed up, these broken men and women are responding in different ways to the chaos unfolding in our society, and it's telling.
- The men are recognizing the danger of this chaos and are bucking toward the political party that's pushing for order, objective truth, and the right to defend oneself.
- The women feel unsafe in this chaos and so they are streaming toward the party that's offering them protection, sensitivity, and "choice."
The Apostle Paul might say this trend is happening because men are less inclined to be taken astray by false philosophies for the sake of fake security (1 Timothy 2:14).
Which makes this next passage from Ephesians important:
[Trigger Alert!]
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
The squishy pastors with the skinny jeans like to squirm at this passage.
"See, 'submit' actually means..."
The reality is that civilization is merely a million tiny family units all working together.
And the bedrock of that family unit is the exclusive sexual bond created in the contract of marriage – where a man and woman pledge themselves wholly to each other in sickness and in health.
- Men are to do what is most difficult for them in their nature: Love. Show compassion. Be tender and gentle. Listen and take time to understand.
- Women are to do what is most difficult for them in their nature: Submit. Respect. Trade Disney-princess freedom for vulnerability – but out of vulnerability, strength, dignity, and legacy.
Together, they lay down their own freedom for something SO MUCH GREATER TOGETHER. And they cover over each others blind spots to work more efficiently for what is best.
"For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does." – 1 Corinthians 7:4
These political trends aren't coincidence. They are biblical inevitability.
As a conservative, it's no surprise to me that men and women on mission with each other in marriage would become more conservative – because conservatism represents the ordered, fixed way that God made us and the world.
So if conservative political parties want to survive, they might want to pay attention to marriage.
Outside of those called to singleness, the formula is easy:
- Get yourself to church and submit yourself to God.
- Submit yourself to a spouse in marriage.
- Fill the earth and make it submit to you.
