Why did Women Move Left, While Men Didn't?

Summary

The Charlie Kirk Show

Episode: Why did Women Move Left, While Men Didn't?
Date: January 22, 2026
Host: Charlie Kirk
Guests: Sean Davis, Vittorio, Blake, Tyler

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Overview

This episode dives deep into the political and cultural divergence between men and women, particularly why women have moved sharply left in recent years while men have remained largely unchanged in their political leanings. Charlie Kirk, his team, guest Sean Davis (co-founder and CEO of The Federalist), and essayist Vittorio explore this trend through sociological, evolutionary, cultural, and technological lenses. The discussion centers around the impact of social media, the nature of power in politics, and the collapse of traditional family structures.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Virginia as a Microcosm of National Politics

[01:09–04:33]

• Sean Davis discusses how Virginia, traditionally a purple state, is a testing ground for radical Democratic policies. Despite only narrowly winning elections, Democrats in power implement their full agenda.
• Example legislation includes loosening oversight of social services and expansive abortion policies.
• Sean:

  "When Democrats get in power because they understand power, they wield it ruthlessly and quite honestly. As horrifying as I find what she's doing, I'm honestly jealous... Democrats are putting on an absolute clinic in what you actually do when you're in power." (04:17)

2. The Nature of Power and the “Spiritual War”

[06:19–13:29]

• Sean Davis attributes the leftward shift and extreme policies to a fundamentally spiritual struggle—good versus evil, order versus chaos.
• Sean:

  "It's entirely spiritual... The Democrat Party is evil. Let's just come out and say it. It's evil. It's why it wants to kill babies. It's why it wants to eviscerate borders." (06:43)

• The team discusses how Democrats reward their constituents and enforce their will, while Republicans are seen as hesitant or cowardly in wielding power.

3. Year One Review: Trump’s Presidency

[13:11–18:15]

• The hosts and Sean Davis review Trump’s first year “back” in office, highlighting:
  • Border security and immigration crackdowns
  • Foreign policy successes (e.g., actions against Venezuela and Iran)
  • Changes to vaccine policy and the food pyramid
• Ongoing frustration with congressional inaction is voiced, advocating potentially for removing the filibuster to force legislative accountability.
• Sean:

  "Having a great president is indispensable. You can't get things done without a great president. But you need more than just a president doing stuff... You have to have people making everything he's doing permanent law." (14:58)

4. Why Did Women Move Left—While Men Didn't?

[19:28–38:34]

• Vittorio joins to discuss his viral essay explaining why women have moved radically left, while men have remained stable.
• Key thesis: Biological and evolutionary differences make women more susceptible to group consensus and empathy-driven motivations, which social media platforms amplify.
• Vittorio:

  "Men and women are just fundamentally different and we can't really do anything about this... Women, to be protected, they need something that keeps them safe. And once the safety lacks ... they need to find protection and safety into the group." (20:59, 21:17)
  "The Internet is a giant algorithmic consensus builder." (22:30)

• Technology acts as a “consensus engine,” amplifying women’s evolutionary need to belong and gain approval from the group.
• Men, in contrast, are more adapted to tolerate isolation or social exclusion due to evolutionary pressures (e.g., hunting, combat).
• Blake:

  "Women's part of women's social roles are norm enforcers, consensus builders. This is sort of the way that they're hardwired." (28:34)

• The hosts note that married women and women with children are less susceptible to this polarization, supporting the traditional family and marriage as a stabilizing force.
• Vittorio:

  "One solution would be to bring back families and to have more kids... By making it so easy to rescind [marriage], people are like, if it's just a piece of paper, what's the point?" (25:46, 26:34)

5. The Fertility Crisis and Its Political Implications

[32:38–38:34]

• Charlie Kirk:

  "Young men want to be part of a political movement that doesn't hate them... we are drowning in toxic femininity." (30:56)

• The show links the leftward movement of women to declining fertility rates, with conservative women having significantly more children than liberal women.
• The guests discuss whether a natural selection effect will occur, where low-fertility ideologies shrink over time.
• Vittorio:

  "They will self-select out, but only if the kids that then are being had are protected. So that's another problem." (33:27)

• Italy is given as an example of what not to do, demonstrating the dangers of extreme individualism and loss of communal values.
• Israel, by contrast, is praised as a values-based society where fertility remains high due to strong cultural and religious commitments.
• Tyler:

  "Ultimately it's a value fight. And that's tough because values are tough to change." (36:29)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Sean Davis on Democrats and Power (06:43):

  "The Democrat Party is evil. Let's just come out and say it. It's evil. It's why it wants to kill babies... that's who is being rewarded here."

• Charlie Kirk on the Spiritual Battle (12:05):

  "We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and darkness and spirits... there is a supernatural dimension."

• Vittorio on Social Media's Role (22:30):

  "The Internet is a giant algorithmic consensus builder ... men and women react differently to different news ... women are more empathetic, more agreeable, have higher neuroticism."

• Blake on Growing Gender Divide (28:34):

  "Women's part of women's social roles are norm enforcers, consensus builders. This is sort of the way that they're hardwired."

• Charlie Kirk on "Toxic Femininity" (30:56):

  "Young men want to be part of a political movement that doesn't hate them... we are drowning in toxic femininity."

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Virginia’s Legislative Shift/Democratic Strategy: [01:20–04:33]
• Spiritual Framing and Politics as Power: [06:19–13:29]
• Trump Year-in-Review (Policy Highlights): [13:11–18:15]
• Why Did Women Move Left? (Vittorio’s Thesis): [20:16–27:35]
• Marriage, Family, and Solutions to Polarization: [25:46–29:31]
• Fertility Crisis and the Value Fight: [32:38–38:34]

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Conclusion

In this rich and multi-faceted episode, Charlie Kirk and guests explore the increasingly stark gender divide in Western politics, especially among young people. Social media is identified as a powerful consensus engine driving women leftward by exploiting empathetic and group-oriented evolutionary tendencies, whereas men have stayed ideologically stable. The conversation underscores the importance of family, marriage, values-driven communities, and the dangers of unchecked individualism. The episode concludes with a call for a value revolution in the West, reinforcing Christian and communal principles as the ultimate counter to societal fragmentation.

Transcript

[Charlie Kirk]

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[Blake]

All right, welcome back. Hour two, the Charlie Kirk show is underway and we have Sean Davis, co founder and CEO of the Federalist joining us. Sean, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. Good to have you, my friend.

[Sean Davis]

Good to be back. Thank you.

[Blake]

I called you about this story because I am raising a five alarm fire for the state of Virginia. What is happening there I think is a precursor that portends ill for the entire country, especially with the midterms. You get a lot of people talking about, oh, I don't feel good about the midterms. I think we can win the midterms. I think the economic numbers are going to give us win to our sales, but it's going to be an uphill battle. Plus you got the Senate races, you got House races that are going to be hotly contested, Governor's mansions, all of those races in between. Tell us about Virginia. You've spent a lot of time in Virginia. Your partner Molly's based in Virginia, I believe, over at the Federalist. And I mean we all have a lot of friends there. This is bad what they are doing in a matter of days. This is like the shock and awe first hundred days of the Trump administration. Only Democrat style in a blue state that only went for Kamala Harris by six points.

[Tyler]

With a legislature that will pass things.

[Blake]

With a legislature that works, Democrats will actually pass things, unlike, you know, our rowdy bunch of congressional folks that are very independent minded. Sean, what do you make of this?

[Sean Davis]

Yeah, Virginia is fascinating, cuz yes, in presidentials it's been blue, I think since 08. But it's not that blue of a state. So they just had a red governor in Glenn Youngkin for four years. It's not uncommon for them to have red majorities in, in the state legislature in either house. So this isn't a massive blue state like a Vermont or a Massachusetts or New York. It's actually pretty purple. A lot of people like to analogize it to Colorado. It's not, it's definitely more towards the center than Colorado, but it's faced a similar takeover. And I think what's happening there is a, is a major microcosm, a really important microcosm for what's happening in the country writ large. And you're seeing it in this woman. Abigail Spamberger, career Democrat, was a former CIA stooge. She presents as a moderate. Look, I'm just like a pretty blonde, nice moderate lady. When she is a radical left wing ideologue. And when she came in, despite Virginia not being a super blue state, she does what Democrats always do because Democrats understand power. She's going in and even though she only got, we'll say like 55% of the vote, whatever it is, she's not saying, oh, we're only going to do 55% of what we want. We are going to do 100% what we want because you can't do anything to stop it. And it's scary because the Democrat party's become so radical. It's abortion on demand. It's gutting a law that protected babies who survived abortions. It's making illegal immigration enforcement illegal itself. It's making the whole state a sanctuary. It's banning guns, it's doing speech crackdowns. When Democrats get in power because they understand power, they wield it ruthlessly and quite honestly. As horrifying as I find what she's doing, I'm honestly jealous because I would love to have a party representing me all throughout Washington, not just in the White House, that understands power, how to attain it, how to maintain it and how to wield it. Cuz the Democrats are putting on an absolute clinic in what you actually do when you're in power.

[Blake]

Yeah, that's really well said, Sean.

[Tyler]

We were talking during. So you've seen.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

The abortion stuff, but this really remarkable one that was introduced yesterday which it would only. It's a simple bill to rewrite that when a state agency is administering federal funds, they are not allowed to impose a requirement on nonprofits to check whether anyone receiving a benefit is eligible for.

[Blake]

That benefit, which is remarkable. So Their lesson that they are gleaning from the Somali fraud scheme that has robbed U.S. taxpayers of probably anywhere between 10 and 19, $20 billion and counting. We'll see how big it gets when we start uncovering Washington. We start uncovering Maine. I'm told there are new immigration crackdowns happening in Maine right now targeting the Somali community. But their takeaway from this is that we want to block oversight, we want to block accountability. And I just cannot get over this, Sean, that anything we do, even if it makes sense, even if we cure cancer, their party's reaction is to run the other way and to just put their head in the sand, complete ostrich, act like it didn't happen and defend what they think are their values. What are their values here, Sean? That they like fraud, that they like misuse of taxpayer funding. And there has to be a federal response to stuff that. Is this insane? But I don't know if this is a psychological dilemma. I don't know if this is something that needs to be studied from a sociological level, but this is patently insane. And I cannot for the life of me look at what Donald Trump and the President, immigration, economic, what we're accomplishing and see why they hate it so much.

[Sean Davis]

Oh, I think it's easy. It's an uncomfortable answer, but it's an easy one in that it's entirely spiritual. If you look at something and you want to figure out which one is the good side and which is the bad side, look at the side that wants things to be ugly and chaotic and disorderly and manic. That's the bad side. Look at the side that wants to make things beautiful, that believes in order and putting things where they belong. That's the good side. And it's because the good reflects our Creator, who is perfect and good and orderly. We worship and we were made by a God of order, not a God of chaos. So I think it is absolutely spiritual at its very core. And we're never going to get around that. So often we try to talk around it and be like, well, it's about ideologies and philosophies and blah, blah, blah. That's all downstream from your worldview, which is built on a foundation of where you see yourself in the cosmic order, whether you believe in a great creator, whether you believe in inherent good and inherent evil. The Democrat Party is evil. Let's just come out and say it. It's evil. It's why it wants to kill babies. It's. It's why it wants to eviscerate borders. It's why it wants to eliminate mandatory minimum sentence for rapists, for child exploiters, for people who attack cops, for people guilty of manslaughter and murder. And I will say on Spamberger, again, Democrats understand power. You'll hear Republicans, when they get in power, because they're terrified of wielding it, say things like, well, politics is the art of the possible. And they'll lecture you very smugly on it. No, it's not. Politics is about rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies. And the Democrats do it brilliantly. So the foreigners, the Somalis, the scamsters, the fraudsters. That is the Democrat Party's base. That is who is being rewarded here. The Democrat Party cannot exist without shipping these people in, making them rich, and getting them to use their fraud bucks to elect more Democrats. So that's what they're doing. And again, there is a lesson here for Republicans to learn. I'm sure they're gonna learn the wrong one. But the lesson here is when you get in power, you wield it ruthlessly, and you support the people who put you there.

[Blake]

Yeah, I mean, listen, probably I'm naive, Sean, but when you say that politics is about punishing your enemies and rewarding your friends, there's like this part of me that remembers watching the World War II movies and the John Wayne movies, and, like, I gotta think that we as Americans can band together at some sort of elevated pitch than that, because, man, that's a really dark reality. I don't disagree with you functionally. I think of this in terms of the American empire, right? Like, listen, we're gonna exert our force abroad because we're the most powerful and we're gonna take care of our own people. I totally get that. But when you come to the domestic front, you hope that it's gonna be different, but it's hard to disagree with you, man. It's hard to disagree with you that when you are confronted by an ideological force that is so dark, that is killing babies, that wants chaos, that wants criminals on its streets, I mean, this is what they're doing. They're defending criminal illegals that are child rapists.

[Tyler]

They're very evil. I actually will. I actually do a little disagree with this. You hear this? It's all about rewarding friends, punishing enemies. It's this Carl Schmidt thing. We can talk about him sometime.

[Blake]

You've sparked a debate here.

[Tyler]

Oh, definitely will. It definitely will. But I think it is important to message like, don't be. Don't be a wuss. Don't be a coward and like, actually think about what you're able to do. Because Republicans love to just be inert. They're kind of lazy. It's like, think about all the DEI departments that just sat around in red states forever. That's not. You don't need to frame that in terms of, oh, reward allies, punish enemies. You can just frame that in terms of don't be an idiot. Don't do things that are obviously against your values and interests.

[Sean Davis]

But they're not. They're not lazy. Ask Zelensky how lazy they are. They will shovel bucks at America into that little midget's mouth fast than you can blink. They're not lazy. They're cowards. And they have a very different idea of who they're supposed to be serving than we are. And I think that's the main problem.

[Blake]

Yeah, and by the way, Sean, I completely agree with you. This is a spiritual war. I've got a clip from Charlie Teed up that we're going to play on the other side of this break. That underscores your point and I completely agree. At some level, the insanity just becomes so brazen and so you, you know, nonsensical. That's what it has to be. It's demonic.

[Tyler]

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[Blake]

All right, Sean Davis, just to underscore your point, you are the co founder CEO of the Federalist. Great publication. I check it every day. That is not a lie. You guys are doing amazing work. Huge Service to our country. I'm gonna play this is Charlie with Tucker talking about this exact thing. 351.

[Charlie Kirk]

This is why your faith is the most important thing. Because for those of us that are Christians, you actually see what's going on, which is that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and darkness and spirits. That there is a spiritual war here. There is a God and we are not him. That there is an entire dimension of angels and demons and spirits that are constantly struggling around us and that there is a supernatural dimension.

[Blake]

Charlie was super tuned into this. I think we are as well here, Sean. So I totally agree. I don't know how else you explain the insanity that we've lived under. And it almost feels like in the era of Trump, it's like the demons are shrieking and so now they're just like total mask off. The veil is torn. They're out in the open amongst us. Because how else do you explain the radicalness and the brazenness of a D +6 state? Going full Marxist. Going full Marxist. But I digress, Sean, unless you want to chime in on that. But I do want to talk about a year in review.

[Sean Davis]

For me, kind of it was made obvious as the whole trans thing reared itself. Disgusting little head. If you can't agree on just the basis of reality of whether boys are boys or girls and girls. Clearly there's something going on, but beyond the conscious rational level. And it can only be spiritual.

[Blake]

Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so that's the bad and the ugly. But there is good happening. One year in review of President Trump. Let's just play part one of this. 347. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. There have been 92 people charged in.

[Sean Davis]

This fraud scheme in Minnesota. Maduro, Venezuela. What they're doing, they're trying to kill our kids. Trying to bring drugs into our country. It's not going to happen. We're going to come after you.

[Vittorio]

Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sits in.

[Sean Davis]

A federal jail in Brooklyn, escorted by.

[Blake]

Drug Enforcement Administrator Terry Cole.

[Sean Davis]

Thanks to the relentless work of our prosecutors and our federal agents, El Mayo will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

[Blake]

Our safety will be restored.

[Sean Davis]

Murders in the US Are on pace.

[Charlie Kirk]

For the largest one year drop.

[Vittorio]

Metro Police say homicides and robberies are.

[Sean Davis]

At multi year lows. The numbers released by D.C. police show a safer year for the city in 2025.

[Blake]

And that's just part one. There's a part two that the administration put that out. I thought it was fair and it kind of highlighted and reminded me of some things. RFK Jr was on with Jesse Waters last night on Fox. He said that, you know, he was asked what was your number one accomplishment? And it kind of surprised people. And he said, well, it was actually most favored nation. Drug prices are dropping. Trump used tariffs to leverage as leverage to negotiate with European partners and drug companies. A lot of good stuff is happening, Sean, in a historic sense. Put this, put Trump's one year in office in context for us. How good has it been? What would you like to see more of?

[Sean Davis]

Well, I think it's been spectacular. You know, Trump has been putting points on the board, across the board. He's completely sealed the border. He's fixed the border. He's dealing with immigration. He's doing mass deportations. He's made America safer. Number one, by not doing stupid nonsense everywhere. And number two, by actually going and dealing with threats discreetly as he finds them, and then just leaving it at that. A good example there would be the Iran nuclear threat, which he dispatched, and then going in and kidnapping the dictator of Venezuela like he's some sort of historical artifact in a Nick Cage heist movie. Then you have the Maha stuff. You have RFK Jr kind of resetting these insane vaccine schedules that we had for babies. He's fixed the food pyramid, which for decades was nonsense and was just telling people, yeah, yeah, you need to be just gorging yourselves on carbs because that's what your body needs. So we've seen changes on that where I think we've really been lacking. And this isn't a Trump problem at all. It goes back to what we were talking about earlier is total inaction and an unwillingness to do what needs to be done in the Republican Congress. And what we've learned is that having a great president is great. It's indispensable. You can't get things done without a great president. But you need more than just a president doing stuff. As the head of the executive branch, you have to have people making everything he's doing permanent law. You have to have them going and making it permanent.

[Blake]

So nuke the filibuster.

[Tyler]

But nuke the filibuster if you can pass stuff.

[Blake]

But to your point, it would actually make a zombie Congress actually do stuff again. It would.

[Tyler]

It would make Congress real. But that. Well, it might be that you make Congress real only so people can really very clearly see the members of their own party who are. It's like you put on the. They live glasses.

[Blake]

Yeah, right.

[Tyler]

See what the reality is.

[Blake]

But at Least we have the veto with President Trump right now. I mean, so if they pass crazy stuff, okay, we get the veto, and then hopefully by 2028, we regain some mojo. I don't know. I'm becoming way more convinced that the only way to make this fake, you know, democracy kind of thing that we've got going on right now, where it's basically ruled by executive order and Congress is completely paralyzed, is you gotta nuke the filibuster, let the cards out on the table. Let's get. Let's. Let's see where things lie. I mean, I know there's risk in that, but there's no other option to get immigration fixed. There's no other option to get voter ID fixed, Sean.

[Sean Davis]

Well, yeah, so I agree. I think in a vacuum, you know, it's easier to pass things with 50 plus 1 than it is with 60. But the problem is the composition of that 50 plus 1. And I think if we were to go in and nuke the filibuster today, I don't think they would pass anything. I really don't. I think the composition of Republicans in Washington is such a huge problem that what we actually would need if we wanted to get things passed was move the threshold down to about 35. I think then you could actually get Republicans to do stuff. And so I think it's really, really important, especially as we're heading into a primary season. Republican voters have to wake up. It's not enough to send a Republican to Washington. You have to send the right Republican. Yes, to Washington. And if you don't, it doesn't matter what your vote threshold. They'll have find a reason to not do anything.

[Blake]

Sean, what. What we need to do is we need to have you back on with Tyler, and we need to go through a list of. Of the races and give people direction on it. Honestly, we need to go race by race. Let's do that soon, my friend. All right.

[Sean Davis]

Love it.

[Blake]

Thank you for making the time.

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[Blake]

Vittorio, you are joining us now. You had welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. It's great to have you. We talked earlier this morning. Just prepping for this. There was a Bill Ackman tweet where political scientists data quants have been telling us this for a half decade. Women have moved radically leftward at a scale and speed with no modern precedent, while men have on the whole remained largely steady and unchanged. You and Bill Ackman asked the question why? And you responded and you wrote this really amazing article that went viral across the Internet. I'd never seen your account before that, but now I've seen you multiple places. You're now in the algorithm everywhere. So congrats on breaking through. And so please welcome to the show and tell us, give us the basis of your thesis here.

[Vittorio]

Well, thanks for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. My thesis, I don't know, personally speaking, I don't think I've enlightened people. I mean, I just tried to put together things that I thought were known. But first I'm really glad that it was well perceived and well received. But my, my core thesis is that because of some reason there was this convergence of different technologies that allowed this to happen. And the, the reason for this happening is that men and women are just fundamentally different and we can't really do anything about this.

[Blake]

A shocking statement.

[Vittorio]

We evolved under different, apparently, yes, but biological men, biological women are fundamentally different. And we evolved after under different kind of selection pressure, under kind of evolutionary pressure that were very different. And that's because we're biological different. I mean, we are a dimorphic species. We evolve as men and women and we have very different kind of characteristics like just I mean, on a very simple level in terms of strength and so women need more defense and men don't Necessarily have this. So women, to be protected, they need something that keeps them safe. And once the safety lacks, because they don't have, I would say, strong, a good man in their life, then they need to find protection and safety into the group. And these, when technologies as like social media and smartphones are available, then the consensus comes from the group. Like the group gives you, the consensus gives you this protection. And so it's much more easy for them to be polarized because they need to be in agreement with the group to feel a sense of belonging.

[Blake]

Yeah. And you say, you describe social media, the rise of social media as basically the triggering event. And when I thought, this is something that I've thought for a long time. So to your earlier point, these are ideas that I've sort of known and I've been thinking around, but you concisely put it into this one article and it's basically like you got Facebook launched in 2004, it was college until 2006. The iPhone launches in 2007. But then in about 2012, 13 and 14, you have mass adoption of smartphones. And that's about when you start seeing this really radical divergence. And it's not just an American phenomenon. This is what you point out in graph 355. This is, I believe we showed this graph when Charlie was around with us and he marveled at this as well. So South Korea, us, Germany, uk, you get this massive divergence between men and women. Now this graph sort of makes it look like men are getting more right wing, but actually the data shows that men are sort of staying stable, women are becoming more radicalized. But you describe the forcing function as that the Internet is a giant algorithmic consensus builder. What do you mean by that and why does that affect women more than men?

[Vittorio]

Well, because I. So it's, it's common to blame social media and people would design social media, Facebook or whatever. But I don't think that social media wants these to happen, or at least the owners of social media want this to happen, is that the, the platform have to be optimized for engagement and time spent on the platform. So if you want to create revenue as a business, you need to optimize the time that people spend using your business. And in case of social media, they need to spend time on it. And men and women react differently to different news. And women are like, this is known that we have different personalities. Women are more empathetic, women are more agreeable, women have a higher neuroticism. So a news and an event that makes Them feel more empathetic and, and present some kind of suffering is resonates more with women than, than with men. And still going back to the fact that women are physically weaker than, than men, women are easier to complain than men. Like we grew up and like it's, it's always been known that if a man was complaining he had to grow a pair and just men up, women are allowed to, to complain and they, they do complain more on social media. So social media wants to keep the audience, keep their, their client and the users. And so like I think it's just inevitable that if the technology is not aligned with the, the, the substrate of, of humans, which is biology, this, this happens.

[Tyler]

But that's I think the natural follow up. Vittorio so if this is driven by smartphones, which are not going away, and if it's driven by social media, which is not going away, is is there a solution to this or are we essentially, are we kind of screwed? Are we basically going to be dominated by whatever ideological contagion sweeps through with the algorithm and takes a majority of women along with it and they're half the voter base?

[Vittorio]

I don't know if I should black pill or white pill. But I think that like we saw and there is another graph in, in the article that shows that married women don't respond in this way and women with children tend to be more conservative and less radical. So one solution would be to bring back families and to have more kids because the biggest problem is that again, women are more empathetic. And so once you show them the suffering that is happening at 10,000 miles away, they will feel as if it's happening to them or close to them. But once they're married and they have good men in their life, then they tend to follow and once they have kids, then they tend to focus more on the kids. And that's just again, it's natural, it's evolutionary for them. So by, I don't know, pushing more for marriage and bringing back the marriage institution, which is not just a legal document that you can sign and just null the next day and making like, I don't know, I'm Christian. And so for me, marriage is sacred and is an oath that you make in front of God, so you cannot go back to your word. And I also do think that that's the reason why it was set up in that way because you should not be allowed to go back from your promise. But by making it so no fault divorce and so easy to rescind, then people are like, if it's just a piece of paper. What's the point of doing that? And so I do believe that by bringing back and trying to re. Establish the institution of marriage and pushing for more kids, which again, this is the black pill, because the next problem is that people are not having kids. But I do think that in terms of the radicalization, there is a solution. Now the solution has its own problem.

[Blake]

Yeah. So, Vittorio, I love this part. So listen, our audience, we have a lot of Christian conservatives that may not even ascribe to evolution. Right. So I'm not even getting into that, but the way you word it, I just wanted to preface that you could just believe that God made men and women different and for different functions and forms. And this, your point still works. You said men face different pressures. Hunting parties, gone for days, exploration, combat. You had to tolerate being alone, disliked outside the group for extended periods. Men who could handle temporary exclusion without falling apart had more options, more risk taking, more independence, more ability to leave bad situations. And you said, but women evolved in environments where social exclusion carried enormous survival costs. You can't hunt pregnant, you can't fight nursing. Survival required the tribe's acceptance. And so what you're doing is you're sort of showing that there's just form and function between male and female are different. And Blake, I love this, and I instantly thought of you when I was reading this because you were the one that kind of, I think, solidified this, even with Charlie, that women's part of women's social roles are norm enforcers, consensus builders. This is sort of the way that they're hardwired. And then when you combine that natural form and function with an algorithm that pushes them and builds consensus further and further and deeper and deeper. This is where you start seeing the two sexes diverge and depart and this chasm is formed. And I just think it's. I think it's a really powerful explanation. And then you pair that with Helen Andrews and the radical feminization of the workplace and other things, you start seeing why these larger cultural trends are taking root. If you agree, Blake.

[Tyler]

But it's very interesting because I just. It's kind of funny. It's like, how do we fix this? Well, we just have to fix marriage.

[Blake]

Yeah. No fault divorce.

[Tyler]

Yeah, Just get rid of no fault divorce. It's very tough and not the least because the people we kind of need to save with this, I think are the most likely to fight against that.

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[Charlie Kirk]

Young men are the most conservative they have been in over 50 years. 50 years. Think about that. Now. A reporter asked me, they said, charlie, can you try to explain this phenomenon? I said, yeah, it's very simple. Young men want to be part of a political movement that doesn't hate them. In fact, let me go a step further that thinks they're essential to a future of a country, that we need strong men and strong women, that we're sick and tired of hearing about toxic masculinity when we are drowning in toxic femininity.

[Tyler]

And he kept on that theme because we have another clip here and this is one of the last hits he ever did on fox. Let's play 353.

[Vittorio]

What is going on with women and not wanting to prioritize family?

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, this is a pattern that I've seen time and time on these college campuses where young men are ordering their life correctly. They want to, first and foremost have children, get married and then have a nice job or to be able to travel. If you look deeper into this data, it's completely consistent with other data we've seen the Last couple of years, young women, they don't value having children. And this is one of the reasons why we are seeing a fertility collapse in the West. If you play out the liberal worldview, the Kamala Harris worldview, to its furthest possible logical point, you have a country with literally no future. When you play out the logical endpoint of President Trump's agenda of where young men voted for him, you have one of lots of children increasing communities, and you also have a need then for mass immigration.

[Tyler]

So, Vittorio, one thought I've had, maybe this could bail us out is we are seeing this fertility collapse. We are seeing far fewer people get married, far fewer people having children. Could this basically be a transitional phase where for all of human history, basically everyone had kids because that was what you did, Natural biological impulse. And now we're just going to go through this one generation where basically all the people uninterested in having kids poof out of the gene pool. And the people who don't value marriage poof out of the gene pool. And we'll just have a new society of the people who actually select for those things. And could we fix it that way? Are we going to see this huge, I guess, political and social divergence caused by who actually shows up for the future?

[Vittorio]

I mean, this, you see it already happening. I mean, conservative families have more children than liberal families. I spoke time ago about this and I do think that there is a, there is a problem here because the institutions that then educate and raise your kids, schools and media and TVs, are captured instead by the other ideology. And that's why they care so much about it, because by not being able to have their own kids, they need to indoctrinate someone else's kids so they can perpetrate these views. So to your point, I do agree that they will self select out, but only if the kids that then are being had like they're protected. So that's, that's another problem.

[Tyler]

I'm looking at the numbers here to remind myself. So if you looked at the average number of kids for a woman over 44, so they finished their child rearing window in 1982, liberal women had more kids than conservative ones on average. And even as recently as 2018 for women over 44 completed fertility, they had about the same number of kids, liberal versus conservative. For women below that threshold, it's widened to the point where it's almost a full child per woman gap between liberal and conservative women in the U.S. that's a lot.

[Blake]

That maybe doesn't sound Like a lot, but that's a huge gap. But to your point that, listen, we've said more striking things, I think before in the past, but there is this tendency with people that do not procreate to then recruit or groom. And that is a huge problem with our institutions. That's why schools choice is so fundamentally important. That's why classical school education is so important. Vittorio, you are, I would presume maybe you're a Christian, Protestant, but you're Italian. Correct. And one of the countries that has experienced in the west the most dramatic fertility collapse is Italy. Are there lessons from Italy that you could share that, that shed light on this?

[Vittorio]

Well, what Italy learned is like what you can learn from Italy is what not to do. Like, it's. I don't know. Again, it's a worldwide problem, the fertility crisis. And there are several probably reasons that can be both political, biological, cultural. But I think that at the very bottom is just an extremely individualistic culture. And everyone just think about themselves and for themselves, they want to have money for their own, they want to be successful on their own, and no one cares anymore about what will happen to them. There is not anymore some kind of overarching principle and guiding reality that pushes them to have a lineage in the future. So I think it's still a collapse of meaning.

[Tyler]

I think, yeah, ultimately it's a value fight. And that's tough because values are tough to change. I had a friend who was just in Israel and he was saying it was so jarring to see it's not just that there's kids everywhere compared to the US or anywhere else, but that it so aggressively comes up when you talk to someone, they're rapidly going to brag, oh, yeah, I have four kids already. I have five kids. It's such a point of pride. It's so baked into everything. And that's what drives it.

[Blake]

You're right. Israel is this lone standout in the world right now because people think about sub Saharan Africa as this like massively fertile area. And historically they would be correct. But they are seeing dramatic drops in fertility in sub Saharan Africa. Even this one standout is very fascinating. That's Israel. And because Israel is a value based country, right, where people are there often because of their religion, because of their ethnicity. And what's really fascinating about Israel is the group that's losing fertility rates right now are the Muslims. Within Israel, the people that are sustaining their fertility rates are the Jews. It's a very fascinating sentence which just underscores that it's a value proposition.

[Tyler]

Exactly. Man. It's bleak, Vittorio, I have to say, because it does feel like it's. When it's a problem that's almost everywhere in the world and the ones that are defying it are so unique compared to the US or Europe. It's tough. But where we're very thankful for you for laying it out in a clear cut way. I think there is rising awareness of the nature of the problem.

[Blake]

Elon Musk and others. Charlie.

[Tyler]

Yes. And I think we are going to have to make the push for a revolution in values in the west. And it's kind of the only way I think you can turn it around.

[Blake]

Well, and this push about individualism, we are not individualists. We are more community based on. We're not collectivists, we're not individualists. We're about community. We're about shared meaning as a, as a, you know, community, as a, as a local community, as a church community. Vittorio, really fascinating stuff. Thank you so much for your contribution to this discussion. And you know, good, good job. You cut through the algorithm.

[Vittorio]

Thank you for having me. It was a pleasure.

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