Tucker Carlson: Women Making More Money Than Men Causes Higher Substance Abuse, Incarceration
On Wednesday night, Tucker Carlson drew a connection between wage increases for women and higher incarceration rates and substance abuse among men.
As the Fox host talked about the intersection between culture and economics, he argued that rural America is starting to look like areas of urban decay since both areas are contending with male unemployment, drug epidemics and increased amounts of children being born out of wedlock. This led to Carlson accusing liberals of ignoring the plight of inner city dysfunctional families in favor of social programs to generate reliable voters.
“You think our ruling class would be deeply interested in knowing the answer, but mostly, they are not. They don’t have to be interested. It’s easier to import foreign labor to take the place of native born Americans who are slipping behind. But Republicans now represent rural voters. They ought to be interested.”
The answer, Carlson said, was to consider how male wages have declined even as male-dominated industries like manufacturing are starting to vanish. As he assessed that “women suddenly made more than men” in many areas, Carlson had this to say:
“Study after study has shown that when men make less than women, women generally don’t want to marry them. Maybe they should want to marry them, but they don’t. Over big populations, this causes a drop in marriage, a spike in out-of-wedlock births and all the familiar disasters that inevitably follow. More drug and alcohol abuse, higher incarceration rates, fewer families formed in the next generation.”
Carlson continued to say that America’s “mindless cultural leaders” are ignoring the country’s “crisis in marriage” because they still encourage people to work more than to raise families.
Watch above, via Fox News.
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