There is a marriage gap in US politics. Married women
are more likely to vote Republican and single women are more likely to vote
Democrat.

Eleanor Clift, a Democrat supporter, draws attention
to this fact in an article in The Daily Beast, but ironically in a manner which
shows life has gone dramatically backwards for many women in America today in a way that doesn’t suit many Democrat-supporting single women.

As we know, Ohio is the considered the key to the
presidential election. No Republican has ever won without it. Dayton is
considered the quintessential Ohio town.

Clift describes in her column how the typical woman
voter in Ohio has changed between 1970 and today.

In 1970, a
typical Dayton, Ohio voter was a 47 year old housewife, Catholic, middle-income,
and married to a machinist. She always voted Democrat,
but rising crime and the social radicalism of the Democratic party had made her
switch her vote.

Clift adds: “her
counterpart today is more likely a single mother working at a low-wage job,
reliant on government help to survive and maybe trying to get some education.”

If this is what has happen to many women in Ohio in the last 40 years, then life for many Ohio women has gone backward, not forward in that time.
Trying to raise a child on your own on a low-income job and relying on the Government
to supplement that meager income isn’t progress by any definition of the term.

Decent, blue
collar jobs have fled Ohio for a variety of reasons but it is the social
radicalism of the Democrats which has helped to create a situation whereby more
and more women are raising their children alone.

It was
lifestyle liberalism which, in the name of personal freedom, detached having
children from getting married. This has
proven disastrous for women and children above all.

That 47 year
old housewife back in 1970 was right to worry about where her country was going
and about who was to blame.