The Crsis Facing America's Young Men . . .

A very special message from Catholic Vote: Something deeper than politics is breaking America. From within.   For most of our history, we knew what a good life looked like. A young man found work, built skills, fell in love, married, raised children, took responsibility. It wasn’t easy — but it was possible. And it gave him purpose.   That vision has been quietly dismantled. As writer Derek Thompson notes, the pro-social life script — date, marry, buy a home, have kids — has become steadily harder and more expensive. Meanwhile, the anti-social life script — posting, porn, parlays — has become easier, cheaper, frictionless.   The result is a generation of young men adrift, discouraged from being masculine and virtuous. They’re betting on sports instead of themselves, chasing dopamine instead of devotion.

It’s not that they’re lonely. They’re choosing isolation. Why? Thompson’s conclusion is “economics and technology have made aloneness feel easy and togetherness feel anxious.” He calls them “monks in the casino.”   The state of young men is killing the soul of the nation.   No society can thrive when its men retreat from reality. When fathers disappear, children suffer. When husbands vanish, women carry the weight alone. When courage is replaced by comfort, freedom rots from within.   If we really mean it when we say, “Make America great again,” then we must first make family life possible again — and manhood honorable again.   Manliness is not aggression. It’s the courage to sacrifice, the will to protect, the strength to love. It’s the humility to serve and the conviction to lead. It is what built this country, and what our elites are now trying to erase.   The entertainment industry sells addiction and calls it pleasure. Big Tech profits from distraction and calls it connection. Bureaucrats and academics sneer at responsibility and call it liberation. But what they’re really selling is surrender — a future without fathers, faith, or meaning.   We refuse to accept that future.   At CatholicVote, we’re calling on young men and women to reject digital anesthesia, to risk love, to rebuild family, to put their gifts in service of something eternal. We’re inviting them back to reality — to God’s plan, not Silicon Valley’s.   If we want to rebuild America, we must rebuild our men.   Because a country that forgets what a man is, forgets how to be free.   Go forward bravely,

Kelsey Reinhardt President, CatholicVote