Senator Josh Hawley On the Masculinity Crisis Facing American Men
“If you want to change the direction of this nation, change the men in this nation.“
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley joined Charlie Kirk for Turning Point Faith’s Freedom Night in America to discuss the crisis facing young American men — a lack of masculinity, vision, virtue, and purpose.
During his conversation with Kirk, Senator Josh Hawley told attendees that “the weaker the men get, the stronger the government gets.” When men are not the leaders God intends for them to be, the government will inevitably take on a man’s societal role.
Senator Hawley pointed to the decline of the nuclear family as a primary example. The government began incentivizing single parenthood via welfare programs that provide greater government assistance to single mothers than to family units, and as a result, marriage rates in the U.S. have continuously declined, and divorce rates have remained concerningly high. Because men did not strongly stand by their families and embrace their leadership role, federal programs took on the role of provider, replacing fathers with a nameless entity.
“Where men aren’t, government is,” Hawley added.
Societal trends, media, and Hollywood have emasculated strong men in America by labeling traditional masculinity as “toxic,” and encouraging them to adopt more feminine traits. As a consequence of this, our country’s men are suffering from a generational identity crisis, from rising rates of male suicide to a growing lack of fathers in the homes.
During their conversation, Kirk noted that young women in America have a lower suicide rate than their male counterparts, are less likely to die of drug overdoses, purchase homes more frequently than males their age, and, on average, achieve higher education accomplishments than men in recent years. The degradation of masculinity has caused women to take on a more traditionally manly role, become the primary “breadwinners,” live, and even parent, on their own.
This was not God’s intended design.
“God has a call on each of our lives. He designed you the way that you are,” Senator Hawley said. “There aren’t a hundred genders, there aren’t a thousand genders, there are two genders. It’s a good thing to be a man and we need more men in America who will stand up, take responsibility, and lead.”
Join Senator Josh Hawley, as well as other influential speakers, at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, on December 16-19 in Phoenix, Arizona, where we’ll be celebrating God’s perfect design and encouraging men to be leaders in the home and in America!
