The Miserable Left

Daniel Greenfield ^ | 2025-07-16 | Daniel Greenfield

[Salman]

1 in 3 Americans feel lonely every week and 1 in 5 feel lonely every day. Less than half of households are headed by married couples and the marriage rate hovers at 16.7. 63% of single people are not looking for a relationship and the majority of Gen Z didn’t date as teenagers.

Romance, relationships and sex that are disappearing, If you want to understand teenagers escaping into an upside down world of pronouns, identifying as the opposite sex, as asexual or anything except a normal healthy relationship, the collapse of those relationships is the place to start. “I choose me” is the narcissistic gateway to ‘self-marriages’ and online rabbit holes.

But it’s not just opposite sex relationships that are collapsing. Family is on the chopping block. 1 in 4 Americans are estranged from a close family member. Gen Z is the generation least likely, by far, to have a close relationship with their grandparents. Or to socialize in general. People of all ages interact with the world through social media. And social media is inherently lonely.

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Attention is the cause. The issue isn’t the issue, the issue is the revolution may be true on the macro, but in the micro, the issue isn’t the issue, the issue is attention. ...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
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[PGalt]

If the fully cognizant premeditated EVIL individuals are still alive they are not miserable enough.

[TTFlyer]

A bleak assessment. But accurate nonetheless.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[equaviator]

They’re more “woke” than they are awakened. IF they ever wake up to the fact that the future belongs to everyone then it might be a rude awakening. That’s what they get for believing the hype about how “special” they are.

[Savage Beast]

If I believed the garbage those people believe, I’d be miserable too.

[spankalib]

If I believed the garbage those people believe, I’d be miserable too.

Man, ain't THAT the truth!

[elpadre]

Whose survey does he quote and what segment of the population was questioned?

Here in NE North Carolina I see none of that.

[aquila48]

The essence of the left is they look at our imperfect world and see injustices everywhere - and so, they want to blow up the status quo - the “rules for living” that have been learned through the school of hard knocks over the centuries - and replace them with insipid, vacuous slogans painting visions of shangri-las.

These people have always existed - I truly think it is a genetic predisposition.

They are possessed by a missionary zeal and the advent of the internet and social media has given them a powerful tool to organize and raise hell.

[hinckley buzzard]

It’s not just GenZ. Half of liberals are in therapy mostly for some form of depression. Their worldview makes them sick but they can’t let go, so they just get sicker.

[Harpotoo]

In a word, Porn...
Dating is difficult.
Relationships are even more difficult.
Dating and maintaining a relationship with the opposite sex is beyond difficult.
666 is the phone in your hand and it ain’t going away.

[Jacquerie]

Try reading the article.

[Fledermaus]

I always laughed at the “don’t want to infect grandparents” Covid crap.

I said young kids don’t even call them any longer.

[strider44]

I have 3 sons. My 20 year old about to be a junior in college has a steady girlfriend. My 14 year old 8th grader has a girlfriend. My 19 year old about to be college sophomore is single as the day is long. He did have a girlfriend in high school for about a year. In general, their attitudes about women are more casual than mine were in the 80’s. My main purpose in life was pretty much hooking up with women from age 13 or so until I got married at 33. All other hobbies were secondary…