“Chris Hayes is exceptional in his perspective his willingness to tackle difficult and complex topics and with some humor. Something we all desperately need right now.
I would like to suggest a topic that is persistently overlooked. Single people in America. Not single people looking for other people. Single people living their lives without much recognition from society. We still have social expectations that you marry and have children despite the fact that we have more people than the planet can support. Most marketing ads are focused around buying for families. Many political and economic discussions only revolve around families. Yet single people face some significant challenges. Social pressure, economic pressure, the tyranny of coupling in America, the pressure of straight or gay friends to have you become a part of a straight or gay couple. The subtle but pervasive feeling that somehow there is something wrong with you if you are not part of a couple or a classic family situation.
More articles are appearing about the choice of millennials to forgo children because of what they believe may be the end of human life on the planet through climate crisis. There’s a lot of pushback on these folks but should we really consider their perspective and the rationale for these choices.
Chris please consider a few podcasts about the state of being single in the United States and explore what that means economically socially and politically. Last I looked I thought Pew listed single household as about 25 to 28% of the population”
monique dc via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/23/19