These are dark days for Democrats. They’re out of power, out of ideas, and out of a plan. They’re also bleeding voters from just about every demographic.

One illustration: Despite letting millions of illegals into the country and opening the door for voting without ID, Hispanic voters continue to gravitate toward the GOP. Other groups moving to the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election included black men, young voters, and women.

For the most part, the trend over many election cycles has been that women align with Democrats and men with Republicans. But one group in particular is coalescing around the Democrat Party: college-educated women, which should not surprise anyone. For years now, women have become a noticeable majority on college campuses across the nation, and colleges themselves have become indoctrination centers for leftist and Marxist (but I repeat myself) ideology.

“The number of women’s and gender studies degrees in the United States has increased by more than 300% since 1990, and in 2015, there were more than 2,000 degrees conferred,” writes Samuel J. Abrams from The American Enterprise Institute. “There are widespread movements to establish women’s centers almost everywhere, even as men are abandoning college and university life in record numbers, and those who remain are hit with messaging about behavior and status from diversity, equity, and inclusion offices along with various student life offices that regularly call them toxic, aggressive, and born misogynists.”

In their classes, young female minds are saturated with ideas that undermine the values of Western society and America, characterize marriage and childhood as forms of oppression, blame men for all the ills of society, worship the DEI religion, and celebrate abortion as the embodiment of female empowerment.

These are all the pillars that support what’s left of the Democrat Party, and women in college or those who’ve graduated hold firm to these pillars.

According to Gallup, “From 1999 to 2013, about three in 10 women aged 18 to 29 consistently identified as liberal, after which the figure rose (a bit unsteadily) to 44% by 2020. The percentage liberal receded slightly to 41% in 2022 and 40% in 2023. The resulting 11-point increase in young women’s liberal identification since 1999 has made what was already the most liberal subgroup of women even more liberal.”

In particular, marriage is one of the primary institutions of society that young college women find archaic and unappealing.

In an article for The Wall Street Journal, Rachel Wolfe writes, “The share of women ages 18 to 40 who are single — that is, neither married nor cohabitating with a partner — was 51.4% in 2023, according to an analysis of census data by the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, up from 41.8% in 2000.” Wolfe continues, “These numbers don’t specify whether women are looking for love or swearing it off, but more-nuanced surveys show that single women appear less interested in getting married now than they used to be. They also seem less keen on getting hitched than their male peers.”

Citing research by Glocalities on the divide in Gen Z, the Brookings Institution states, “Young women have become significantly more liberal and embraced ‘anti-patriarchal’ values over the last decade, while young men have stayed relatively the same. Additionally, it showed that young men have been the slowest among all groups to move towards more liberal values over the nearly 10-year period.”

But marriage isn’t the only issue dividing men and women.

Ironically, another idea that more women accept is “transgenderism,” which threatens women’s privacy and safety. Men who claim to be women can enter restrooms and locker rooms with young women, and female athletes who’ve trained hard to excel in their respective sports are now losing out to strong men who identify as women. Women, particularly those with a college education, have been trained to carry the torch of the transgender movement as a perceived step in the path of realizing the goals of feminism, and some fear what might happen if they dare speak out against it.

“But there is more than fearful conformity at work here,” Nathanael Blake of The Federalist insightfully points out. “Guilt also plays a role. To publicly acknowledge that transgender ideology is a lie is, for those who have supported it, to admit to complicity with grave evils — and to being a fool. Furthermore, there is the nagging fear that turning against the transgender revolution will also force a reckoning with the sexual revolution from which it arose.”

In recent years, the Democrat Party has embraced ideas on the political fringe, including open borders, critical race theory, transgenderism, identity politics, and anti-child and anti-marriage feminism, just to name a few. It is no coincidence that these are the same ideas young women are taught to embrace on the college campus. It’s no wonder the Democrats are losing every group of voters except women with college degrees.

It’s not just about politics, though. Men and women must have shared values and principles for a society to flourish. The abandonment of marriage and children by women is already having significant consequences on our culture, and it will only get worse if women don’t wake up to the lies. Let’s hope more women have the courage to speak the truth and help others realize the crackpot theories they learned in college actually harm women and further divide a society already tearing apart at the seams.