Arizona Senate Candidate Blake Masters Points to Decreasing Homeownership, Family Formation as American Decline

Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters is pointing to declining rates of homeownership, marriage and birthrates as evidence of the unraveling of the American social fabric, pledging to work to ameliorate the pervasive blocks to family formation and prosperous communities if elected. Mr. Masters made reference to the set of problems in a Tuesday interview with American Moment, a national populist think tank.

"You see family formation being delayed. Things are getting more expensive every year … People feel like something has gone deeply wrong in this country … The fabric just seems to be unraveling."

— @BGMasters in superb interview with @AmMomentOrg https://t.co/J3cFYshwyL #AZSen pic.twitter.com/NzbDTv55Ow

— Brian Anderson (@AZBrianAnderson) November 9, 2021

Republicans who emphasize family values have at times proven unwilling to offer solutions for America’s declining birthrate and social-economic dysfunction, problems abetted by an economy increasingly structured exclusively to generate profits for massive global corporations and corrupt oligarchs.

Both American birthrates and the rate of marriage in the United States hit all-time lowsduring the coronavirus epidemic, amounting to a disaster for social, economic and political stability in the country. Ever-increasing percentages of single-family homes available on the real estate market have been gobbled up by Wall Street hedge funds such as Blackrock, with home prices rising monumentally. The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the greatest transfer of wealth to the wealthiest American oligarchs in history, with Americans increasingly divided into rich and poor as the middle class disappears.