Greetings. It's Monday, November the 18th, 2024, and this is the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article, written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Many women in America who are distraught over the recent elections are joining the 4B movement.

The campaign originated a few years ago in South Korea. The four bees in the Korean language

stand for by Han, meaning no marriage, by yonai, no dating, by Chulsan, no birthing, and by sex, meaning no sex.

In other words, protesting what they perceive to be discrimination against their gender,

women are choosing to not marry, date, have children, or have sex.

One tweet promoting the movement generated 21 million views. A woman posted

on TikTok stating that she was breaking up with her Republican boyfriend and joining the campaign.

Her video has 39,000 comments at this writing. As another sign of our times, a cruise company is

offering passengers a four-year

voyage to skip forward until the next presidential election, an opportunity the Associated Press

calls and escape from the Trump presidency. Depending on your side of the partisan divide,

you might be thinking good riddance to such passengers, or you might be

wishing you could join them.

However, the divisiveness that is persisting and even growing after the election is more

dangerous than it might seem.

As I noted last week, Americans do not serve a king or an autocrat, but one another.

In our democracy, we vote for each other,

do commerce with each other, and live in community with each other. If Americans cannot get along,

America cannot get along. In what so proudly we hail the American soul and story, speech, and

song, the writers assert, quote,

the American Republic was founded as, and remains, a nation not of birth, lineage, or inherited

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