Yep....
“But in the last fifty years, the welfare state has done everything in its power to break it up. Dividing families, encouraging divorce, supporting abortion, coercing fatherlessness, and building dependencies, the state has not idly watched in the demise of the family structure: it has been the active and primary cause of its very plight.”
Ah, but they've got plenty of muzzies, and the muzzies know how to make babies!
The Amish and old order Mennonites are having a population explosion. Look it up. My theory is that they are one of the very very few that still haven’t accepted birth control within marriage, and they haven’t exposed themselves to popular digital/electronic/ media during the last 50 + years.
Freegards
well, gee, after 30 years of force-feeding people that having children would destroy the planet and they would live miserable little lives, it’s no surprise that the ‘college educated’ would buy into that.
In America we were asked to limit our children, so we could preserve our country and resources for our grandchildren who could go to smaller schools which would enhance learning. Our footprint on the world would be less, and that was a good thing, not only for the planet, but to preserve our natural and national treasures - those same resources and schools now being eaten up by illegals, who we are supposed to accept now because ‘we need people’.
But the question isn’t asked - what’s so wrong with a smaller population country? Why is it something that now needs to be fixed? Why is a population drop such an emergency? Because it isn’t. But guilt-trip articles meant to gain sympathy for forced migration do seem to be everywhere.
The average muslin woman in Europe has 6 children.
Being childless is a most distinctive lens to look through, causing a person to either not care about families or to see families as a problem to be solved.
Once you have separated yourself from the idea that children are a blessing from God why have them if it is inconvenient in any way?
Islam is a satanic religion, the preeminent embodiment of the spirit of antichrist at this time in the world just going by the numbers claimed ... but even still Muslims are frequently more righteous than the Cultural Marxist and the civilizationally suicidal technocrats.
Or as Christ would say, if the light within you is darkness how great is that darkness?
Lennon’s Imagine posited that if only we could rid ourselves of all the old hopes and dreams we would arrive at a world free from conflict but instead all such men will find are the dust and ashes of fading humanity, their art becoming ugly and corrupt, their ambitions in-vain and even suicidal. They murder their posterity and rob those that survive of magnanimity and virtue, replacing them with the prideful but empty platitudes about being nice and tolerant.
Lewis wrote of the avante-garde of these as the Clevers and after them (since the counterparts tothe Clevers in the real world will not, it turns out, reproduce) comes only Mr Savages’ dwarves ... yet all are servants of the spirit of the age.
Indeed. I would say it will be good for tourism... fewer locals rousting about. But they are filling the void with muzzle immigrants and assimilation is not even attempted. It will be ugly.
Why precisely, is the family dead or dying in Europe and the west? ///////////////
Young people in western Europe have to pay such obscene taxes to support the welfare state, that they have little left over to start families.
Trump on the other hand…does not have this problem.
I sometimes wonder if this is truly Hitler’s legacy more than anything.
He forever made it so that Europeans standing up for their culture would be vilified.
I can remember a story I saw here about a young German couple that went to a doctor a few years after being married to complain about not having children. The doctor asked them if they were intimate. They did not know what that meant.
But people trust them to give a crap about their families. Sure, that’s gonna happen...
So: they focus on their careers first and sleep around. The well educated and those with in-demand technical skills become professionally and financially established. They develop high income lifestyles before pairing off and naturally try to sustain those lifestyles after marrying. This means deferring children until their late 20's or, more commonly, early to mid-30's and limiting children to one or, at most two. An increasing number remain childless.
Those who lack education and skills increasingly don't marry. They also accept the income and lifestyle-first mantra and conclude that they simply can't afford to marry. The women do eventually have children, but they do it on the welfare plan, which drives most of our social problems.
Employers need to seriously rethink work-life balance. Most are all too eager to take bright, well-educated, ambitious young people and work them relentlessly, with the willingness to put in insane hours being the standard pathway to promotion. Prior to the normalization of birth control and abortion, this was much less common, as young people paired off naturally and plans were rearranged as the babies came along. Now the babies don't come along naturally and the young people can be driven on the treadmill for years before they rebel (if they ever do). As an unintended consequence, it's a system that probably gives homosexuals of both persuasions an inherent advantage. I'm not sure how much hyperbole is involved in the suggestion that modern corporate management recognizes the necessity of breeders to maintain a customer base but regards breeders as liabilities as employees.
Perhaps corporations should consciously take work-life balance into consideration for hiring and promotion, especially at senior management levels. How about an informal rule against CEO's who aren't successfully married with at least three or four children? It might not be a bad idea if voters looked for the same in candidates for high political office.
AMERICA’S POPULATION
And what should America’s population be?
300 million?
1 billion?
100 billion?
100,000?
Funny how the Replacement Raters, 2.5 or 0.25, will NEVER say what the population SHOULD BE.
Actually population decline is a great thing.
Foreign replacement with immigrant hordes is a bad thing.