Posted on 05/03/2021 3:15:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Let me put this as William F. Buckley might have said it – as a patriotic conservative, it is your duty to call upon that booty.
Last week the census report came out and it is a lights n’ sirens red alert emergency –America’s population grew at the smallest rate since the Great Depression. Down this road to extinction just a few years ahead of us are the morally and culturally exhausted nations of Europe which have not seen their people hitting replacement rate in a generation. The problem is that Americans are not making babies, and we need to solve it. That’s where us conservatives getting it on comes in.
As conservatives, we need to make the having of children the center of our policies. This will make the country stronger, and it will make conservatism stronger as well. We’re still doing okay baby-wise, but our ghastly elite is kid-free. That’s fine – the fewer Kadens and Ashleighs the frigid woke wine women of suburbia punch out the better.
Of course, their answer is to import people from the Third World to act as their serfs, incidentally increasing their own political power at our expense. I like immigrants – I married one – but we’re not going to be America if we don’t make more Americans. And since our ruling caste thinks America is a terrible racist hellhole of racism, and recoils at the classic notion of a melting pot, an uncontrolled flood of immigrants who aren’t required to become Americans means America becomes something other than America. And we like America being American.
We do need some immigrants – ones with useful skills and a desire to be Americans – but what we conservatives must do is take up the slack. That means a dual-axis attack on the political and cultural trends leading us toward barreness. Plus, more getting it on.
We need a change in mindset as a country that holds that family is key, and that the making of babies is the highest and most important purpose of families. We need to reject the neo-pagan nonsense of the weather cultists that reproduction is a crime against Gaia. We need to be firmly in favor of large and young families. And this will draw resistance from those who would prefer to kick up their heels instead of knocking boots and getting their breed on.
There are some obvious things we need to change, like the attitude toward abortion. There would be tens of millions more Americans if we had not greenlit the abomination of mass abortion a half century ago. Many of them would be people of color, who their sick abortionists particularly prey upon. We need to restrict this practice, and we need to stop subsidizing the abortion mills. Mostly, though, as a culture, we need to stop pretending that abortion is okay, that it’s no biggie, that it’s wonderful to shout one’s abortion. Let’s stop pretending that it’s fine.
And let’s help those who find themselves pregnant and scared. We need laws to fully inform women and to give them a cooling off period. But we also need to create a child-friendly culture. Step One is to celebrate motherhood. One part of this is to recognize that this is a unique role that only women can fill. No man ever has or ever will become pregnant – let’s reject the way the liberal elite devalue women by pretending that being a woman is as simple as changing your name from “Ken” to “Kendra.”
And we need to stop the bizarre cultural messaging to women that they have no value if they are not cogs in the corporate machine. Too many women wait too long to have babies, delaying children – the most important thing they will ever do – for years to pursue their careers. According to actual science, there’s this thing called the biological clock, and it doesn’t care if you think its sexist. We need to orient our young people to marrying younger. I waited until 38 because it never occurred to me not to. I was lucky and it worked out for me, but it does not work out for society. We need to get the message out – don’t wait until everything hurts when you get up to get going on a family. My parents were 26 when they got married in the early Sixties, and they were always among the older parents at Back-to-School night in the Seventies.
We need to reduce this extended adolescence that has young people in their twenties frittering away their prime on juvenile and transitory antics. And so, we come to men. Boys, you are lagging. With their video games, dope, and easy access to computer onanism aids, far too many males refuse to become men. That’s a cultural battle, and we need to fight it in our churches, in Congress, and in the media to the extent we’re allowed to express the radical thought that maybe you shouldn’t be living on your bro’s couch at 30.
We need tax laws that charge the single and/or childless more (Augustus did this in Rome). We need bigger tax credits for kids, and school choice, and to eliminate rules that prevent employers from giving families flexibility on the job. We also need to reject anti-family garbage like “universal pre-school” – we should help families raise their own kids and not subsidize even more unionized weirdos who want to toss out Jack n’ Jill and start teaching Critical Race Theory to our four-year-olds.
Lots of factors delay marriage. A big one is the academia scam. Student loans destroy futures. Let’s stop subsidizing them and make them dischargeable in bankruptcy. Right now, we are paying for universities that are nothing more than petri dishes breeding political pathologies that infect our society. No more. End the student loan grift. Oh, and maybe seize the endowments to pay off the kids the colleges ripped off.
Now, let the whining begin…
What about the dreams of young women who yearn to spend their fertility window toiling to make hedge funders richer? Maybe we should start by being honest and leveling with them that’s a pretty lousy dream. Nobody is telling them they can’t sacrifice their future happiness on the altar of corporate profits, but – as a culture – we should be telling them that they shouldn’t.
What about the dreams of young men who want to dodge responsibility and wallow in childish mediocrity? What about them? Shape the hell up. Be a man. And yes, there are a number of unfair and obnoxious biases in the law about men regarding divorce. We can fix those, but males need to stop hiding behind such grievances in order to play with Star Wars action figures until they are 70.
What about people who can’t have children? That’s hard, and all of us know people in that situation and sympathize. How about we subsidize those heroes who adopt unwanted kids? How about we conservatives take seriously adoption over abortion by writing a check?
And finally, there is the objection that families and kids are not all sunshine and lollipops. True. There are people who have no business breeding. There are kids who are monsters, and parents too. But only a fool would argue that we should abandon something that is overwhelmingly good, something that has been the foundation of every great civilization, because sometimes it’s imperfect. Look at what our trash ruling caste proposes in its place – a freakshow of chaos, misery, and decline. Pass.
This is up to us. Our opponents don’t even think this country is worth saving, so we can’t look to them to do it. We need to do it – literally. So, get to it, conservatives. Stick on some Al Green and make it happen. America’s future depends on you getting busy.
First off: good luck finding a conservative woman. Depending on the locale, many women, esp. in the cities, are as “woke” as any of them. If they find out you’re a conservative, good luck trying to keep them around.
Men, esp. white Christian men, are being portrayed as limp-wristed buffoons by the media, and women are being “empowered” to go it alone in most of their dealings.
I’m glad I found a good, old fashioned midwestern girl, but we’re past childbearing years. I worry for the future of this country.
As a donation to the republican party this year I will support and donate to anyone running against these scumbags who did in Trump
Abolish no-fault divorce, and that might happen.
I will have gotten three out of my four girls (no boys) past high school by the end of this month. Two out of the three sway conservative. The third...well....All three going to college and working their way thru it.
Immigration is not going to stop our population decline.
In 2019 - before COVID started and during a full employment economy - the fertility rate for foreign born women living in the USA dropped to 2.02.
That is below the replacement rate, for foreign born women, which has never happened before.
Face the reality...
Kids are really expensive, they consume all your time, and more often than not, they are ungrateful or indifferent for the sacrifices made by their parents.
American couples are not going to stop having children, but they will absolutely stop having large families.
Please give to the Trump PAC, not the traitorist GOPe.
They use our donations to help the RINOs get elected. They don’t support candidates we want in office.
The purpose of his PAC to elect real Conservatives to office.
Better to be a single man than to be dragged down into an eternity in hell by a liberal woman. :-)
The schools would be the biggest hurdle to me. Who could bring a child into this world, in the US, with all the crap being taught in schools.
We need to stop the nonsense that there are no differences between men and women and that to treat them differently is unjust.
The problem is that Americans are not making babies,
Or, maybe it’s just a case of most American babies are being aborted.
Substantially increase immigration numbers of Asian single young women (10 million+) . . . put the pressure on liberal women to compete for men while changing laws to banning a single woman from adopting . . . if they want to put career over children they get the choice but also pay a price for their selfishness . . . have a special Tinder-like APP for women seeking husbands only . . .
Of course, some of this is tongue in cheek . . .
Or not!
I’d like to contribute, but males in their 20s aren’t interested in marriage. They want playmates. And I won’t have babies with playmates.
Stop LEGAL immigration. That is depressing wages and domestic child birth rates. Stop OFFSHORING of manufacturing. That is taking away opportunities to start families at a young age.
The scene late in City Slickers . . . Ed: “I’m going to go home and get Kimmy pregnant” . . . Mitch: “I’d like to help” . . .
For some reason that popped into my head. It’s actually a very pro-conservative values movie that gets ignored with it’s plot because it’s a comedy about NY’ers on vacation.
Good luck! I’m 62 so I can’t volunteer for anything at this point.
This nation survived the Lost Generation and the Beat Generation, but today’s Unserious Generation could bring about our extinction.
I don’t know whether to study Spanish or just cut to the chase and study Chinese.
Well, my wife and I did our part. 3 healthy sons. She’s a Texas girl, conservative all the way. I’m a Massachusetts conservative/libertarian. It works.
I wish we had more kids but the last pregnancy was very difficult for my wife. 3 will have to suffice. It is interesting how the number of children per generation declines.
My Grandfather - One of 13 kids
My Grandmother - One of 8
My dad - one of 5 kids
My mom - one of 5 kids
They had 3 kids (me, my brother, and sister)
From the 1920’s to the 2020’s. Quite a change.
me - 3 kids
my brother - 3 kids
my sister - 1 kid
No more forthcoming.
There are no perfect places or situations.
My son is 26 years old and is building an entrepreneurial kingdom and works 14 hours a day. If he was a 9-5 salaried worker he’d be exactly what you are looking for . . . honest, upbeat, hard-working, etc.
But economics today makes a younger family almost impossible. In retrospect the cell phone was the best AND worst thing to happen to family formation. All those conveniences but also stretching the work day beyond reason.
Here’s his main business:
https://www.instagram.com/justbakedboca/
Economics is definitely a factor. They go to college and carry debt. Many go to college and also hold a job.
I didn’t go to college, I took a menial job at 18 and used the money to buy real estate. By 19 I didn’t need a job anymore, though I didn’t quit. Now in mid-20s I’ve been debt-free all the while and you could say I’m very comfortable :)
Most people my age are struggling, stressed, poorly educated despite their diplomas, and they say they can’t take on the extra responsibilities of marriage. Some of them do mean it. Some don’t.
Look in the Bible believing churches.
There were four perfectly eligible women aged 20-30 in church with me this Sunday that I can think of. And I’m in San Francisco.
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