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To: Phoenix8
His theory that the left is getting worse because genetic mutations are accumulating, also as he points out social welfare programs have been promoting unproductive people to outbreed those like us (generalizing).

There's some truth in that statement. In this country (and the UK), you are being punished for being a member of the Middle Class. So you have a lower birth rate.

By the end of the Roman Empire, the effective fertility rate (children surviving to adulthood) was probably around 1.0–1.5, well below replacement. This helps explain why Rome became increasingly reliant on outsiders (Goths, Vandals, etc.) to fill its armies and settlements.

21 posted on 09/15/2025 7:29:43 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

“demographics is destiny”


23 posted on 09/16/2025 4:09:59 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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