The populations of the Soviet Union and its satellite nations did a very effective job of bringing down their anti-freedom governments by starving said governments of new warm bodies to staff the planned growth of government-controlled industry and the military. Making lots of babies in a pyramid-scheme society simply feeds and perpetuates the pyramid scheme. In the West, the socialist governments are trying to fight back by making up the difference with uncontrolled immigration. The native populations need to fight back hard on that front TOO, not compete with it by responding to government pleas for more babies. People are limiting their reproduction because they can’t afford a decent life for children when they’re being so heavily taxed to fund the ever-growing pyramid scheme. We can resume higher rates of reproduction later, after the pyramid scheme has been starved to death, and we can bring children into societies where they can be assured of living with some reasonable semblance of freedom.
Just from memory, and thus suspect, but I recall the old Soviet Union and even Russia today have horrific rates of abortion. There seems to be something in the more socialist
the state, the more abortion. It seems to stunt something in the natural rate of reproduction. The idea of family first is very last were the state and state organs, goals, leaders are all primary.
I think Mormons, Amish, even just frugal familes, can all strike at the financial legs of FedGov. Have conservative kids and don’t make a profit. Be like the lefties, find a way to ‘non profit’ your enterprise.