As a conservative, militant some might say, I see great positives in this report. Conservatives continue to procreate while the left, through abortion, same sex unions, and cohabitation, are culling themselves to extinction. Note: in the U.S. approximately 1.5 million abortions occur each year. Legal since 1973, the 13,500,000 aborted by liberals prior to 1982, did not get raised in a liberal household and become eligible to vote in the 2000 election. After all, you can’t get conservatives to abort a child even at gun point. Al Gore losses by the skin of his teeth. The 1994 election was the first election Roe-v-Wade victims would have been able to vote in and Republicans took over the house for the first time in 40 years. Though it is against my personal beliefs, this IS a culture war. And if the enemy is willing to commit suicide, and continue to encourage it, I will not oppose them. Nancy Pelosi was right. The funding for contraception and abortion she defended DOES save future government expenditures because those that it affects would most likely grow up to be worthless Wall Street occupier types. Those of us it does not affect, will have our children and raise them to be productive God fearing patriotic citizens. Makes me want to send a donation to Panned Parenthood.
Those segments that value children, whether or not they are economically sensible, will flourish while the rest fade away.
Your post is one of the more prescient on this thread that garnered a whole 43 comments. It should really be of interest to the slew of single issue voters of the anti-abortion persuasion, and believe me I’m as anti as most Americans, but you weave an excellent premise, if not fully factual truth.
Unfortunately, this type of thoughtful thread used to be a bit more prolific on Freerepublic. Principles matter, morality matters, and God is still in charge and in control, but man and his mortal enemy are doing their damnedest, no pun intended, to screw up the plan, and thus build up the secular religion in the process.
All of this, makes the statement “God Bless America” somewhat hypocritical under the circumstances, however, “those that be with us are more than those that be with them”, so the war between good and evil continues as long as the second coming remains in the future. What a glorious moment it will be when the Master returns.
I hope that was a macabre jest. The babies slaughtered in the womb -- including those conceived in rape -- had no dog in the hunt of their parents, at least as far as politics goes. I agree with your analysis of the 1994 election (I saw this first in a Steyn article, but the analysis predates even that column). Still ...
As far as the remainder of this century, it's going to be a difficult and tumultuous ride for our kids. Mine are in their20s now, and they'll be in their 50s at mid-century, when the full force of the demographic collapse of the West begins to be felt in full force. Do not forget that far more than America's political conservatives, Muslim women are cranking out babies at a prodigious rate, and places likeFrance will be beyond the political tipping point by mid-century. Likely Great Britain as well.
in 2010 I took our family for a two-week visit to Vienna. When my children were there, they were too young to remember anything of the place. And, so I had a wonderful leisurely time to acquaint them with all the places their mother and I loved so much in our years there. We stayed in an apartment in Sobieskiplatz, named for Jan Sobieski, a Polish king who saved Vienna from being overun by Islamic forces in 1683. If he had failed, Europe might be an Islamic Caliphate today.
As we walked to and fro through Sobieskiplatz on the way to the trams to take us on our daily excursions, we could not miss the presence of Muslim mothers, pushing their babies in strollers, with two or three or four other small children in tow. These mothers were everywhere, and their constsant abundance in Sobieskiplatz was ironic.
What the Turkish armies failed to do (because of Sobieski's military prowess) a quiet army of Muslim mothers is now doing: turning Vienna into an Islamic city. Or, at least it appears they shall succeed in this by mid-century, as they shall in other European capitals.
American political and religious conservatives are not the only ones having babies. And, they're not having babies at nearly the rate as these Islamic mothers.
Meanwhile, the econimic consequences of the demographic winter this speech points to cannot be avoided. It's going to be a rocky ride for our kids.
The godless left ( communists really) are **not** culling themselves to extinction. They don't need kids! They have the godless and socialist-funded government schools!
The left ( communist-lites) have all the kids they need in the godless, socialist-funded, government indoctrination camps! Why bother having kids when like cuckoo birds they can push conservatives out of the nest?
Fact: The Barna Institute research shows that 85% of children from highly active Christian homes will NOT be active in their faith 2 years after graduating from high school. The opposite is true for homeschoolers. 95% of homeschoolers will be active in their faith.
Fact: The Barna Institute research on the NON-Christian beliefs of those young adults who call themselves Christians is dismaying!
True a far as it goes. However, "they" are trying to hijack "our" kids via the school system.We can outbreed and outlast "them" only if we don't let them brainwash our kids into becoming clones of "them."