Posted on 07/27/2018 5:58:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Doin’ my part. G-d does the rest.
Between feminism and MGTOW, I think the answer is a resounding “no”, Mike.
The EASIEST way to win a war is to recruit more troops.
Promote the ones already in service and go get some more.
I've preached that for forty years.
God gave us five, but we tried for a couple of dozen.
This piece ignores the high financial and emotional risks men endure when marrying or breeding; until they don’t need to fear some other guy living in their home with their former wife and their children, it ain’t gonna happen. NJ recently took up the issue of “alimony for life” because too many ageing white women were watching their unused eggs go to waste; it is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what needs to change before most men are up for starting families again.
Part of the demographic issue is caused by economics. It costs thousands of dollars to have a baby who has zero problems. It costs thousands more to raise that child to adulthood. People are having fewer children so they can invest more in the ones they have. This is what happens to every developed economy. This is why socialist countries have an even worse demographic issue. Socialism distributes poverty and poverty means people will have fewer children, because, by whatever means, having a child is a choice.
Improve the economy so that average people feel well off and the problem of fewer children will resolve itself. Tax the heck out of them, and they will have fewer children.
Yes and one move item.
The cost of raising children.
I meant to say “No, it can’t be reversed easily”
Will the Trend Of Low Birth Rates Be Reversed?
Depends. Will the antinatalist propaganda continue from our overlords? Will feminism crawl back under the rock from whence it came? Probably not.
Not until they make it an interactive game for the systems. And even then, the 3D headsets will become an issue banging together or flying off. Nuisance. But if they can get a smaller headset, the possibilities could be endless.
rwood
You lost me at poverty means people will have fewer children.
How do you explain India? American ghettos? Central and South America?
A neo pagan decadent culture cultivates narcissism. Feminism which is at its core an antifertility cult replaces religion for many vulnerable young women. They often realize what they squandered when their time as passed.
End no-fault divorce. No-fault divorce was basically the outlawing of stable marriages and stable families. At the least, give couple the choice to enter into permanent marriages, something that the states no longer recognize.
Definitely a start; unfortunately I don’t know what the answer is. The “normalcy” of marriage has been successfully marginalized - like going to church on Sundays.
“How do you explain India? American ghettos? Central and South America?”
We are talking about different kinds of civilizations. Rural, agricultural poor people don’t use money so much as barter and hand-to-mouth subsistence. They have more children because those children will work and ensure they survival of the family. Advanced, first world, cultures, use money obtained from activities they perform. They trade that money for goods and services. If they are just getting along, they have fewer children because they have a store of value, money. The more money they store, the better off they are. (Fewer kids, more stored money.)
The game, if you will, is to maximize the outcome for your family using the rules of the culture you are in. Subsistence in a first world culture is different than in a third world culture. The poor in America are fat, because we give them “benefits.” (And they make poor decisions with those benefits because they cost nothing.) Those are the people who have excessive kids because the taxpayer pays them to have those kids. But the “middle class” sees having fewer kids and investing more in them as the way to get ahead. If you want to send your kid to college, you can’t have three or four of them. You have one and invest heavily in that one.
We need a sexual counter revolution, a return to the idea that sex is ordered to the procreation and raising of children. A major part of this would be to again recognize the differences between men and women, and the roles they play in both the family and society. We need leaders that will stop being afraid of calling out feminism as the attack against the proper feminine nature of women that it is.
MGTOW is a symptom, feminism is the cause.
Less debt. Americans, and young people, are up to their eyeballs in it.
Marriage is a liability for men, divorce is an asset for women. This dynamic is a final stab in the heart of the western world, to which there is no recovery.
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