Posted on 07/28/2019 7:08:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
Conservatives may outlast liberals after all, if only through the age-old wonder of procreation.
Our punditry class, which is increasingly composed of cut-rate political scientists, enjoys gabbling about the urban-rural divide, the eternal electoral battle between red-blooded roturiers and blue-blooded burghers. This residential split is often used to explain the buzzword “polarization,” which is a fancy electromagnetic term for difference of opinion and lifestyle.
A new analysis in the Atlantic uncovers another way in which urbanites and provincials distinguish themselves other than property size: fecundity. In “The Future of the City Is Childless,” Derek Thompson pens a threnody for the once flourishing megalopolis. New York City actually shrank last year -- a Big Apple first in four decades not counting recession years. The number of New Yorkers leaving the city more than doubled during the same period.
Thompson writes, “There are many reasons New York might be shrinking, but most of them come down to the same unavoidable fact: Raising a family in the city is just too hard.” And by hard, he means expensive. Rising housing costs, combined with the unmentioned price of quality education and social outings, pull city living out of the grasp of middle-income families.
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“Why Liberals Are Dying Out”
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......wishful thinkin’!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Liberals are, in one way at least, much like the LGBT folks - they only increase numbers by recruitment, not by natural increase by reproduction. By embracing abortion-on-demand, they have severely limited the next generation of blood descendants, and they must go out and adopt, or at least kidnap, the replacements for themselves.
One of the reasons they are all in favor of throwing open the national borders of Western Europe and North America.
It all makes so much more sense now. < /sarcasm >
Conservative will still need to take the schools back or send their kids to conservative schools to stop the liberal indoctrination of their kids.
Free public indoctrination centers are anathema to America. It is an old mistake that should be ended. Let people pay for the education they feel they need.
For a very long time I’ve held the position that abortions should be free (paid for by the government) and easy to obtain for any woman who can show that she was a registered Democrat during the last presidential election.
Abortions for registered Republicans should be illegal.
It’s also why they long ago infiltrated the Education Establishment in order to indoctrinate our children. We MUST get the Left out of our schools!
They figured out that they were losing the population war over 50 years ago, which is why they passed the 1965 immigration act, the genesis of all of today’s problems.
The Progressives want to save the planet. The Progressives simply need a leader to guide them on the path of righteousness to save the Earth from Man-Made Climate Change. A Leader like Jim Jones.
Taylor Lewis must be out of his mind because “they” are outbreeding “us”. By a long shot.
I think that a significant factor in liberal vs. conservative lies in brain anatomy, that is, in heritable personality traits. Liberals, by embracing abortion on demand, reinforced by philosophies that hold that having children is bad, are eliminating those traits from the gene pool.
There is also an effect of cramming too many people into a small area, which causes a lot of societal pathology, including a decrease of population. This has nothing to do with resource availability. This effect was studied by John B. Calhoun, starting in the 1940s, and the results strongly suggest that there are grim consequences of allowing mega cities to develop. You can find videos about it on YouTube, and here is the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink. If you have ever wondered why cities are infested with liberal kooks, the mouse utopia experiments have an answer.
The key to growing conservatism: encourage people to live in small towns, not cities.
Free, free, free. Another sucker crosses the border every minute.
There are two key issues here. The first is the anything-goes sexual carnival, which powerfully inhibits stable relationships leading to marriage. Most will eventually marry, but they will do so much later, which translates into older parents and many fewer children. The second is the collapse of urban public education, which puts a high premium on costly private schooling. Vouchering the schools would make a significant difference — as would any serious reform that restored academic integrity and a commitment to excellence in the public school system.
That plus the daily invasion at the border. Ted Kennedy can be heard laughing from hell.
Yes, wishful thinking. Liberals may not be breeding, but they have little trouble recruiting the children of conservatives.
‘encourage people to live in small towns, not cities.’
the only reason there are small towns at all is that big cities exist...with the cities hemorrhaging people, the ‘small’ towns are becoming overcrowded, overdeveloped eyesores, like my once beautiful burg...
This is why they want to steal our children and import millions of communist barbarians who have ore children than they can properly raise.
Bull hockey! Just more wishful thinking. The only way liberalism will die is through violent means. We are long past the point of peacefully trying to find a solution in this country, and waiting for liberalism to just die on the vine is moronic.
That’s a better plan than having to shoot them later
Apparently there an 80% chance the a child adopts the same politics as his parents. So in a battle of attrition, our side has the advantage.
It also would confuse the other side in the abortion battle
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