Todd's Not Afraid of Declining Liberal Birth Rates
Posted by: tony on 03/18/2006 11:57 PM
Updated by: tony on 03/25/2006 11:17 PM
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Expires: 04/19/2006 12:00 AM
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There has been a current meme going around on how liberals are not breeding in sufficient quantities to sustain their voter base. Well, hello! I wrote about this back in July of last year (well, reprinted it from my old blogger account).
Now my friendly nemesis, Todd, from Catholic Sensibility has decided to weigh in.
What else would you call it? I'm writing of the smug insistence that conservatives will inherit the earth by the simple task of outbreeding the liberals. I'm shaking in my boots.
No need to shake, Todd. It's not going to really impact things for a generation or two. But we're seeing the beginnings of it now, from the two time election of GW Bush on "family values" issues, to the resurgance of conservative priests and more conservative young people showing up at Catholic Churches.
I'm pinning my hopes on these developments:
- Conservatives will not escape adolescent rebellion and the grandchildren of the Right will elect some great-granddaughter of Hillary Clinton to the presidency.
Ahhh... This old "we'll just indoctrinate your children" canard. Like liberal children won't rebel in equal numbers.
- That nobody will dare to reintroduce laws against Carville-Matalin marital combinations.
It will become more difficult to find a "Carville" to marry than a Chinese guy has finding a wife (BTW, abortion is responsible for that one too).
- The human genome project has yet to find the gene for conservativism. It appears that being conservative is -- gasp! -- a choice. Repentance, reform, and renewal are possibilities even for them.
And another case of the lack of belief that we'll be winning more of them over to our side than we're losing. Religious conservatism makes for a much more peaceful and joyful life. People are attracted to that. It's one of our biggest selling points
- Conservative-dominated national politics is doing such a bang-up job these days. The only thing keeping the scandal-and-incompetence-ridden Republican Party afloat is the tradition of money-for-favors. No wonder they whine about Feingold and McCain so much.
Are you calling GW Bush a "conservative"? He hasn't met a spending bill he hasn't signed. But he's on the right track with the family issues and the national defense issues. That will keep the Republicans in for quite a few terms. When the "Catholic" Kerry can't get the majority of the Catholic vote, you know there's trouble.
An e-mail correspondent reminded me that Mussolini's attempt to breed large Italian fascist families had smashing results. They're sure packing the churches, eh?
I knew this couldn't last without bringing out a fascist or a Nazi.
The biggest hurdle the conservatives face is inbreeding. And from the sounds of these IDeas, I think the philosophy will sink them before the genetic stylings of European monarchy does. But it might be close.
No need for inbreeding. Conservatives come in all different races, and national origins. We have a true "big tent" where everyone's welcome, unlike the Democrat "plantation".
But the fact is, liberals are going to contracept and abort themselves out of relevance probably within my lifetime unless they do something about it. One may think hedonism as a lifestyle choice is attractive, but it has it's unintended consequences. One consequence of no or few children is that the pervasive social programs that liberals are so fond of require a steady stream of new workers to sustain them. This isn't happening (at least in the liberal states).
Todd, denial is not just a river in Egypt.
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