"Birthrates always plummet under socialism." - Granite Grok

“Birthrates always plummet under socialism.”

From Instapundit – and the important operative phrase is “Without a strong familial structure”

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Joel Kotkin: The Meaning Of The Baby Bust (emphasis mine)

Once an exception to demographic decline, our country may be falling into the dismal pattern that is now common in other high-income countries, notably in East Asia and Europe. Europe’s demographic crisis is one reason European Union officials, particularly in Germany, opened the floodgates to mass migration from the Middle East and other unstable areas. In many parts of Europe, more people are dying than are being born.

Now America may be joining the downward fertility spiral. Since the recession, the number of new children has plummeted, and it’s dropped the most precipitously for new mothers. The number of households with their own children in 2014 was 33 million, down from 35 million in 2005, even as the total number of households has shot up by nearly 6 million. By comparison, there are about 43 million households with dogs, according to the ASPCA’s low-end estimate.

Shifts in child bearing will profoundly affect our geography, politics and economic future. Children, after all, define our future society, and provide the primary motivation for parents and grandparents. Without a strong familial structure,

we will be facing a rather grim future, as an expanding older population grows ever more dependent on a shrinking base of young working-age people. Demographer Sami Karam notes that the 1980s Reagan boom benefited from demographics of that period, with a rising proportion of working people to retirees. With trends headed the opposite way, he suggests, no such expansion may even be possible today.

At every turn, we see the Progressives / Statists / Socialist trumpet that Government can solve all and have been and are trying still to turn us all into real life versions of the Obama campaign’s Life with Julia in which there is no aspect of life that Government doesn’t provide some benefit, advice, or protection.  You know, like the traditional family protector and provider formerly known as Husband and Father (and now is simply labeled either Dolt or Oppressor depending if you are a marketeer or feminist – or again, Socialist Progressive).  Moms, either in a traditional family or single, are touted as the head of the house, making men think “I am chopped liver – why should I saddle myself with the responsibilties (and future pain in case of divorce) when the hookup attitudes get me what I want” and simply abandon marriage and families.  And then you wonder, with skewed or missing role models, why Jane and Jamie are turning out to be like kids out of Clockwork Orange?

Look at our cities – formerly hailed as the places where the Creative Class is to be wooed, cities are beginning to become barren of children as the self-absorbed set does the “feel right for me” schtick.  Those with families are abandoning them as Government policies have made it too expensive and kid-unfriendly.  And it just gets worse.

And then Kotkin finishes with this doleful news:

To some, of course, an increasingly childless future represents something of an ideal. Many greens regard offspring as unwanted additional emitters of carbon, and historically have proposed limiting families. It also provides manna to those high-density developers who no longer will have to worry about renters seeking to establish themselves in homes best suited for raising children.

And we can see just how a BANGUP job importing refugees and immigrants have been to Europe as its “Leaders” have tried to compensate for their lack of fecundity by bringing in people who are, in general, ill schooled, ill trained, stuck in tribalism world views and carrying 7th Century Islamic mores that have them thinking “hey, new lands for Dar Al-Islam!”.  Great time for all like, f’instance, those 1,200 women sexually abused on New Years by those 2,000 Middle Eastern immigrants that see them as spoils of war (a war that the West cannot even acknowledge exists in practicality and form):

The true toll is staggering. German officials now believe that 2,000 men assaulted more than 1,200 women. Only 120 suspects — “half of them foreign nationals who had only recently arrived in Germany” — have been identified. A grand total of four have been convicted.

It is a simple fact that many migrants are coming from Muslim-dominated regions that go far, far beyond merely “disrespecting” women — indeed, they view women as part of the spoils of war, to be used and abused for the pleasure of men unless and until they are adequately defended and protected. The ISIS penchant for taking sex slaves doesn’t spring from nowhere, after all.

And given our long march to denigrate the “Protector” role of Western men (i.e., feminization and wussification thereof and creating a generation of beta males), those 2,000 Muslim men saw themselves in a sexual free fire zone.  The police didn’t and wouldn’t protect their citizens – and I have not seen a SINGLE post that talked about ordinary European males defending their women (so much for that “fish needs a bicycle” Gloria Steniem shtick, eh?).

But don’t tell that to the cultural relativists, the people who view different nationalities and faiths as little more than different flavors of ice cream – each sweet in their own way. When you import mass numbers of people from regions overrun with violent religious intolerance and violent exploitation and oppression of women, you tend to get more religious intolerance and exploitation of women. Oh, and you also get official government denial and evasion.

The facts can’t be allowed to disrupt the narrative.

And Statists are always about two things: The Plan and The Narrative.  Each must always be saved.

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