Don’t Blame ‘Capitalism’ For Dropping Birth Rates, AOC, Blame Yourself And Your Malthusian Allies

[Kamaji]

Don’t Blame ‘Capitalism’ For Dropping Birth Rates, AOC, Blame Yourself And Your Malthusian Allies

Underpopulation wasn’t caused by ‘capitalism.’ It was caused by the left’s insidious, century-long campaign to usher in a culture of death.

BY: EVITA DUFFY
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez informed her social media followers that many Americans can no longer afford children because of the “burdens of capitalism.”

“There are quite a few countries that are really struggling because young people, under the burdens of capitalism … we’re not having kids. Or we’re not having kids at the same rate! And we actually need immigrant populations to help balance things out,” she said.

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While AOC is correct that the West is experiencing a profound underpopulation crisis, she’s wrong about the reason. It is the left’s insidious, century-long campaign to usher in a culture of death that is at the core of the underpopulation problem.

The Demonization of Big Families
More than a hundred years ago, Margaret Sanger, who is the founder of Planned Parenthood (America’s largest abortion provider), launched the birth control movement because she believed that the world was suffering from an overpopulation crisis. “The creators of over-population are the women, who, while wringing their hands over each fresh horror, submit anew to their task of producing the multitudes who will bring about the next tragedy of civilization,” she claimed.

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Getting Rid of the ‘Undesirables’
Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist, classist, ableist, and racist. Her goal to rid the world of “undesirables” is being carried out through the hundreds of thousands of abortions that take place every year.

Margaret Sanger declared that “Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most.” She believed that parents with many children were incapable of investing adequate time and money to raise them properly.

This line of thinking has not gone away. During a 2011 debate in the House of Representatives over a bill that would defund the Sanger-founded Planned Parenthood of federal tax dollars, Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore suggested it would be better for unborn children to die in abortions than grow up having to live poor and eating “Ramen noodles” and “mayonnaise sandwiches.”

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/23/dont-blame-capitalism-for-dropping-birth-rates-aoc-blame-yourself-and-your-malthusian-allies/

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Blame cars, which fit only 3 children in the back seat.

[roamer_1]

Don't blame the rednecks out in Jesusland with their Suburbans stuffed full of kids...

[jmyrlefuller]

This is an incredibly personal issue for me.

The author almost gets it, but misses some huge points. Particularly with the focus on Sanger's "small families." Instead, the millennial woman, in so many cases, has chosen "no family." A same sex couple with "fur babies" (spayed or neutered as Bob Barker insisted) is more normal than ever. Just this week, David Hogg (yeah, remember him?) openly mused about how he vowed never to have kids so he could drive a Porsche and tend to his designer breed dog.

Meanwhile, those of us who want families, who come from a tradition of large families, are banished to the realm of the "incels."

It seems so hypocritical to purposely not bring another generation into existence while living a consumerist lifestyle. If humans are such an existential risk to the planet with their consumption, maybe those who hold that belief should stop consuming—and we all know there is only one way to do that intentionally.

I don't recommend that. I believe humanity is something special. I believe it's worth carrying on after I die. I believe it's a responsibility and a need to reproduce, and to short-circuit that for one's own benefit is the ultimate in selfishness.

[roamer_1]

This is an incredibly personal issue for me.

The author almost gets it, but misses some huge points. Particularly with the focus on Sanger's "small families." Instead, the millennial woman, in so many cases, has chosen "no family." A same sex couple with "fur babies" (spayed or neutered as Bob Barker insisted) is more normal than ever. Just this week, David Hogg (yeah, remember him?) openly mused about how he vowed never to have kids so he could drive a Porsche and tend to his designer breed dog.

Meanwhile, those of us who want families, who come from a tradition of large families, are banished to the realm of the "incels."

It seems so hypocritical to purposely not bring another generation into existence while living a consumerist lifestyle. If humans are such an existential risk to the planet with their consumption, maybe those who hold that belief should stop consuming—and we all know there is only one way to do that intentionally.

I don't recommend that. I believe humanity is something special. I believe it's worth carrying on after I die. I believe it's a responsibility and a need to reproduce, and to short-circuit that for one's own benefit is the ultimate in selfishness.

Fine. Let em take themselves out of the gene pool.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Don't blame the rednecks out in Jesusland with their Suburbans stuffed full of kids...

Not an F150. Only fits a family of 5 at the most.

[roamer_1]

Not an F150. Only fits a family of 5 at the most.

Well, yeah... And three dogs...