The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population >>
"The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, #biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, #civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough #babies.
“The entire global #financial system, the value of your money, and every #asset you might buy with money is defined by leverage, which means its value depends on growth...." >>
>> "...#NatalCon has attracted attendees who are almost intensely dedicated to the cause of raising the U.S. #birth rate. The broader #natalist movement has been gaining momentum lately in #conservative circles — where anxieties over falling birth rates have converged with fears of rising immigration — and counts #ElonMusk, who has nearly a dozen children, and #ViktorOrbán among its proponents. Natalism is often about more than raising birth rates, though that is certainly one..." >
>> "...of its aims; for many in the room, the ultimate goal is a total #social overhaul, a #culture in which child-rearing is paramount.
At first glance, this conference might look like something new: A case for having #kids that is rooted in a critique of the #market-driven forces that shape our lives and the shifts that have made our culture less #family-oriented....declining birth rates are primarily the fault of “default middle-class ‘life path’ offered by our educational system and ...>
>> "...#corporate employers,” which Dolan says is “in obvious competition with starting a family.” These #systems, he believes, have created a consumer-driven, #hedonistic society that requires its members to be slavishly devoted to their #office jobs, often at the expense of starting a #family. But over the course of the conference, the seemingly novel arguments for having #children fade and give way to a different set of concerns. >
>> "Throughout the day, speakers and participants hint at the other aspects of modern #life that worried them about future #generations in the #US and other parts of the #West: divorce, gender integration, “wokeness,” declining genetic “quality.”
Many of the speakers and attendees see #natalism as a way of reversing these changes. As the speakers chart their roadmaps for raising birth rates, it becomes evident that for the most dedicated of them, the mission is to build an army of...>
>> "...like-minded people, starting with their own #children, who will reject a whole host of changes wrought by liberal #democracy and who, perhaps one day, will amount to a #population large enough to effect more lasting change.
Here lies the project, spelled out in detail: The people who disagree have #bloodlines that are slowly going to die out. To speed up that process — to have this particular strain of #conservative...>
>> ...#natalist#ideology become dominant quickly in the United States — everyone in this room has to have more #kids, and fast.
Keenan, who has previously celebrated her sense that it is now acceptable to say “#white#genocide is real,” says better means #conservative. Pat Fagan, the director of the #Marriage and #Religion Institute at the #Catholic University of America, says good #children are the product of stable, two-parent #Christian households,...>>
>> ...away from the corrupting influences of #public#school and #sex ed. (#Christian couples, he adds, have “the best, most orgasmic sex,” citing no research or surveys to support this.) To protect these households, we must abolish no-fault #divorce, declares Brit Benjamin...Until relatively recently, Benjamin was married to Patri Friedman — grandson of economist Milton Friedman — the founder of the #Seasteading Institute, a Peter #Thiel-backed effort to build new #libertarian enclaves at sea.>
>> ...And to ensure that these #children grow up to be adults who understand their #proper place in both the #family and the larger #social order, we need to oust #women from the workforce and reinstitute #male-only spaces “where women are #disadvantaged as a result,” shampoo magnate and aspiring warlord Charles Haywood says, prompting cheers from the #men in the audience."
So unsurprising how conservative commentary about declining birth rates inevitably leads to #racism and #misogyny 🤷🏻♀️🙄
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