HA ! SELF EXTINCTION…EXTINGUISH THESE MANIACAL CRETINS

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You will be unsurprised to learn that plummeting birthrates have a political dimension. The Financial Times ran the story yesterday, headlined, “Why progressives should care about falling birth rates.” The reason they should care wasn’t because humanity itself is at risk, or from fears of catastrophic economic collapse. No. The subheadline drolly cautioned, “Falling fertility levels are making the world more conservative.”

The Financial Times’ chart was a little confusing. The short version is it shows that, in the U.S., birthrates among self-identified progressives fell a full point from 2.8 kids per mother in the 1970’s to only 1.8 by 2024— below replacement levels. Meanwhile, for conservatives, the decline was much smaller, dropping only 0.1 to 2.7 kids per mother. The same appears true for the rest of the world, too.

In other words, conservatives are maintaining relatively stable fertility levels, while progressives’ rates have, like a cartoon coyote holding an anvil, plummeted off a cliff. Just since the 1970’s. “From the US to Europe and beyond,” the story said, “people who identify as conservative are having almost as many children as they were decades ago. The decline is overwhelmingly among those on the progressive left.”

The trendline is stark. The more progressive, the worse the birthrate. It seems so clear, in fact, that births have nearly become a proxy for anti-human political ideology.

The article’s progressive author, John Burn-Murdoch, tiresomely fretted that conservatives will eventually “win” the political war since liberals aren’t replacing themselves. Believe it or not, Burn-Murdoch sees this as a conservative conspiracy. “The greatest trick the right ever pulled,” he warned, “was convincing the left that talking about families and children is conservative-coded.”

His political analysis was as boring as it was insubstantial, and we won’t bother with it any further, except to note the fascinating development that Burn-Murdoch tentatively pushed back on the longstanding liberal claim that kids will eventually suffocate Mother Earth. “The environmentalist argument that falling birth rates are good for the planet may appear obviously true, but the reality is less clear,” he cautioned.

So, some progress.

JEFF CHILDERS