I have pointed out the anti-natalism of the Left many times, and it isn’t especially difficult to do so.
Abortion, free love with birth control, sterilizing children, alphabet ideology, “climate anxiety,” Malthusianism, and euthanasia are all core components of the Left-wing ideology.
This story in POLITICO perfectly encapsulates the Left-wing attitude toward children: wanting more of them is extreme Right-wing Nazism or something.
THE FAR-RIGHT SCANDALOUSLY WANTS MORE BABIES BORN
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— Sunny (@sunnyright) April 28, 2024
Yes, the Left really believes that. You have all those TikTok videos of DINKs (dual income no kids) bragging about being able to sleep in and go to Costco whenever they want. The people lecturing us about how people emit too much carbon, or warning us of the coming apocalypse, or whatever nuttiness they have embraced.
The bottom line is that children are burdensome and morally suspect.
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,” Kevin Dolan, a 37-year-old father of six from Virginia, tells the crowd that has gathered to hear him speak. “Every country in the developed world and most countries in the developing world face long-term population decline at a level that makes growth impossible to maintain,” Dolan says, “which means we are sitting on the bubble of all bubbles.”
Despite this grim prognosis, the mood is optimistic. It’s early December, a few weeks before Christmas, and the hundred-odd people who have flocked to Austin for the first Natal Conference are here to come up with solutions. Though relatively small, as conferences go, 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 Elon Musk, who has nearly a dozen children, and Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán 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.
In other words, these people want to ensure that the human species and civilization survive and flourish.
They probably don’t want to eat bugs, either, which is truly evil.
Broadly speaking, the people who have paid as much as $1,000 to attend the conference are members of the New Right, a conglomeration of people in the populist wing of the conservative movement who believe we need seismic changes to the way we live now — and who often see the past as the best model for the future they’d like to build. Their ideology, such as it exists, is far from cohesive, and factions of the New Right are frequently in disagreement. But this weekend, these roughly aligned groups, from the libertarian-adjacent tech types to the Heritage Foundation staffers, along with some who likely have no connection with traditionally conservative or far-right causes at all, have found a unifying cause in natalism.
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. As Dolan later tells me in an email, 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.
This is, we are told, Far-Right extremism. An optimistic vision of the future that centers on family above all. Horrifying.
I am hardly the first person to point out that society’s fundamental political, social, and economic unit is not the individual but the family. The very root of the word “economics” is the Greek word “oikos,” which means “household.” “Ecosystem” shares the same root for obvious reasons: we live in systems, not as isolated individuals, and for any system to be self-sustaining, it must reproduce itself.
This is hardly a great insight and shouldn’t be considered unusual or profound. Instead, it is blindingly obvious to anybody who hasn’t been brainwashed out of their minds.
The Leftists have been brainwashed out of their minds. They can’t even tell you what a “woman” is. They are so solipsistic that they believe that proclaiming any absurdity makes it true, and denying that “truth” is a form of murder.
“You are erasing me!”
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.
This conference suggests there’s a simple way around the problem of majority rule: breeding a new majority — one that looks and sounds just like them.
In other words, a culture. That is literally what culture is–a group of people who share certain ideas and characteristics. We all know this, and that is why we can recognize people from other cultures.
Brits have bad teeth and eat crappy foods. Italians talk with their hands and have excellent food. Frenchmen look down on you and eat excellent food, but you probably don’t want to know what is in it. And so on.
Culture matters and the Left has as its goal the undermining of ours. This, too, is hardly a revelation. They declare this with almost every breath. They view Westerners as evil White settler colonialists who believe in reason, make people be on time, promote family, and so on.
The Smithsonian Museum of African American History had a handy little chart of what Whiteness means, and by that they mean Western culture.
These are bad things and must be eradicated.
It is unsurprising that people of this culture don’t want to be eradicated and even want to reproduce it into the next generation.
In fact, that is what any healthy society does. How do I know that this is healthy? Because it doesn’t die out, dummy. It flourishes.
In other words, POLITICO’s definition of Right-wing extremist is basically anyone NOT committed to the suicide of the West, and if that is the case, I am firmly in that camp. If you hate our culture, that is your right. Stay here and be unhappy, or look desperately for someplace better.
The on-the-ground evidence is that most people in the world recognize the value of Western culture because they are, for the most part, either trying to emulate it or migrate to a Western country. For all those Leftists who proclaim that the West is evil, almost none of them have demonstrated through their actions an actual desire to be anywhere else.
Rather, they have gotten high-paid jobs in academia and journalism, distinctively Western institutions.
The antinatalist movement is the most profoundly narcissistic, solipsistic, and destructive ideology. It married communism, paganism, and onanism into a witch’s brew of poison.
And spreading poison is the mission of the media these days.