Stop. Stop right now. Don’t try to convince yourself that these people are some sort of outlier. This view of life and of motherhood is increasingly prevalent. How else do you explain the slow-motion demographic suicide occurring in the West?
What am I talking about? Rutgers University Professor Helen Fisher, of the Center for Human Evolution Studies has written for Oprah Magazine and today was on the Joy Behar show talking about women making the choice to be childless. She described having lots of children as littering. But truly that barely rises to the surface as the most offensive thing in this panel discussion from hell.
November 18, 2010 at 7:11 am
I don't see the problem here. Liberals should be encouraged to be childless. Most people vote the way their parents did, so the fewer liberal babies the fewer liberals voters. Eventually they would become such a marginalized part of the population they would be irrelevant.
Win.
November 18, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Walenty, you might be only half serious, and while I don't completely disagree with you, I do think that we need to be thinking about the bigger picture regarding the consequences of population decline. Humanity is steamrolling itself into extinction with our abortive and contraceptive mentality…
In Western Europe, governments are starting to hit the panic button and attempts have been made to pay women to keep their babies or even just get pregnant.
Economists and sociologists are predicting disastrous economic consequences with generations being completely out of balance… scary.
November 18, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Joy Behar is evil. She can't handle goodness. Did you see her animosity toward Joel Osteen? Now I am not a follower of Osteen (because I am Catholic) but watch this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ASufYjEvA
November 19, 2010 at 2:12 am
This is a man who seems to have had a very poor relationship with his mother, who probably had a very unhappy childhood, and whose attitude to children is quite clearly pathological.
We can only pray for him.
November 19, 2010 at 5:08 am
Megan,
I am being a bit flippant with presentation, but the core message is serious: the Right can benefit from the demographic decline of liberals. Even some liberals recognize this. Philip Longman and Geoffrey Miller have written articles about how current demographic trends are pointing towards a more conservative future of "dead serious super-parents". I think that the right would benefit in recognizing that population is power and encourage the base to start making the babies.
November 20, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Walenty, you seriously scare me. I understand the need to relay your point of view, but the fact that you honestly believe that people should stop reproducing because of their political believes is seriously disturbing. You really do not see an issue with this? I've been a registered independent for my entire life, and I understand that both sides have their issues. But how is it anywhere even SOMEWHAT christian to say you wish a group of people to stop reproducing because they have different political views? Ridiculous. It's people like you that will ruin this country and give Christianity in general a tainted light.
November 21, 2010 at 4:30 am
Anon,
Liberals are failing to reproduce of their own free will. I'm not advocating a law against them having babies, all I'm saying is let them continue on their natural path of dying off; we'll all be better for it.