The Far Right's Campaign to Explode the Population
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/28/natalism-conference-austin-00150338The 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.
NatalCon’s emphasis on childbirth notwithstanding, there are very few women in the cavernous conference room of the LINE Hotel. The mostly male audience includes people of all ages, many of whom are childless themselves. Some of the women in attendance, however, have come to Austin with their children in tow — a visual representation of the desired outcome of this weekend. As if to emphasize the reason we’re all gathered here today, a baby babbles in the background while Dolan delivers his opening remarks.
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I wanted to say, you are one of my favorite DUers. 
In the US, we have always addressed our need for workers with immigration, whether it was bringing slaves from Africa here against their will, or recruiting the poor and starving from Ireland and other parts of Europe, bringing in the railroad workers from China and allowing agricultural workers from Mexico and South America to emigrate, legally or "illegally". Then we proceed to discriminate against all these groups because they don't have ancestors who came here on the Mayflower 
Well, we are NOT going to breed our way back to an America that's over 50% white. That ship has sailed and the Duggars of the world need to get the fuck over it.
The phase “Plant your seed in my womb” has softened more skin than cold cream.
one of the reasons for fewer births is our insanely expensive medical care in the US, along with unaffordable childcare and housing. 
From pregnancy complications.
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