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An article about first Natal Conference
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Most of the first day of the conference is spent defining the problem. In a nutshell: Sperm counts are historically low. Our bodies are full of microplastics. Public schools are indoctrinating children against the good Christian values with which they were raised. Dating apps have gamified romance, tricking lonely singles into believing that a better prospect is always around the corner. Women have been convinced that they can have it all kids and a career and endless vacations and so much more only to end up unhappy, infertile and alone.
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The solution, of course, is to have more babies. Peachy Keenan, a pseudonymous writer affiliated with the conservative Claremont Institute, urges attendees to seize the means of reproduction as in, to out-breed liberals, who are already hobbling their movement by choosing to have just a couple children, or none at all. We can use their visceral hatred of big families to our advantage, Keenan says. The other side is not reproducing; the anti-natalists are sterilizing themselves.
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.
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The goal, as put by Indian Bronson, the pseudonymous co-founder of the elite matchmaking service Keeper, is more, better people. 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, a lawyer with waist-length curly red hair. (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.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/28/natalism-conference-austin-00150338
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Sounds like a rebirth of the Nazi Lebensborn program which was designed to increase the Aryan, racially valuable, population.
Just more right wing crap that everyone may have to struggle against in the future.
Sigh.
niyad
(114,146 posts)GESTATIONAL SLAVERS.
Let's go back to the 16th century.
Celerity
(43,908 posts)https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/pro-natalism/547493/
https://archive.ph/XhKFn
America needs more babies. Thats what policymakers seem to have decided, from the White House to Capitol Hill. Congress spent November considering the Child Tax Credit, a measure that reduces the federal income taxes owed by families with kids. The Senate and the House both voted to raise the credit in their recent tax bills, which will soon be reconciled. Meanwhile, two Democratic senators, Michael Bennet and Sherrod Brown, proposed their own version of an increase. And led by Ivanka Trump, the Trump administration has been softly pushing a child-care tax deduction and federal paid-maternity-leave program.
These programs have been sold as ways to support struggling middle-class families, but they also address another issue: declining birth rates. Government data suggests the U.S. has experienced drops in fertility across multiple measures in recent years. Even Hispanic Americans, who have had high fertility rates compared to other ethnic groups in recent decades, are starting to have fewer babies. Lyman Stone, an economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who blogs about fertility in his spare time, called this years downward fertility trend the great baby bust of 2017.
These are the seeds of a nascent pro-natalist movement, a revived push to organize American public policy around childbearing. While putatively pro-family or pro-child policymaking has a long history in the U.S., the latest push has a new face. Its more Gen X than Baby Boom. Its pro-working mom. And it upends typical left-right political valences: Measures like the Child Tax Credit find surprising bipartisan support in Congress. Over the last year or so, the window of possibility for pro-natalist policies has widened.
Even so, proponents of child-friendly policies, left and right, are deeply skeptical that the government will prove willing to put family at the center of its lawsor that the government can change current birth-rate trends. Ultimately, a shared cultural commitment to the importance of children is the factor that will determine Americas baby-making future. Across the developed world, birth rates are below replacement level, meaning women dont have enough children to replenish the population. Pro-natalists argue that this will have devastating consequences. By contrast, they say, having kids has lots of upsides. People want it. Society needs it. We want the economy to grow, said Stone said in an interview.
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dslyahoo
(61 posts)This is literally the plot and beginning of Idiocracy.
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