Liberal extinction, by the numbers
New America Foundation fellow Phillip Longman in USA Today on March 13 (synopsized from a longer piece in the March/April issue of Foreign Policy magazine) says basically this: Population equals power; therefore, conservatives/traditionalists have historically and will soon again inherit the earth. Writes Longman:
Childlessness and small families are increasingly the norm today among progressive secularists. As a consequence, an increasing share of all children born into the world are descended from a share of the population whose conservative values have led them to raise large families….
This dynamic helps explain the gradual drift of American culture toward religious fundamentalism and social conservatism.
Do you distrust the army and other institutions? Do you find soft drugs, abortion, homosexuality and euthanasia acceptable? Do you seldom, if ever, attend church? Are you an environmentalist*? These are progressive views, and you are thus part of a literal dying breed.
Juxtapose that to this massive Zogby poll** (30,117 respondents in 48 contiguous states with margin error of +/- 0.6%) conducted March 10-14, and you’ll see why the pro-abortion position is a growing loser for Democrats.
*The logo, right, is from the environmentalist website Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Its motto, “May we live long and die out,” could not more aptly demonstrate why liberalism is a dying concept.
**The Zogby poll is detailed in today’s LifeNews.com.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I guess the horrible disgusting joke is on those who are liberal have managed to kill off their future voting base through abortion.
I have thought this MANY times when blogging about abortion and interacting with liberal commentors. This is the first evidence I have to back up that gut instinct of what was happening.
What pure blather. What a stupid question: are you an environmentalist? Yes, preserving the natural environment for the physical and mental and spiritual health of present and future generations must be a stupid endeavor. You people supposedly care so much for unborn babies…how about ones tainted by toxins? Or children poisoned by the environment? Screw em after there born, right? You are truly idiots.
Yes, liberals are having fewer children, which means they can ensure that the ones they do have will be able to afford to go to college and live useful, enriched lives. If the conservative children are lucky, their mothers will be so unable to support them that the tikes have to go up for adoption and some nice gay couple can raise them up to be kind, tolerant people.
Your only hope is to restrict scientists and educators until the only available positions of power will be those taken by the rich, given to their children over the empty schoolyards of those who believed in an educated public, and carried on ad infinitum. Your Eden of Blissful Ignorance will go on until the next asteroid crash, and oh, you’ll all go to Heaven and we’ll be left to burn, right?
Are you one of the kiddies whose daddies inherited the oil-farm or the railway system or the steel mills, or will your grandkids be the ones getting knocked up at their jobs at Pizza Slut because there’s nothing better to do in their lives?