Crashing birthrate (1.7): Washington ComPost claims it’s sad — but there’s NO solution…….

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Opinion: Fertility rates keep falling. And there are no easy solutions to fix it.

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[source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/25/fertility-rates-keep-falling-there-are-no-easy-solutions-fix-it/]

Just in time for the holidays comes some rather foreboding news. Those family gatherings you’re having? In coming years, they’re likely to shrink.

New survey data from Pew Research Center show a growing number of American adults don’t expect to ever have children. And while policy changes might move the needle somewhat, there is a broader malaise afoot.

Forty-four percent of childless women and men ages 18 to 49 expect to stay that way, saying that they are “not at all” or “not too likely” to have children someday, representing a 7 percent increase from 2018.

When asked why they thought they would remain without child, 56 percent of the survey respondents said that it was because they just didn’t want them. Others cited a mix of influencing factors, the top two being medical (19 percent) and financial reasons (17 percent).

It’s a significant jump in less than five years. And while it’s no doubt pandemic-influenced, it’s also of a piece with the general downward trend in U.S. fertility, which in 2020 declined for the sixth straight year, reaching a record low. As of last year, the total fertility rate (the average number of children a woman expects to have over her lifetime) is at 1.64 children per woman, well below the so-called replacement rate of 2.1.

Our worries about the country’s waning fertility are often explained in economic terms: Fewer babies means less economic growth in the future — a crunch in funding government programs and Social Security payments going out faster than they come in. A shrinking population leads to less market dynamism and fewer taxpayers.

And the focus of our problem-solving tends to be economic, too. Financial stressors stopping families before they start? Just remove them! We could, as a country, get it together and finally fund paid family leave. And we could find a way to extend universal child care, or at least limit its costs. In fact, there’s legislation to do just that circulating the Capitol right now in the form of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan. It seems like a common sense fix — easy in theory, if not in government practice (thanks again, Sen. Joe Manchin III and the GOP).

As New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, wrote in an essay for Plough magazine titled “The Case for One More Child”: “The more you deliberately organize institutions around supporting families, the more children would seem like a complement to education and opportunity rather than a threat.”

But I’m not sure that that would be enough.

The United States is, embarrassingly, the only wealthy nation with no paid maternity leave, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ranks it at the bottom of its peer countries in terms of the amount it invests in child care. But many wealthy nations do much more than the United States to support families, and their fertility rates still remain well below the replacement rate.

That’s perhaps because of the most-cited reason for not having children — the one we tend to sigh over, shrug and ignore because the fix isn’t as clear: “We just don’t want to.”

This may sound freeing, and maybe it is. The stigma around not having children is lessening, and perhaps many people who would have begrudgingly reproduced will now simply … not. Women in particular have more opportunities to live their own lives rather than living through their offspring, and they’re taking them.
But, on the other hand, this trend suggests a narrowing lens and a darkening view. The emphasis on our own lives and pleasures as most important suggests something of a lack of interest in the human enterprise as a whole — not just taking part in it, but contributing to it.

A large segment of Americans is not particularly interested in the future. They think that their lives are decent enough as they are, but not good enough to pass on — or, alternatively, not worth interrupting for something as demanding and not immediately rewarding as a baby. Unlike paid-leave policies or child-care costs, this is not something that policy can quickly fix.

And while this mind-set of course contributes negatively to our falling fertility rates, the disaffectedness has broader ramifications and should push us to begin asking a harder question: What does it mean to be at the “end of history,” and fine with it passing?

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…….The NS answer

    1. Get rid of the jews and all their traitorous collaborators
    2. Establish American national socialism, and promote huge white families, with the young childless and too-old childless drafted into a labor service, an Arbeitsdienst, as in 1933-45, to help child-bearing and child-rearing families. (19-year-old young German urban men helped in the fields and forests, and drained swamps; the girls helped farm wives with their kids and the chores.)
    3. We must get our numbers back up and fast, and everyone can pitch in from 12 to 72 to help the young mothers and fathers who are making the babies, the future of our race and nations! 😉

 

…..Recent donations

— 25 November 2021 85 euros via PayPal from M in Texas

— 20 November 2021  300 euros (same in US dollars) from M in France

— 12 November 2021 another 300 euros (same in US dollars) from the heroic M in France, a working man, btw, not some millionaire!!!!!

St-Malo panorama at evening. St-Malo, Brittany, France

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— 10 November 2021 250 euros via PP from C in Germany

— 8 November 2021 $40 cash from S in Ontonagon, Michigan

— 6 November 2021 300 euros via PayPal from M in France

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AN OLD SYMBOL OF FRANCE IS THE WILD BOAR

— 2 November 2021 $10 in cash from S in Ontonagon, Michigan

— 31 October 2021 300 euros via PayPal from M in France

— 30 October 2021 $50 via PayPal from V in Denmark

Him in a previous life, also good at getting donations 

 

— 27 October 2021 $400 cash from fmr Marine Corps officer P in Florida, a donor and friend for twelve years

— 25 October 2021 600 euros from C in Germany

— 24 October 2021 300 euros from M in France

— 22 October 2021 $200 loan to keep the site going forgiven by P in Florida

— 20 October 2021 $200 via US Postal Service money order from K in Massachusetts plus the cost of $8.70 in priority-mail postage

— 18 October 2021 300 euros from M in France

— 10 October 2021 300 euros from M in France

— 6 October 2021 $50 cash from P in Florida

— 2 October 2021  300 euros from M in France

 

— 2 October 2021 $50 via PayPal from V in Denmark

— 1 October 2021 $200 loan from P in Florida

— 25 September 2021 300 Euros via Paypal from M in France

— 18 September 2021 300 Euros via Paypal from M in France

— 14 September 2021 $50 via Amazon gift card from T in Florida

— 11 September 2021 300 euros (same in US dollars) from M in France

— 9 September 2021 $300 via Amazon gift card from J in Nevada

— 5 September 2021 300 euros (same in US dollars) from M in France

— 31 August 2021 500 euros via PayPal from C in Germany

— 25 August 2021 300 euros via PayPal from L in the French part of Belgium, Wallonnie (whence Léon Degrelle)

— 22 August 2021 $41 dollars via PayPal from V in Odense, Denmark

— 20 August 2021 $200 in cash from local supporter

This is a new trend — locals supporting me.

 

As of yesterday, it was another slogan:

“AH was right.”

All I can say is the Afghan combat veterans here in Onto are shocked by the Afghan debacle.

— 19 August 2021 300 euros and card from M in France

— 14 August 2021 Australian $400 ( = US$ 300) from P in Australia and letter re mRNA Covid vaccines

It being a windy day, I placed paperweights on the contents. I always keep them near in case wind comes up. 

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— 11 August 2021 300 Euros from M in Belgium

–10 August 2021 $500 cash from G in Michigan

— 4 August 2021 500 Euros (same in US dollars) from L in Québec, Canada

— 28 July 2021  400 euros via PayPal from M in France

— 28 July 2021 $200 with letter from M in Texas

This Texan, who previously sent me a great holster,

…donated, as he had promised, two hundred dollars ($100 cash and $100 via USPS money order) — and he wrote me a beautiful letter.

 

— 25 July 2021 $500 in cash from S in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

— 22 July 2021 400 euros, photos and note from M in France

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— 21 July 2021 300 euros via PayPal from M in France

— 20 July 2021 400 Euros via PP from C in Germany

7 Comments

  1. Hi, John.

    I am always wondering where to make friends with people, especially in their 20s and 30s, who are National Socialists. Living in the modern culture is hell!

    • Boy, do I know this.

      I must say that many WNs of all ages, but especially the under-40s, are “messed up.” The family has collapsed, young folks grow up with no dad (or he is around but a drunk, a druggie, or a felon).

      And vaccines have put SO many younger white people somewhere on the autism spectrum.

      My own beloved Margaret, whom I love with all my heart ….

      Skin and bones back then from her Stage III cancer, now beaten

      …is not young, of course, but vaccinated, and has severe ADD, for example. It is or uit WAS very exasperating for a Marine like me until I accepted: her ADD is something I have to cope with.

      It can lead to a constantly messy house, missed appointments, and us being late far too often, even when I start getting her ready an hour in advance, such as us being half an hour late for a (delish!) Thanksgiving dinner the other day. 🙁

      And ADD is a kind of autism.

      Also, many are also Asperger’s Syndrome sufferers, and this too is a kind of autism.

      Then you have gigantic levels of narcissism.

      And the Internet has allowed people to “flame”, to troll others, and be abusive and vile, slandering and insulting people from a safe distance.

      In my father’s generation, you would get a “knuckle sandwich,” as it was called, if you insulted a man. I saw my father “go out back” with men who had “merely” sworn in my mother’s presence.

      And he would sock them to the ground, but then the fight was over. No one would kick your head in back then once you were on the ground.

      In any case, you learned to “watch your mouth.”

      Not today.

      To be brutally frank, I have had terrible, devastating, costly experiences with young white men in their twenties.

      I would put them all through the Marine Corps if it were not a total tool of the jews and Israel, AND now also Covid-vaxxing them.

      And the exact same thing is true of our white cousins in Europe. People have turned into shit, because the same sorts of jews are over there, in the government and media, turning them too into shit.

      But to directly answer your question:

      My religion will create whites who are actually Aryans — noble, caring, chivalrous, loyal, proud and strong — and not entitled, spoiled, treacherous, cowardly, self-centered, slanderous, porn-dependent jerks who often also hate women.

      Sorry, but I do not know any current WN group that I could vouch for. 🙁

      I would quote Jesus: Cast not your pearls before swine.

      A very close WN friend, who is very intelligent, attractive and charming, told me that all five women he has found online and dated in the last five years have been a “mental case.”…… And they all were quick to have sex with him….then became “psycho bitches.” 🙁

      The jew has done a real number on us. 🙁

      Our race is now crap.

      Only a new Aryan faith can save us morally, stop us from becoming wild beasts with white skin, and mobilize us to fight for our survival.

      And that means cooperating. It means respecting and loving each other.

      It means ever seeing the great potential our Folk still does have, the latent glory of our race waiting to re-emerge.

      In 1923, in Munich, a comrade asked me after an exasperating experience why I was “doing so much for these people, given the way they are.

      I replied:

      “I do not love how they are, but I love how they could be. Some day these same Germans will be happy, proud, caring and free.”

      And we did it; we created a happy society in the real world. 🙂

      https://johndenugent.com/images/Wouldnt-It-Be-Nice-WN-fantasy.mp4

  2. I often feel like I could be the last young white man standing who doesn’t fall for this degenerate culture. It’s crazy how so many are falling in line like sheep. Non-stop ridiculousness! I don’t see what’s so hard to be good and keep a strong spirit to the end!

    • Reincarnation explains that. You are perhaps an old soul who has had many lives…. perhaps one in the Confederacy

      or one in NS Germany, even…..

      …and you KNOW,

      …you FEEL,

      …you have had the searing, life-changing EXPERIENCES to tell you positively

      ….what is right and what is WRONG!

      And sometimes you feel like a stranger in this world as it is now. 😉

      This means you are about to make a major leap forward in this life.

  3. Thanks, John, you’re always full of interesting information!

    I am a Southerner. I identify more so with National Socialist culture.

    I pray to the ancestors for strength and wisdom, etc…

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