I was just reading an article on Epoch Times (See AnnaMAGA's post below) about the incoming population implosion. Pretty much all first world countries are in a serious population decline and the entire world is on the precipice of and trending towards non-replacement birth rates.
Almost all of this is due to left-wing indoctrination on many levels. Guilting women into careers over family, addiction to birth control, promoting gay life styles, gender dysphoria, abortion, addiction to materialistic things (money over family), etc.
They have their hooks into the majority of conservatives as well. Think of your conservative friends, family, and colleagues. How many of them have 3 or more children? Not many, right?
Conservatives dismiss most of the lies of the left, but they only need to fall for one to ruin their prospects of a large family. Which for us, usually comes down to making money and materialistic goods a priority over family.
We could decimate leftwing ideology in a generation, as they stop breeding and if we could convince conservatives to target 4 children.
I believe there is nothing more important right now for conservatives than these 2 things. 1 - Have at least 4 children. 2 - Be VERY active in their lives, set examples, and instill your values (if you don't, the left will).
I think people would quickly realize that there is no joy greater on this earth than having a large loving family.
Genesis 1:28. God always had a plan, we just need to listen.
In the old days, a guy could go to work 40 hours and make enough money to sustain a wife and 4, 6, or more children.
Now, both husband and wife need to work just to sustain a decent lifestyle for the two of them. This is all by design, to destroy and dismantle the nuclear family; there's no logical reason for everything today to cost five times what it did 40 years ago.
I agree with everything you said, but think there is 1 more variable we don't correctly acknowledge.
We have greatly increased our lifestyle expectations. My grandfather was a plumber. My grandmother was a stay at home mom. Didn't even have a driver's license! They had 8 children and owned their own home.
Sure times were different back then. But so were lifestyle expectations. Vacations were road trips to visit family. Lots of hand-me-down clothes. One dependable but used car. All meals cooked at home from bulk ingredients. A large garden to provide their vegetables. No frills like cable TV or multiple phone lines. Air conditioning was only used on the hottest days of summer.
Not saying people should or should have to live like that. But they were happy. And I do think part of the problem today, is we expect too much. I think current expectations would have been considered quite extravagant "back in the day".
I agree with everything you said :)
It can still be done today, but you leave the stuff at the door so to speak and make sacrifices
Please read the comment I just made to covfefe.
It's not about differences in our expectations that's causing people to be unable to raise families on single incomes.
If there are any other seniors with paid off mortgages like me, put your property in a trust and let your heirs have it. Or quit claim it to them. I've heard there is more housing in the United States than there are people. That means empty homes, air b&b's, places that could be refurbished and re-used. Better than making the youth pay for a new home & a lifetime of debt.
There's a logical reason things cost so much more for the average person now, but whenever I bring it up, people tend to get angry and call me a socialist.
The reason is that the average worker's wages have not increased to keep up with inflation. And this is because our society relies heavily on capitalist ideals. We like to reward wealthy people because we believe in the idea of work ethics.
CEOs and other upper management salaries have risen over 1,000% since the 1970s. The average of all other wages (we peons) has risen about 18%. That's not a typo. 1,000% vs 18%.
https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2020/
In the 1960s, the average business ceo's salary was about 7x that of the lower paid employees. Today it's about 850x that of the lower paid employees. That's not a typo either. 7x vs 850x.
Kind of hard to argue for salary caps in a heavily capitalist society. 🤷♀️ Please note: I am not a socialist. I think capitalism is good for our country. But it's being perverted to fund horrible people their horrible doings.
And many of those CEOs making 8+ figures each year are the degenerates involved in sex and pedophile rings. You have to have a shit ton of money to pay people off (parents, law enforcement, judges, other degenerates) to get away with the atrocities they do.
But seriously, what can we do? Even I cringe away from wanting salary caps. But I can't think of a way to limit CEOs income, so the salaries of those lower employees could be raised to levels that would more correspond to the days of Camelot.
I value good hard work as well as the next gal, but it boggles the mind what these CEOs are doing that they deserve a 1,000+% increase in salary compaired to rheir colleagues in the 60s and 70s.
But there will never be a day thet congress (democrats and Republicans AND independent) will pass a bill to put caps on salaries. Because they're getting kickbacks from those who would be capped, and the money would dry up.
Too bad, watching suckerberg get a salarycap would have made it worthwhile.