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It isn’t political.
by twodave 7mo ago
It isn’t political.
- estearum 7mo agoFor a huge number of pronatalists it absolutely is. And/or religious, which often also boils down to being political.
- twodave 7mo agoIt isn’t exactly a red/blue issue is what I should have said. I thought given the parent I was replying to that was the implication anyway. You can make anything political, of course.
- jagged-chisel 7mo agoWhat isn't political? TFA? It certainly is. The term pronatalist? Maybe it shouldn't be, but TFA is a political commentary on the term. I'm just trying to understand how this word is being used. And all the answers thus far indicate that it does indeed encompass political beliefs.
- klaff 7mo agowhat is TFA?
- atsaloli 7mo agoThe "fine" article
- jagged-chisel 7mo ago"featured" ;-)
- Analemma_ 7mo agoWell, there's a little two-step here where pronatalists will insist “it's not political” with one side of their mouth, and then invite Jack Posobeic to be the opening night headline speaker at NatalCon with the other.
- UncleMeat 7mo agoOne of the funniest things that ever happened was coverage of the speed dating event at NatalCon that was almost entirely dudes.
- BirAdam 7mo agoIf people want their government services to continue to work without destroying the economies that support them, it absolutely is a political issue.
- twodave 7mo agoOh, and how do you propose politics is even able to have an impact? Force people to have sex with each other? It may be an ideology but I don’t think this is a red/blue topic and certainly not a legislative one imo. It is more of a geographical issue and a byproduct of industrialism that isn’t really reversible, you just hope the ride down is more of a slope and not a cliff.
- BirAdam 7mo agoIf I knew how to solve the problem, I'd have proposed it. Yet, this is certainly a political issue. As populations decline, the smaller and smaller generations will be asked to support older generations, keep government services afloat, and so on. If nothing is done, at some point, the advanced, post industrial societies will become poor agrarian societies, infrastructure will decay, and governments will collapse. Then, people will begin having large families again because they will have no choice. Farms need hands.
- UncleMeat 7mo agoBanning birth control and reversing efforts to enable women's equality in the work force are big ones. But we also see it in policies like the Trump Accounts and various proposals to pay people who have larger families. And you can see it but up against immigration policy too, where people who hate immigrants seek to replace the economic benefits of immigration with policies that promote a larger white population in the next generation.