Don Feder has another one of his freakouts over (mostly white) people not having enough children in his May 13 WorldNetDaily column:
You can’t have a modern industrial society without robust population growth. Tesla Chairman Elon Musk says, “Civilization is going to crumble if people don’t have more children.” An aging population will impact on everything, including pensions, tax revenue, the workforce and defense.
President Trump understands this well. During the campaign, he promised: “We will support baby booms, and we will support baby bonuses.”
Mr. Musk says: “Instead of teaching fear of pregnancy” – that if a woman has children her life will be over – “we should teach fear of childlessness.”
Feder didn’t mention Musk’s penchant for indiscriminately impregnating women to crank out an army of children. But unlike his fellow right-wingers at Newsmax, Feder seems to understand that bribing women to have children isn’t a solution:
Throwing money at the problem has been tried repeatedly – in Hungary, Russia, Japan and Korea. The results are mixed at best.
Subsidies can’t overcome a culture that conspires against procreation.
More people are remaining single, choosing the dreamland of cyberspace over real relationships. Increasingly, those who do marry don’t want children. The percentage of adults without children who say they’ll never have them increased from 14% in 2002 to 29% in 2023.
No, Feder’s answer is to impose right-wing Christianity and Judaism on people and to hate anyone who’s not heterosexual:
Think about who’s having children: traditional Catholics, evangelicals, Hasidic Jews, Mormons and the Amish, whose fertility rate is 8 to 10.
What do they have in common? They take the Bible seriously. They believe the First Commandment to “Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth” was never repealed. Faith is the invisible hand that rocks the cradle.
What, then, should natalists do? Buy a tambourine and join a Salvation Army band?
We need to encourage a revival, with subsidies for religious schools and a more positive portrayal of people of faith in the news and entertainment media.
Something as mundane as the president posting videos of Bible reading and prayer in the White House at Easter would help, instead of his predecessor celebrating Transgender Visibility Day.
When Mr. Trump signed an executive order stating the federal government recognizes only two sexes, he was affirming Genesis.
He also supports indoctrination of children: “Instead of degenerate sex education, let’s have instruction helping students to one day assume the responsibilities of parenthood.”
Feder concluded by again reviving a old scaremongering term: “The expression Demographic Winter conjures up a scene from a Russian novel of a sled racing across a frozen landscape while being chased by howling wolves. The wolves may be metaphorical, but faith alone will keep them away from our doors.” He didn’t mention that the idea mostly centers on creating white children, making it a tad racist.