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To: Ohioan
Incidentally, birthrate predictions, as most demographic predictions of future trends, almost never prove accurate. Reality can turn on a dime as it were.

Thank you for your comforting words. I too would like to see these trends reverse themselves, but it unfortunately is very unlikely. The number of white women of child bearing age in this country has already declined greatly from 1980. The current attitudes and belief systems that this group of younger women are embracing make it very unlikely that their fertility rate will be increasing any time soon.

And it is not just the women; young men in our society can get all the porn and all the sex that they desire without marrying and starting a family. Young white men do not want the responsibility and sacrifice required. Many would prefer to just live in their parent's home for years after they graduate from school. Few even know how to work on their own car these days. And foreign immigrants dominate most of the trades these days.

We have numerous veterans and numerous current members of the military in our immediate family. We are very proud of those who are currently serving. Less than 25% of the young people in this country can now even qualify to join any branch of our military. Speculation by old fat armchair warriors who own a few or even an arsenal of firearms about who would win the next “civil war” may be fun, but is ultimately completely meaningless.

Most of us here are “baby boomers” and it is our generation which could have reversed the current trend. But we got lost in a morass of self-serving nonsense. The current issues that we face can be deservedly blamed on us. We have been given a temporary reprieve delivered to us by President Donald Trump. But look at the fight he has to put up with for every incremental victory. Hopefully some of the changes that President Trump makes will alter our future course and instead of angering in we will have a smoother landing, but the current trends still do not bode well for the country. It is mostly a result of all of the unintended consequences of leftist ideology and the permanent damage they have done.

85 posted on 07/26/2018 10:45:07 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15
On the subject of "unintended consequences," see Social Reform: Confusion & "Unintended Consequences".

Of course to those of us who understand cause & effect, the consequences are totally predictable.

92 posted on 07/26/2018 11:10:34 AM PDT by Ohioan
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