Posted on 07/06/2017 6:39:45 AM PDT by pgkdan
*As Europe's leaders have no children, they seem have no reason to worry about the future of their continent.
*"Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument". — Douglas Murray, The Times.
*"'Finding ourselves' becomes more important than building a world." — Joshua Mitchell.
There have never been so many childless politicians leading Europe as today. They are modern, open minded and multicultural and they know that "everything finishes with them". In the short term, being childless is a relief since it means no spending for families, no sacrifices and that no one complains about the future consequences. As in a research report financed by the European Union: "No kids, no problem!".
Being a mother or a father, however, means that you have a very real stake in the future of the country you lead. Europe's most important leaders leave no children behind.
Europe's most important leaders are all childless: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron. The list continues with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
As Europe's leaders have no children, they seem have no reason to worry about the future of their continent. German philosopher Rüdiger Safranski wrote:
"for the childless, thinking in terms of the generations to come loses relevance. Therefore, they behave more and more as if they were the last and see themselves as standing at the end of the chain".
"Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide", wrote Douglas Murray in The Times. "Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument". Murray, in his new book, entitled The Strange Death of Europe, called it "an existential civilisational tiredness".
Angela Merkel made the fatal decision to open the doors of Germany to one million and half migrants to stop the demographic winter of her country. It is not a coincidence that Merkel, who has no children, has been called "the compassionate mother" of migrants. Merkel evidently did not care if the massive influx of these migrants would change German society, probably forever.
Dennis Sewell recently wrote in the Catholic Herald:
"It is that idea of 'Western civilisation' that greatly complicates the demographic panic. Without it, the answer would be simple: Europe has no need to worry about finding young people to support its elderly in their declining years. There are plenty of young migrants banging at the gates, trying to climb the razor wire or setting sail on flimsy boats to reach our shores. All we need to do is let them in".
Merkel's childless status mirrors German society: 30% of German women have not had children, according to European Union statistics, with the figure rising among female university graduates to 40%. Germany's Minister of Defense, Ursula von der Leyen, said that unless the birth rate picked up, the country would have to "turn the lights out".
According to a new study published by the Institut national d'études démographiques, a quarter of European women born in the 1970s may remain childless. Europe's leaders are no different. One in nine women born in England and Wales in 1940 were childless at the age of 45, compared to one in five of those born in 1967.
French politician Emmanuel Macron has rejected French President François Hollande's assertion that, "France has a problem with Islam". He is against suspending the citizenship of jihadists, and keeps insisting, against all evidence, that Islamic State is not Islamic: "What poses a problem is not Islam, but certain behaviours that are said to be religious and then imposed on persons who practice that religion".
Macron preaches a sort of multicultural buffet. He speaks of colonialism as a "crime against humanity". He is in favor of "open borders", and for him, again against all evidence to the contrary, there is no "French culture".
According to philosopher Mathieu Bock-Coté, the 39-year-old Macron, who is married to his 64-year-old former teacher, is the symbol of a "happy globalization freed of the memory of the French lost glory". It is not a coincidence that "Manif Pour Tous," a movement that fought the legalization gay marriage in France, urged voting against Macron as the "anti-family candidate". Macron's slogan, "En Marche!" ("Forward!"), embodies the globalized élites who reduce politics to an exercise, a performance.
That is why Turkish leader Erdogan urged Muslims to have "five children" and Islamic imams are urging the faithful to "breed children": to conquer Europe. Islamic supremacists are busily building a clash of civilizations in Europe's midst, and they depict their Western host countries collapsing: without population, without values, and abandoning their own culture.
If you look at Merkel, Rutte, Macron and others, are these Islamic supremacists so wrong? Our European leaders are sleepwalking us to disaster. Why should they care, if at the end of their lifespans Europe will not be Europe? As Joshua Mitchell explained in an essay, "'finding ourselves' becomes more important than building a world. The long chain of generations has already done that for us. Now let us play".
Small wonder western Europe is such a mess!
This article is a couple of months old but I think it’s instructive to understand the motives of Europe’s leaders as they prepare to meet with our President. Father and grandfather!
No children doesn’t have to be a recipe for disaster.
The key is to keep the bad guys out, like Japan does.
My Mother warned over 40 years ago that Europe was contracepting and aborting itself into extinction and that pro-life Muslims would take over.
(Note: the terror component wasn’t clear then)
The good news is that they are America’s canary in the coal mine. I honestly think that a strong factor in Trump being elected is the obvious challenges European culture is having with the influx of middle eastern “refugees”.
If we were talking about one leader maybe not but nearly the entire governing elite of Western Europe is childless. I believe that is why we're seeing so many suicidal policies being carried out by them. They're not leaving a progeny to clean up after them. Their biological, historical line ends with them.
Adds a whole new dimension to examining the decline of Europe.
Obviously the so-called ‘feminist movement’ and abortion plays a large part in this.
Failing to follow God’s design for the man and the woman and the family results in the demise of a culture - who’da thought?
GREAT point!!! Having children makes one think differently!!
Great observations...they traded God for themselves and the socialism safety nets...they are taking a long time to realize their leaders have no God, too, and, are not on their side.
Oh. Right. The childless people of Europe voted them into office.
No children doesn’t have to be a recipe for disaster.
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Japan is an economic disaster and has been for 25 years,, demographically the elderly will swamp all available resources very soon. We are not too far behind them.
*As Europe’s leaders have no children, they seem have no reason to worry about the future of their continent.*
It’s traditionally been an informal near-requirement for politicians to be married [unless spouse passes], and a big plus to have children. All the more reason to keep it that way!
The reason Japan has had no Muslim terrorism is simple. They keep the Muslims out.
“Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.” (Daniel 11:37 King James Version)
The desire of women may be taken several ways.
Could be the desire OF WOMEN ... meaning not valuing that which women have historically valued (children and families).
Could be THE DESIRE of women ... a homosexual or asexual.
And actually it could be both as well.
On the whole it looks like the anticipated Muslim messiah would well fit the bill for the actual Antichrist. His allies in the West could easily be the idiotic, servile, apparently often childless and perverted /pervert nitwits (who also support the murder of the most innocent and helpless) who also are even now importing Islam as fast as they can (both in Europe and America)
So, the alliance for commercial progress is not with the EU, but with the GCC. The decline of the EU will be balanced by growth in the Pacific rim.
This absolutely influences the decisions of these leaders.
As they are childless, they sadly have no desire to preserve their country, their heritage and history, traditions and holidays for future generations of French, British, etc.
Those countries, with those type of leaders who are busy importing high-fertility Muslims, are destined to become caliphates.
The native born do not deserve these monsters - yet they keep voting them in...
Après nous, le déluge.
Heck they’re not even waiting for the “apres” part.
No they're not...we could change 'nous' to 'parce-que'.
This happen because Europe and now England have abandon their Christian faith and embraced secularism and all the sins that go with it. Notice how Islam is taking hold in countries that have seen a decline in the Christian faith . Also, Australia is having problems with muslims as well as Canada and the Philippines.
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