Please read Maureen Steele’s two essays this AM on American Thinker ( and my comment) and on American Greatness. *
Now WTF does this have to do with @eggspurt ’s post “Demography”?
For, what, a decade now, , we ‘ve been countenancing, even approving the conduct of educated, affluent parents who give their consent to their minor children being mutilated and injected with hormones, both of which procedures, no matter what else their long-term effects, are probably going to destroy the child’s fertility. I remember reading journals by moms who record that the kid didn’t even WANT to continue, but the well-meaning parent dragged him to the appointments, sure that it was for his own good. It’s up to the parents’ judgment, I never read that they have to undergo counseling or “parenting” classes to commit their children to these permanent and irreversible, painful procedures.
Now, that social class of parent is breeding sparsely enough as it is, delaying reproduction and having only 1, maybe 2 kids if the woman is still fertile when she gets around to it.
Okay let’s ratchet down into the less socially advantaged classes, who are in general the ones Steele is writing about.
They are more likely to end up in the “court” system she’s describing. Yeah, yeah, child abuse and neglect go on (as above). CPS always wins, and if the parents want even to “visit” their kids, after some judge or master has found that their living situation is an any way “dangerous” ( like the lives of their parents). Those people, who can least afford it, are goin* to have to pay and pay: for parenting classes, for the “supervised visitation” facility. As Steele says, it is a system designed to destroy, not promote, families.
(Now, the CPS system CAN be weaponized very effectively in acrimonious divorce cases between members of the affluent classes, too. But I think in general such parties can often negotiate their way out of the coils of “family court”. )
This topic belongs under “demography” in my opinion because this system is hardly conducive to increasing the birth rate.
Selah.
PS. The articles are “Constitutional Rights mean Nothing in Family Court” ( Am thinker) and “The State Sanctioned Kidnapping Industry” (Am Greatness)
What you wrote rings a bell with me, Hyp. There was a time when guys who did not know each other well would get together for dinner after some business meeting and talk about sports, occasionally about movies. More recently, a group of guys like that will spend the dinner trying to top each others’ stories about what bitches their ex-wives are, how unfair the courts are, and how their ex-wives’ lawyers have weaponized their kids against them. Younger guys listen, take note, and try not to reproduce.
But I am hopeful that the long-term result of extreme “feminism” will be positive for the human race. Back in the day, boy met girl and babies inevitably bounced out. My guess is that a lot of people who really did not want to become parents found themselves stuck with children. Now, only people who want to have kids are having them. The women (and men) who don’t put priority on having families are exiting the gene pool – and that is a Very Good Thing!
How many generations will it take before we reach the happy state where the human race consists only of parents and those who want to become parents? Probably quite a few.
@ Gavin:
At the level these articles are about, it is in my experience most often moms—single moms— who are at risk of the “state sponsored kidnapping” Steele is discussing.
Your response sounds like no more than the voice of sweet reason: only “fit” parents who rEALLY want children should have them.
Welp: we’re talking about demography here. And what you’re saying is really a form of pre-birth eugenics. It ain’t the way we reverse the fall of the birth rate. For that, you gotta just fosterb5hecattitude that it is a good and desirable thing to get your own genes into the future. Not everyone who sees the allure of that is World’s #1 Dad or Mom. But it’s still laudable in demographic terms.
Plus those eminently “fit” parents, mature well-educated, wealthy— um, aren’t they the ones mutilating and poisoning their kids in the holy name of transgenderism?
Finally, a bit off topic, on Am Thinker many of the comments veered to the “men get shafted” stance you’re ,um , espousing. That has nothing to do with my topic. In the first place, although I think we had a lengthy thread about this before, in connection with abortion: men don’t seem to really care,if they really did, the laws would be different. BUT: What I’m talking about here, though, and what Stele’s articles are about, is the anti-family ( not anti-dad) , anti-due process, bent of the Child Protective Services System.
Remember that CPS is a government invention, created by a Congress full of lawyers and a bureaucracy filled with … bureaucrats. Of course it is going to accomplish the opposite of what it was claimed to do (i.e. protect children). What else would anyone expect?
The worst part is that, being a government creature and embedded in the legal system, there is almost no way to change CPS. You may be aware of my assessment that “representative democracy” has failed. Thank goodness the Coming Collapse is inevitable.
Yes, but not quite in the sense you envision. The West is in the midst of a selection event, as in Darwinian selection. All the blue-haired, trans weirdos and extreme feminists are dropping out of the gene pool. South Korea’s 4B movement is spreading to the US. It’s just as well if the kooks don’t breed.
Fertility is positively correlated with religiosity and conservatism. Since these traits, as most personality traits, are somewhat heritable, this bodes well for the future. Countries like Japan will be passing through this demographic change first (inverted population pyramid, declining population). The West can watch and learn.
CPS functions are at the state level. Each state has its own CPS or equivalent; Congress had little to do with it.* As such, these state agencies are not all alike. This also means they are probably more responsive to local culture and ideology. In short, the kooks in blue states don’t make the laws for normal people in red states.
Since these agencies are not at the federal level, there may be more hope of changing them.
*There are some federal laws relating to children but the principal responsibility is with the states. Federalism!
Get used to murders of authorities in both the public and private sectors to stop their destruction of humanity. There is, I regret, no other way out. They’re junkies. They can’t help themselves and they can’t be helped because junkies in power will prevent any attempts to help them kick.
Read this conversation with Grok 3 regarding Richard A. Werner’s monetary theory compared to Militia.Money’s 1992 progenitor:
One has to understand that private sector parasites instinctively understand that taxing economic activity to fund the protection of their capture of the positive network externalities of civilization in so-called “property rights” is, for them, existential. They die if that con game is so much as detected by the body politic upon whom they feed and thereby crash TFR.
The “Federalists” are even worse in that they excuse the centralization of monetary power in the Federal government on the grounds that it is necessary for military preparedness. This is the fatal mistake Washington made – his farewell address notwithstanding – when he dealt with Shays’s Rebellion in the way that he did rather than Militia.Money. That monetary power is a kind of “property right” permitting the centralization of ALL POWERS in the Federal government. Such permission is guaranteed to be captured by anti-humanity parasites.
When I was young and naive, I could not understand why revolutions inevitably killed the leaders who were overthrown. I thought it just wasn’t necessary. Now, lets say that exposure to the animus and tactics of woke and sexual political types – affords a modicum of understanding; they never stop at mere democratic defeat. Note first how Romania’s entrenched powers voided an election on the “Russian Interference™️ meme and just today, arrested the winning candidate! This shows us what the demoncrats had planned for Trump, but miraculously (literally) failed. I don’t see any ordinary means of derailing their lust for power. Have you noticed how many of them - just in the past few weeks - are explicitly calling for violence and murder of ‘infidels’? Do you suppose they will be held legally accountable for clear incitement to violence?? For those infidels like me, even mere silence can be defined as ‘violence’. Of course, there’s no double standard here under the ‘rule of law’.
I don’t think you understood the meaning of the word federalism as I used it. It was meant in the following sense:
The federal principle or system of political organization (later often viewed in contrast to centralism)
[Oxford English Dictionary]
The Federalist Party of the 18th century used the word differently, whereas you will find the contemporary usage is more in line with the one cited above. I would have thought this was evident from the context, viz. “…the principal responsibility is with the states.” The Federalist Society also embraces this use of the term inasmuch as they contrast their views with “… orthodox liberal ideology which advocates a centralized and uniform society.”
Thus, the meaning is quite the opposite of what you assumed. Accordingly, many will find your usage confusing.
Point taken: It is a perennial problem with the usage of the term arising from the practice of federalist intent.
My focus on the monetary system addresses its practice. There were two options open to Washington, Hamilton, et al, either of which would have been superior in practice toward realizing the intent of federalism:
which, in effect, treats census-allocated money backed by land value as a market process for disputes over territory between States…
…or, to more directly address the problem faced by Washington in quashing rebellions by veterans deprived of their homesteads because he’d been unable to adequately compensate them…
militia.money
Although militia money as I’ve recently proposed it would have had practical implementation difficulties back then since it relies on a comprehensive escrow bidding system at the federal level to assess the total economy’s capacity to soundly back fiat money.
