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2022-07-08 Home Front: Politix

Victor Davis Hanson: The Disappearing American?

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-08 03:47|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Seems the Mormons and the inner city people have no problem reproducing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-08 07:34|| 2022-07-08 07:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Religious Christians and Jews and the wealthy — those with faith in the future and a desire to participate in its formation — are having three or more children. We’re in a Darwinian bottleneck, though the selection is between meme carriers, as it were, rather than gene carriers.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-08 11:28|| 2022-07-08 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Since the discovery of 'Rosie the Riveter' the gov't has encouraged two earner families. 'Replacement people' can always be brought in to prop up big gov't.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-08 11:33|| 2022-07-08 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Hanson is an erudite whiner.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 11:42|| 2022-07-08 11:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Look at Japan. Their population peaked in 2008 and has been shrinking every year since. They are providing a real-time laboratory for the future.

Posted by Tom 2022-07-08 12:31|| 2022-07-08 12:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Murcek, not a whiner, more like a wailing Greek chorus. He has a repetitive mode - this is an example. Someone has to do it.

Check out Peter Zeihan’s latest book.

Posted by KBK 2022-07-08 13:27|| 2022-07-08 13:27|| Front Page Top

#7 The trolls like Zeihan. That's enough to keep me reading cop fiction.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 13:28|| 2022-07-08 13:28|| Front Page Top

#8 People who screech about problems but have no solutions are assholes. No matter how good their credentials.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 13:34|| 2022-07-08 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Example: I just sent DeSantis' handpicked candidate for state agriculture commissioner an email to ask if he would be more 2A friendly than the current dem Nikki Freid (he won't be.) At least I asked. And, no, I won't vote for him.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 13:40|| 2022-07-08 13:40|| Front Page Top

#10 So, you’ll vote for Michelle?

Posted by KBK 2022-07-08 14:33|| 2022-07-08 14:33|| Front Page Top

#11 No.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 14:35|| 2022-07-08 14:35|| Front Page Top

#12 And, BTW, nobody named Michelle is running for FL AG Commish. Are you ignorant or an asshole?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 14:47|| 2022-07-08 14:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Oh, let's not rule out the power of "both..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 14:50|| 2022-07-08 14:50|| Front Page Top

#14 People who screech about problems but have no solutions are assholes.

So if you don't know how to put out a house fire, don't call the Fire Department? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-08 15:39|| 2022-07-08 15:39|| Front Page Top

#15 So if you don't know how to put out a house fire, don't call the Fire Department?

Fucking straw man, dude...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 15:41|| 2022-07-08 15:41|| Front Page Top

#16 What "fire department" is Hanson calling?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 15:44|| 2022-07-08 15:44|| Front Page Top

#17 Just think. If Hanson, Zeihan, Mearshimer, Musk had all the answers, we should be well beyond Utopia by now.

Oh, we're not...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 15:57|| 2022-07-08 15:57|| Front Page Top

#18 Look. You embarrassed yourself. Nobody had to help you...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 16:02|| 2022-07-08 16:02|| Front Page Top

#19 And you are having a bad afternoon. Step outside and breath some air.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-08 16:40|| 2022-07-08 16:40|| Front Page Top

#20 Clap clap go the flip-flapping lids
Of biddies in bidness: It's SIDS,
That new Netflix thriller
On cute contract killers
Who knock off invisible kids!
[brat topples pudding onto old lefty's lap]

Posted by Glealing Hupaimp6165 2022-07-08 16:46|| 2022-07-08 16:46|| Front Page Top

#21 My afternoon's fine. My arguments are sound. You are not a licensed therapist so let it go.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 16:47|| 2022-07-08 16:47|| Front Page Top

#22 Stuff I read, in certain books
Would make the world a perfect place
Except that other people
Just jamb those books back in my face...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 17:30|| 2022-07-08 17:30|| Front Page Top

#23 VDH's literal trade is making cultural moments and narrating a trend.

It is up to us to find solutions, solutions which are unique to us as individuals.

Someone whose kids are all grown up might do so by exposing the chin music their employer's HR Department is throwing. Mine is to make sure my kids don't fall for the largest propaganda machine ever assembled. VDH did his by breaking with National Review colleagues in that propaganda effort, which had to be ballsy.

We are our solution. He is identifying the problem for us to solve.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-08 21:31|| 2022-07-08 21:31|| Front Page Top

#24 ^ This. He's probably barely keeping his affiliation with Stanford, et al

Posted by Frank G 2022-07-08 22:04|| 2022-07-08 22:04|| Front Page Top

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