I moved here from America last year because they have tuition free college, and I'm honestly impressed with how stupid and evil this country is. Like I truly believe there is less revolutionary potential here than in America. Say what you will about America, but there is a general social attitude that does not put up with these bullshit opinions being publicly voiced.
Overall, Germany has some cool stuff going on, but they're also quite stupid and clueless.
It's not acceptable in the US because the civil rights movement and its offspring made it unacceptable to be publicly and explicitly racist. The result however is that many Americans are still racist, but act in a more concealed manner. The same process is also happening in Europe, however it didn't happen as fast since there wasn't a civil rights movement and as many black people demanding for these attitudes to end, so in many places this sort of stuff isn't unacceptable publicly yet. Like, this isn't even so old, the same debate was big on English language internet like 5 years ago.
Oh also recently an aging population has become the bane of Europe. The place is full of boomers so they have achieved boomer cultural dominance. It sucks.
Their demographics have already collapsed beyond the point of no return. A healthy society has more young people than old, but Germany (and most of the rest of Europe) is backwards. Civilizations don't come back from this.
But don't hold your breath. These things take 30-60 years to play out. But play out they will. Europe is headed for a prolonged period of negative growth and their dependence on the US is just going to grow stronger. The wildcard is the immigrants: will they outbreed the native population and seize power with elections, or will they be seduced by the soft life and become just like their hosts? The jury is still out.
That's a stretch. There are easily identifiable reasons for the lower birth rates in most cases.
Yeah, instead of children being an asset, helping out on the farm, they're a liability, costing a huge amount to care for and educate.
That trend isn't going away. Low birth rates aren't going to get better. And honestly, the fewer westerners in the world, the better.
Financial insecurity is the main reason there aren't more births. Saying there will be low birth rates forever presupposes there will always be financial insecurity forever.
Sure they do. Eventually, you get an immigrant influx or a baby boom (or both) and the dynamic reverses.
But there's nothing magical about youth. As Matt always says, the lay person doesn't get a choice in their ideology. It's all a consequence of region and parentage.
We aren't going to impregnate our way to a leftist future.