Damn. Progressivism deselected by Darwinian forces? Who knew? Can it, should it be fought against? YES. To the extent that the fight is against PSED (Pain, Suffering, and Early Death) that comes from the ascension of a Conservative Dynasty.
Notable. Seen in THE WEEK: Confidential Intelligence Briefing Referenced from a FOREIGN POLICY article by Phillip Longman, October 20, 2009.
How Darwinism will create a conservative dynasty in America
For a glimpse of a nation's future, said Phillip Longman in Foreign Policy, pay a visit to Seattle and Salt Lake City. Seattle, a city of highly educated progressives, "has 45 percent more dogs than children." Traditional Salt Lake has "19 percent more kids than dogs."
It's a striking pattern, found throughout the U.S. and Europe -- and it will have profound implications for what kind of societies we'll leave for our ancestors. Fertility is now highly correlated to political and religious beliefs. The more progressive and secular you are, the less likely you are to have a big family; the more conservative and religious you are, the larger your family is likely to be. In religious Utah, for example, the birth rate is 92 children for every 1,000 women, the highest in the nation. By contrast, highly progressive Vermont -- the first state to embrace gay unions -- has the country's lowest fertility rate, just 51 children per 1,000 women. "Among states that voted for President Bush in 2004, the average fertility rate is 12 percent higher than the rate of states for Sen. John Kerry."
Almost 20 percent of American women who came of age in the counter cultural 1960s and '70s are approaching the end of their fertility cycles without reproducing, meaning that millions of progressive feminists are bequeathing "no generational legacy." Whether you like the implications of these numbers or not, the trend is clear: We're headed for "a far more conservative future, one in which patriarchy and other traditional values make a comeback, if only by default."
It's a striking pattern, found throughout the U.S. and Europe -- and it will have profound implications for what kind of societies we'll leave for our ancestors. Fertility is now highly correlated to political and religious beliefs. The more progressive and secular you are, the less likely you are to have a big family; the more conservative and religious you are, the larger your family is likely to be. In religious Utah, for example, the birth rate is 92 children for every 1,000 women, the highest in the nation. By contrast, highly progressive Vermont -- the first state to embrace gay unions -- has the country's lowest fertility rate, just 51 children per 1,000 women. "Among states that voted for President Bush in 2004, the average fertility rate is 12 percent higher than the rate of states for Sen. John Kerry."
Almost 20 percent of American women who came of age in the counter cultural 1960s and '70s are approaching the end of their fertility cycles without reproducing, meaning that millions of progressive feminists are bequeathing "no generational legacy." Whether you like the implications of these numbers or not, the trend is clear: We're headed for "a far more conservative future, one in which patriarchy and other traditional values make a comeback, if only by default."
http://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/20/...of-patriarchy/
