It's tough to avoid commenting every day on just how terrible the media in this country has become.
Obviously, over the course of the last week, we've all seen in real time what so many of our "institutions of higher learning" have become - woke cesspools of shallow thinking and morally stunted, impassioned activism. So maybe it comes as no surprise what those fool factories are producing from their journalism departments.
But even in this era where it's tough to be surprised by media ignorance, this story from Politico was in a class by itself:
If you can get past the hilarious written lede, take a gander at that title: "The Far Right's Campaign to Explode the Population."
I know you're tempted to question whether the author, Gaby Del Valle, was actually serious. This is a woman, after all, with a resume that is ... well, just look:
Politico isn't sending their best these days.
Still, it doesn't seem possible that someone managed to get through all the years of school necessary to earn a degree and yet believes that human procreation is some sort of nefarious scheme by right-wing radicals. But please, remember the schools these journos are going to, then realize that Ms. Del Valle was sober when she wrote the subtitle:
Behind the scenes at the first Natal Conference, where a motley alliance is throwing out the idea of winning converts to their cause and trying to make their own instead.
What I can't really get over is the ominous tone that defines Del Valle's piece. I keep waiting for something untoward to be revealed about this "NatalCon" gathering that apparently happened in Austin, Texas, at the end of last year. But after reading the whole piece, the only thing I know is that those attending believe that low fertility rates and long-term population decline is a threat to future growth. That isn't bad. In fact, it's something we should all be talking about a lot more than we are; and it's certainly more pressing of a "crisis" than pretending that by passing laws creating global poverty while enriching governments we will change earth's climate.
Del Valle's concern seems to center around the idea that if these NatalConners have their way, our society will start focusing on families and kids again.
She writes, "natalism is often about more than raising birth rates, though that is certainly one of its aims; for many in the room, the ultimate goal is a total social overhaul, a culture in which child-rearing is paramount."
The horror! A society that values children??
Imagine it: A society that values raising children. A society that realizes what happens in the home is more important for the future of civilization than what happens in the classroom, in the boardroom, or in the halls of government.
Towards the midway point of this bizarre report, Del Valle lets the progressive cat out of the bag, sneering, "This conference suggests there's a simple way around the problem of majority rule: breeding a new majority — one that looks and sounds just like them."
As opposed, Ms. Del Valle, to indoctrinating a new majority on campus - one that looks and sounds just like you?
To be fair, I do think her apparent fears over this sly, devious, novel plan to, um, have children like humans have done since the dawn of time, are somewhat justified. If you worship at the altars of progressivism, after all, you can't help but notice that the numbers aren't ultimately in your favor if the other side celebrates having babies, while your side celebrates aborting them. Long-term, making, having, and loving kids puts your movement on more solid footing than exterminating them.
And maybe that's the story that should be written here, Politico. Rather than publishing a mini-novel by an author who seems to struggle holding down a job - rather than permitting her to spend 3,000 words on your website trying desperately to make something seem dangerous about having children - maybe a think piece about the long-term implications of this would be beneficial:
