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Ah, the good ol' "Republicans have no solutions" trope. I have lots of solutions!

Belief in God results in increased fertility rates: https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2015/02/association...

Instead, our government has been increasingly hostile towards the practice of religion, especially from the judicial bench, for most of the 20th and 21st centuries. We need to do more to encourage and support religious belief and expression, but we are instead doing the opposite.

Really, religion results in happy marriages in general: https://www.dailywire.com/news/ny-times-op-ed-admits-somethi...

From the article:

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The study, titled, “The Ties That Bind: Is Faith A Global Force for Good Or Ill In The Family,” made some statements sure to upset the anti-religious members of the Times staff, including:

“When it comes to relationship quality in heterosexual relationships, highly religious couples enjoy higher-quality relationships and more sexual satisfaction, compared to less/mixed religious couples and secular couples.”

“When it comes to fertility, data from low-fertility countries in the Americas, East Asia, and Europe show that religion’s positive influence on fertility has become stronger in recent decades. Today, people ages 18-49 who attend religious services regularly have 0.27 more children than those who never, or practically never, attend.”

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Next solution. The sexual revolution and 2nd-wave-and-beyond feminism were highly detrimental to the family and to fertility, and the sooner we can unite against both, the better. The soviet union's sexual revolution predated ours by decades, but they were smart enough to roll it back after realizing just how disastrously it affected the country: https://poloniainstitute.net/recommended/the-bolshevik-sexua...

It's interesting to note that the Bolsheviks also wanted mandatory universal child care. That's not a coincidence, by the way! From the linked article:

"The Bolsheviks also wanted to take care of all children at birth, taking them from their parents and placing them in nurseries. Officially, they intended to free women from taking care of children so that they could devote themselves entirely to their work. In fact, for the indoctrination and creation of the so-called new man. Zlata Lilina, an official of the People’s Commissariat for National Affairs, stated in 1921 that when children were placed outside the home, one acted for their good: “The family is individualistic and selfish, and if a child is raised in it, it becomes largely anti-social and develops selfish tendencies … Raising children is not a private matter of parents, but the task of society .”"

Next solution. Reducing government spending means the people will have more money because there will be less inflation, less taxes, and less national debt. This will make it easier to raise families and for one parent to stay home and be a full-time parent.

Next solution. We need school vouchers, first and foremost because the public school system is doing terribly and it needs competition as an incentive to improve. Second, the morality and ethics generally taught in public schools and in our universities is anti-family and the opposite of what is needed to support families and society. As long as we are spending money on education, we should fund more private and religious schools that do a better job of both educating and teaching good morals.

We also need a return to a belief that Western civilization is something to be proud of and worth preserving. When you believe our very civilization is corrupt to the core, you're less likely to want to have children. This will be more likely to happen with school vouchers, but also by having government spend less money and time funding ideologies like CRT and the transgender movement, both of which are extremely anti-family.

We also need to instill a greater sense of personal responsibility in people towards society. We don't just have children for ourselves. We do it for the next generation. Really, we need to restore the moral principles we used to have and even took for granted. Instead, today these very morals are labeled as "white supremacist" by CRT activists.

https://www.amren.com/videos/2021/11/the-nuclear-family-is-w...

https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rationa...

Here's the best part: being happier makes you want to have kids more, and conservatives are happier than progressives: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/opinion/conservatives-lib...

None of these things are accidents. Leftist movements are fundamentally atheist, anti-Christian, anti-family, and anti-Western civilization. Supporting them makes people unhappier in general, makes them have unhappier marriages, and makes them have less kids. It comes down to your core belief system, and "progressives" are about as regressive as it gets in that arena.