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by smm2000 4712 days ago
It does not matter who is happier or have better life - middle class family in US or low-cast family in India. Sad fact is that ALL western societies are below replacement level. White US population is on decline (and it's not steep only because of conservative rural population). Depopulation is a bitch and nature hates void. Two kids are not replacement level - you need 2.33 kids on average.

Fertility rate for white female with college degree (liberal dream) is 1.6 in US. What it means? It means that it takes only 10 generations (180-250 years) to go from 150 million species to 15 million (10x reduction). That means that current model of liberal society just does not work from evolutional perspective. Being educated white female is a negative trait from evolutionary perspective.

I am saying this as somebody who has highly educated girlfriend and who is very unlikely to have more than two kids (one reason being that it takes 200k to send one kid to college).
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ordinary 4712 days ago
There is no such thing as a liberalism gene. Cultural evolution plays a much larger part in the development of human society than traditional biological evolution does. "Caucasians", insofar as that term has any scientific basis in fact, might be on the decline. Liberal society is not.
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smm2000 4711 days ago
It's only true if conservative=>liberal conversion continues in future which is not necessarily true. Currently liberal societies generally outperform conservative ones but historically it was often not the case.

Just look at Siege of Baghdad by mongolian hordes or depopulation and fall of Roman Empire.

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newnewnew 4712 days ago
This graph[1] is the number of children of white Americans age 44-55 by political leaning in the 2000-2010 GSS survey, which seems to suggest that there is a pattern of liberals breeding themselves into extinction. This graph[2] is the same thing over time.

[1] http://jaymans.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/tfr-us-by-lib-con...

[2] http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/whos-having-the-babi...

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megablast 4712 days ago
Don't you get it, this is our way of keeping the wealth to fewer and fewe people. That 1% will be turned into .5% soon, and we will all be twice as rich.
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