Zero population growth is making liberals an endangered species -- and soon, extinct.
Demographics are creating an inconceivable problem for liberals -- procreate or dissipate. Will they say goodbye to "Beat It," the B-52's and birth control and hello to "Bolero," Barry White and babies?
The fertility rate in states that voted for President George W. Bush averages more than 11 percent higher than in states that voted for his main opponent, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, in 2004, according to Phillip Longman, a fellow at the New America Foundation. The liberal Chicken Littles who had screamed for decades about the supposed devastation of overpopulation convinced themselves it was true. They thereby created devastating consequences for the dwindling number of their fellow liberals.
Poetic justice at its most just.
Mr. Longman argues that progressives ("liberals") are less likely to have children. And because of that, there will not be enough of the progressives' progeny to offset the anticipated larger numbers of conservative voters.
Score one for traditional family values.
"Childlessness and small families are increasingly the norm today among progressive secularists," he wrote in USA Today. "As a consequence, an increasing share of all children born into the world are descended from a share of the population whose conservative values have led them to raise large families."
It sounds like this generation's so-called missile gap.
Clearly, the Left did not foresee this population bomb. Nearly 20 percent of American women born in the late 1950s are reaching the end of their reproductive lives without having kids. And because a disproportionate share are liberals (feminists and members of the counterculture), they will leave no genetic legacy, while American culture will drift toward religious fundamentalism and social conservatism, he said. Just like in Europe because of similar circumstances.
Liberal males who are ready, willing and able to ... um ... take one for the team might not appreciate how hard it could be.
Women who are politically conservative typically look much more appealing than liberal ones to most red-blooded American men.
And no, this is not a setup for a cheap joke about allure-challenged feminists, which some would argue is redundant.
A conservative woman is much more likely to get all gussied up, including wearing killer 6-inch stiletto heels, to look attractive to a man. And much less likely to complain about feeling violated or filing a lawsuit whenever he risks giving her a compliment about how hot she looks.
And that is very bad news for the liberal male because few self-respecting conservative females would date a liberal let alone allow him to father what could be bi-political children.
Which leaves the politically liberal women willing to take one for the team.
However, since those women would not do anything that might send a sexist signal, like styling their hair, using makeup or wearing a little something from Victoria's Secret, the liberal male must convince himself, somehow, that she is in fact a sex object. However, actually saying it out loud could trigger a negative response, the filing of court papers and confirmation that men are pigs.
Liberals have hope -- Bill Clinton did marry Hillary Rodham -- but not much. They had one child.
