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Its own cure?
September 18th, 2006Op-ed writers from the seat of capitalism (the Wall Street Journal) to the seat of insanity (the San Francisco Chronicle) are titillated by a biological phenomenon.
But aren’t we all?
In this case, writers salivate over a statistical sociological scoop concerning how liberalism may be curing itself through Darwinist deselection. Specifically these ecstatic essayists are pointing to an obscure detail in the 2004 General Social Survey, which is considered by some to be the ongoing sociological roadmap of America.
Buried in these 67 megabytes of detailed dope is the odd fact that conservatives are boinking more than liberals. Well, maybe they are not hitting the sheets more often, but they are certainly spending that time more reproductively. 41% more reproductively than their left-of-center lay abouts.
Editorialists have mixed speculation why white-bread women are whelping wantonly. Some blame the influx of southern immigrants, who are by-and-large conservative and reputed by comedian Carlos Mencia to be amply fertile. Others refrain to 1988 mega predictions of how America’s population would age, migrate south, become more suburban … more conservative.
My speculation has to do with hope. Conservatives appear to feel fewer threats, even in the most threatening of times. Those who believe the world will become progressively better (which is not to say more “progressive”), or at least not get any worse, do not fear baking more broods. In short, they are breeding more than just optimism. One only has to read Al Gore’s (inaccurate) population projections in “Earth in the Balance” to discover both the inverse of the theorem, and the not-so-subtle mindset that bringing children into an allegedly decaying world is a moral mistake.
What should really be bothering the infecund left is that four out of five people who have a preference in political parties pursue their parent’s. Culling to the obvious, this generally means Republican’s are creating 41% more Republicans every day than Democrats are creating Democrats. Over a couple of generations of compounded carnal interest, the philosophical right will simple out muscle the less ardent left.
A left-wing friend of mine (a functional necessity here in San Francisco) complained about this very issue, until I suggested that one of the cures required somebody having sex with Michael Moore, and would she be kind enough to volunteer? By her expression, I’m guessing not.
