Opinion | Mockery Won't Increase Fertility
Briefly

I am an enthusiastic natalist. By that I mean that I want our nation to grow, I want people to have as many children as they want to have, and I want those people who are on the fence about having children to feel encouraged about their ability to raise one. I'm not a natalist for economic reasons... I also believe that life itself is good.
At the political level, it strikes me as mostly futile. It has more promise as a cultural cause, but even then it is often scolding and even malicious... He's mocking those who live differently. When a prominent right-wing activist like Charlie Kirk says that the childless are the ones that are destroying the country and adds that if you're bad, you probably don't have children, he's doing much the same thing.
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