We would be better off if Democrats would stop killing their babies and have their own kids as opposed to trying to brainwash other people's kids.
The Demographic War: How Democrats Abandoned Their Own Future to Control Yours
There is a truth so obvious that it has become invisible, so foundational that it is rarely spoken aloud in polite political discourse. Yet it underpins nearly every cultural and political battle of our time. The Democratic Party has made a calculated decision: they will not have enough children to sustain their own vision of society, so they have set about gaining control of everyone else's.
The social media post that prompted this reflection puts it with refreshing bluntness: "We would be better off if Democrats would stop killing their babies and have their own kids as opposed to trying to brainwash other people's kids." This is not merely a rhetorical jab. It is a profound observation about the demographic reality of modern America and the political strategies that have emerged in response to it.
The Demographic Divide
The numbers are stark and undeniable. According to the Pew Research Center, religiously affiliated Americans who lean conservative have higher birth rates than secular Americans, who lean liberal. The fertility rate among white evangelical Protestants is 2.1 children per woman, above the replacement level of 2.1. Among white mainline Protestants, it is 1.8. Among white Catholics, it is 1.7. Among religiously unaffiliated Americans the fastest-growing demographic group and the core of the progressive coalition the fertility rate is just 1.4 children per woman.
This is not an accident. It is the product of a worldview that prioritizes individual fulfillment over family formation, career advancement over child-rearing, and sexual liberation over marital commitment. The progressive value system, whatever its rhetorical commitment to "inclusivity" and "diversity," has proven itself demographically sterile. It produces fewer children than it needs to sustain itself, let alone to grow.
The Abortion Question: 65% and Counting
The post's reference to "killing their babies" points to the most direct expression of this demographic reality. Since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision returned abortion policy to the states, the abortion industry and its political allies have fought to enshrine abortion on demand, at any stage, for any reason, funded by taxpayers. The numbers are staggering: approximately 65% of abortions are now performed at home using abortion pills a practice that has an 11% complication rate, higher than FDA standards for most medications.
For conservatives, this is not merely a policy disagreement. It is a moral catastrophe. The Democratic Party has positioned itself as the party of abortion absolutism, opposing even modest restrictions like parental notification laws, late-term abortion bans, and protections for babies born alive after failed abortions. This position is not supported by the majority of Americans, who favor reasonable limits, but it is demanded by the party's activist base and the billion-dollar abortion industry that funds its campaigns.
The consequence is that Democratic-leaning populations abort their children at higher rates than Republican-leaning populations. According to the Guttmacher Institute, blue states have higher abortion rates than red states. New York, California, and Illinois states with the most permissive abortion laws also have the highest abortion rates. Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas states with the most restrictive laws have among the lowest.
This is not correlation without causation. When a party champions abortion as a positive good, celebrates it as "healthcare," and demands that taxpayers fund it, it should not be surprised when its constituents avail themselves of the service. The Democratic Party has effectively subsidized the non-birth of its own future voters.
The Schoolhouse Strategy
Which brings us to the second half of the post: "trying to brainwash other people's kids." Having failed to produce enough children of their own, progressives have set about capturing the children of those who do.
This is not a conspiracy theory; it is a stated strategy. The progressive left understands that if they cannot outbreed conservatives, they must out-teach them. And so they have poured enormous resources into capturing the institutions that shape young minds: public schools, teachers' unions, curriculum boards, textbook publishers, and now, increasingly, the family itself.
Consider what has happened to American education in the past generation. Schools that once taught reading, writing, and arithmetic now teach critical race theory, which divides children by skin color and teaches them that their country is irredeemably racist. They teach gender ideology, which tells children that they can be born in the wrong body and that their biological sex is a social construct. They teach sexual education that normalizes every form of sexual expression while denigrating traditional morality as oppressive.
Parents who object to any of this are labeled bigots, extremists, or domestic terrorists. School boards that once answered to local communities now answer to federal bureaucrats and national teachers' unions. Curriculum is designed not by parents but by activists with advanced degrees in grievance studies and a deep contempt for the American way of life.
The Department of Education, originally created to ensure equal access to education, has become a weapon of cultural warfare. Under Democratic administrations, it has threatened to withhold funding from schools that do not adopt progressive curricula. It has investigated parents who dare to speak at school board meetings. It has imposed Title IX interpretations that require schools to allow biological males who identify as female to compete in girls' sports and use girls' locker rooms.
The Family Under Assault
This assault on parental authority is not accidental. It is the logical extension of a worldview that sees the traditional family as an obstacle to progressive transformation. The family, after all, transmits values from one generation to the next. It preserves traditions, instills morality, and creates loyalty to country, community, and faith. For progressives who seek to remake society from the ground up, the family is a rival institution that must be weakened and, ultimately, replaced by the state.
Hence the relentless attacks on parental rights. Hence the insistence that children have "privacy" from their parents when it comes to gender transitions. Hence the laws that allow minors to receive hormonal treatments and surgeries without parental knowledge or consent. Hence the efforts to remove parents from the process entirely, replacing them with school counselors and social workers who share the progressive worldview.
The irony is that the same progressives who demand absolute autonomy for women to abort their unborn children insist that parents have no right to direct the education and upbringing of their living children. The unborn child is a matter of private choice; the born child is a matter of public control. This is not consistency; it is ideology.
The Cultural Capture
Beyond the schools, progressives have captured virtually every major cultural institution. Hollywood produces entertainment that relentlessly promotes progressive values while mocking traditional ones. The news media filters every story through a progressive lens. Social media platforms censor conservative voices while amplifying progressive propaganda. Corporations that once stayed out of politics now compete to demonstrate their progressive credentials, imposing diversity quotas, celebrating Pride Month, and punishing employees who dissent.
Children absorb this propaganda constantly. They watch television shows that feature every form of sexual deviance as normal and healthy. They use smartphones that deliver a constant stream of content designed to shape their values and attitudes. They attend colleges where conservative speakers are shouted down and conservative students are marginalized. By the time they reach adulthood, many have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the progressive worldview even if their parents raised them differently.
This is what the post means by "brainwashing." It is not an exaggeration. It is an accurate description of a coordinated effort to shape the minds of the next generation in ways that parents cannot control and often cannot even see.
The Conservative Response: Reclaiming the Future
Conservatives cannot match progressives dollar for dollar or platform for platform. We do not have Hollywood. We do not have the mainstream media. We do not have the universities or the major corporations. What we have is something more powerful: we have children.
The demographic advantage conservatives enjoy is not accidental. It flows from a worldview that values life, family, and tradition. It is the product of communities that still believe that children are a blessing, not a burden; that marriage is a sacred covenant, not a disposable contract; that the purpose of life is not individual fulfillment but service to God, family, and country.
If conservatives will simply have children and raise them in the faith, we will win the future. Not through political manipulation or cultural capture, but through the simple arithmetic of reproduction. Our children will outnumber theirs. Our values will be transmitted naturally, through the love and teaching of parents, not imposed artificially through state power.
But we must also fight for the children who are not ours. We must defend parental rights against the encroachments of the state. We must demand transparency in education and accountability from school boards. We must create alternative institutions classical schools, homeschool networks, conservative media that can compete with the progressive monoculture. We must never surrender the public square, even when it seems hopelessly stacked against us.
Conclusion: The Arithmetic of Freedom
The Democratic Party has made a choice. It has chosen abortion over birth, the state over the family, and indoctrination over education. It has chosen to kill its own babies and brainwash everyone else's. And it now finds itself demographically dependent on immigration to replace the native-born population it has aborted out of existence.
Conservatives have made a different choice. We choose life. We choose family. We choose the messy, demanding, glorious work of raising children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. We choose to pass on our faith, our values, and our heritage to the next generation. And we choose to fight for the right of all parents to do the same.
In the long run, this choice will determine the outcome of every political battle. Demography is destiny. The side that has children will inherit the earth. The side that kills them will inherit the wind.
So let the Democrats cry about unaffordability and illegal immigration and all the other consequences of their own choices. Let them wring their hands about why working-class voters have abandoned them. The answer is simple: those voters have children, and they have noticed that the Democratic Party does not value them.
We would be better off if Democrats stopped killing their babies and started raising their own. But since they won't, we will raise ours and we will raise them to know the difference between freedom and tyranny, truth and propaganda, life and death. That is the conservative mission. That is the conservative future. And that is why, in the end, we will win.
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