Weighing on on the natalism discourse

Once again, online is a bad reflection of liberal-left opinion.

A lot of discourse this weekend about natalism, mostly prompted by Elizabeth Bruenig’s recent coverage of the right’s Natal Conference in Texas. It was, if nothing else, a vivid reminder that online is not real life. All you have to do is acquaint yourself with the natalist policies of the Soviet Union, or Xi’s China, or the Nordics to notice that left governments have a long history of encouraging higher birthrates. Or you can simply be an ordinary liberal Democrat, since a plurality of liberal Democrats think declining birth rates will have negative consequences for the US:

For my part, I agree with President Xi and the plurality of Democrats that increasing birthrates can be a useful policy objective. You may not want to do this if for example you think that your ecosystem is approaching carrying capacity¹, but you may want to do this if for example you think that younger generations are not large enough to support those entering retirement. This is an utterly ordinary liberal-left perspective on the topic, which I probably do not even have to tell you because most people are already familiar with it.