The news that JD Vance is having a fourth child, this time while vice president, is not only joyous for his family but a wonderful example of potency for the rest of America. We just hit a new low of 1.61 kids per woman, and the replacement rate is 2.1 kids per woman. That’s bad – the only reason our population is growing is because of the influx of aliens. But the good news is that patriotic, normal Americans like the Vances know how to reproduce, and the consensus on the right is growing that we need to get collectively biz-zay, if you know what I’m saying.
This New Virility is a powerful rejection of the miserable mindset of the SSRI-gobbling Chardonnay pseudo-women and their sexually inadequate male-identifying (sometimes) would-be mates. They just can’t seem to make it happen. They occasionally pop out a Kayden, and maybe an Ashleigh, but that’s not going to help grow the population because half of those rugrats are going to find infertility thrust upon them when their Munchausen mommy brings them to a doctor to carve them up according to her gender delusions. We reject that insanity. The future belongs to the people who show up (with their junk intact) and this is how you go about showing up.
When you choose to bring a fourth child into the world, as the Vances have, you’re making a bet on the future. You’re saying you want your people to be there for it. Someone’s going to be there, and I say it be us and our progeny, not someone else’s progeny. Congratulations to the Veep and his family for far exceeding the population replacement rate and pumping up those rookie numbers. Not everybody is doing it, but as the pasty femboys and tubby Bolsheviks we keep seeing showing up to protest America, Americans, and decency in general, demonstrate, not everybody can.
The population implosion is real. America may be a bit below replacement level, but Europe is way below, and don’t even ask about South Korea – just go short on K-pop futures. The birth dearth is the real crisis facing our civilization, and JD Vance is showing us how to solve it. Get out that Al Green record and some champagne and make it happen, people.
If you don’t, somebody else will, and he’s probably bringing jihad with him. Outside of civilization, out in the Third World, they’re still pumping out kids. And those kids want to come to Europe and America, where the people who don’t care enough to procreate are watching the sand fall through the hourglass. Why is what folks like Elon Musk recognize as the greatest threat to civilization – it’s not angering the pagan weather goddess so that it might be slightly warmer in a century – happening? There are a lot of reasons. In the past, you needed a bunch of kids because a significant number of them didn’t make it to adulthood. Well, we fixed that, despite the endless carping about our medical system, which delivers miracles to us on a regular basis. In the past, you needed kids to work and support you in your old age; well, now we’ve taken the responsibility for supporting our elderly and placed it on everybody. Then there’s birth control, and in the blue states, unrestricted abortion. That’s a lot of lost population right there.
A lot of women are waiting until far too late to try to have kids, building a career slaving for corporations until their biological Timexes have almost ticked to menopause-o’clock. It doesn’t help that a lot of men are reluctant to get married, whether because they are satisfied with a life of video games, onanism, and pot, or because they’re scared of women. They have reason to be – feminism has been an utter disaster for normal male/female relations. Then there’s money – they are facing an economy that enriches boomers and impoverishes the young, often with student loan debts weighing them down and no access to the kind of jobs that allowed their parents to buy a house before they started drawing Social Security.
Finally, kids get in the way of your fun, at least the self-indulgent kind of fun. No, we shouldn’t just hand-wave that away, because kids do cramp your style. It’s just that as an adult, you’re supposed to change your style. No, you’re probably not going to go to a mimosa-fueled brunch with your gaggle of friends every Sunday when you’ve got a baby. And no, you’re not going to be able to take off to Paris for the weekend with kids in the house. You’re going to be a nanny, a chauffeur, and a housekeeper, while your single friends are going to be out partying, at least until they get too old and it just becomes embarrassing. The fact is that the most important milestones for children are not when they take their first step, when they start kindergarten, and when they graduate from high school. It’s when they can stay with a babysitter, when they can stay home alone, and when they can drive themselves places.
It is when you choose to have kids that you truly choose to be an adult. The fact is, a lot of people in the West don’t want to grow up. They don’t want to take on the responsibility. They don’t want the hassle. And it is a lot of responsibility, and it’s a huge hassle. But if you look at people with kids, they seem to enjoy it. Oh, not all the time. Some kids are terrible. Some people go through horrible experiences with their kids. And it’s understandable that people who had terrible childhoods might be leery about undertaking raising a kid. But that’s not typical. The typical experience is positive. Yes, you can read in the lib journals that publish the rantings of the wine women about individuals who declare that they regret having kids, but that usually doesn’t happen in normal life, unless you hang around a lot of sociopaths.
Obviously, most of the burden of having kids falls on women because they are women. Mothers and fathers are different, and the direct responsibility of child-raising falls disproportionately upon moms. Anybody who tells you different is lying to you. Motherhood is an accomplishment; we need to respect it while the left disparages it. But the fact that you have kids doesn’t mean that you aren’t accomplished outside of motherhood. Usha Vance has perhaps the most impressive legal résumé I’ve ever seen. She’s a superstar. She could do anything she wants in the law, and she’s one of those people you look at and say, “This is a potential Supreme Court justice.” And she chooses to be a mom. She’s got her priorities straight. The fact is that for most people, you’re going to die and you’re going to be forgotten, except by the people who love you. And that’s typically your kids. IBM doesn’t care about you or your marketing degree.
But choosing to have kids isn’t a completely personal decision. Do it for mankind. This is civilizational. Having kids shows optimism. It’s an act of faith. Look at the people who are broodmaxxing. It’s disproportionately traditional and religious people. Orthodox Jewish people are growing in numbers, as are committed Christians. Traditional Catholics are doing the same – I’m sure the leftist clergy will find something wrong with that. And folks like Charlie Kirk, before they murdered him for telling the truth about so many things, not only lived the example but promoted the idea of getting married younger and having kids. He was all about family because family is the basis of our civilization. If you don’t have a strong family structure as a foundation, your culture will be morally adrift and unstable. You know, kind of like all the blue cities are.
We can outbreed the left. Do your duty and do it.
JD Vance has an opportunity to take the lead here, not merely through setting the example by repudiating the leftists’ figurative and literal impotence but by advocating for policies that will make it possible for young people to do what normal young people should be doing. They should get married before they get gray and have lots of kids. And of course, the next big milestone is for him and Usha to have number five arrive while he’s President #48.
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