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Why the Left Fears Birthrates

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Hillary Clinton—perpetual candidate, bitter scold, and queen of projection—finally said the quiet part out loud again this week: she doesn’t like it when Americans have more children. Especially not when those children are born into households where parents love God, cherish life, and might—gasp—vote differently than she does. Her latest broadside came during a public discussion at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, where she scoffed at the idea of encouraging higher U.S. birthrates and instead suggested, “That’s why we have immigrants.”

Let that sink in.

In Clinton’s view, building families from within—through childbirth, parenting, and faith—is antiquated and unnecessary. Just import replacements. That’s her worldview: don’t raise your own kids, we’ll bus in a more politically useful class of future voters instead.

Her remarks were aimed squarely at J.D. Vance and Elon Musk, both of whom have sounded the alarm on America’s plunging birthrates. Musk has long warned that declining population is an existential threat to civilization. Vance, a father of three, has advocated pro-family policies that encourage parents to have more children. And in response? Hillary mocked them. Because they’re not talking about just any children—they’re talking about American children, likely raised with traditional values.

And Hillary Clinton doesn’t like those kinds of kids.

But who is she to criticize larger families, anyway? She raised one child—amid tremendous privilege, global influence, and the fawning protection of media elites. Meanwhile, millions of American families, some with five, six, even eight or more children, raise their kids with love, sacrifice, and conviction, often in conditions far less favorable. In coastal elite circles, large families are derided as backward or hyper-religious. But in truth, they are America’s best and most vital asset: units of resilience, character, and continuity.

It’s not the size of the family that Hillary and the Left fear—it’s what those families represent.

Let’s not pretend the modern Left even values childbirth. They cheer abortion like it’s a sacrament. They craft laws allowing for the dismemberment of children in the womb up to the moment of delivery. They mask death in euphemisms like “choice” or “reproductive justice.” Clinton herself is the face of this culture—a high priestess of abortion-on-demand who campaigned with Planned Parenthood like it was a cabinet post.

And if a child does make it out of the womb?

Well, then the Left shifts gears: separate the kids from their parents as fast as possible. Not at the border—but in the schools. From age 3, they want to hand your child over to state institutions. Public schools—overseen by unelected bureaucrats and ideological activists—are the new reeducation centers. Parents’ values? Irrelevant. Faith? Silenced. Independence? Quashed. And if you dare object, you might just get labeled a “domestic terrorist” by your own Justice Department.

They don’t want to raise your child. They want to program them.

That’s why they fight so hard to control what kids learn. It’s not just reading, writing, and arithmetic anymore. It’s drag queen story hour, racial essentialism, and sexual confusion before puberty. They’ll teach your child that America is evil, that biology is a social construct, and that you—the parent—are the obstacle to their liberation.

And why? Because to the Left, children aren’t individuals made in the image of God. They’re political instruments. They want them angry, alienated, and activated. They don’t want your kid growing up praying, pledging allegiance, or being proud of their family name. They want your kid marching, chanting, and voting left.

So when Elon Musk says we need more kids, and J.D. Vance says we should encourage families to grow—Hillary Clinton panics. Because every child born into a traditional family is one more threat to her dream of a reengineered society. Every home that teaches biblical truth, constitutional liberty, and personal responsibility is one less convert for her army of progressives.

She knows it.

She fears it.

And thank God—she can’t do anything to stop it.

Because American families are waking up. They’re rejecting the narrative. They’re choosing life. They’re embracing faith. They’re raising kids who think for themselves, respect their elders, and believe that truth is not subjective. These children are not liabilities. They’re blessings. They’re not burdens on the system. They are the system—the future of it, at least, if we have any hope of turning things around.

And Hillary Clinton can mock it all she wants.

But behind her scorn is fear. The Left thrives on control, and nothing is harder to control than a faith-filled family raising independent-minded children. These families don’t need Hillary. They don’t need handouts. They don’t need lectures. They’re building something better.

And in a world increasingly devoid of truth, that might be the most subversive act of all.