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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 13, 2023

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The quick answer, because it's the reverse of how the US knocked the last bit of fertility off, is to encourage teenage pregnancy. The trick is to get the NGO/academia/media matrix to do it to themselves. Maybe start railing against how some high school has so many students with babies that there's an unofficial day-care. Once the NGO/academia/media matrix knows my Trumpian majesty is against it, they'll be for it, and all I have to do is fight it badly.

The “matrix” already knows that right-wingers, even populist ones, are against teen pregnancy. I submit, as evidence, any article written about the takedown of Roe v. Wade.

Yet these devilish authorities aren’t trying to Make Adolescents Gravid Again. Perhaps because it’s obviously against their values, because it offends their audience’s sensibilities, or because there’s no real upside?

Your enemies aren’t stupid.

The “matrix” already knows that right-wingers, even populist ones, are against teen pregnancy.

Yes, that's why it has a chance of working.

Trump on several occasions managed to drive the left to overreaction, sometimes in trivial ways (having them denounce Western Civilization when he praised it), sometimes in more impactful ones, like the pushing of trans ideology in schools (which may have lost them the Virginia governorship). I'm not suggesting pushing the left to openly Make Adolescents Gravid Again, only to take action which will result in that even as they swear it won't.

Getting the media to denounce something is easy. Getting an overreach on gender is…I don’t know that it’s easy, but I also don’t think Trumpism deserves credit/blame for that one? I guess he really inspired various forms of idpol opposition, so maybe that let Virginia’s curriculum get off the ground. Not sure.

Regardless, boosting teen pregnancy seems like a much more difficult outcome. Words are cheap, social trends are expensive. What mechanism do you think a Trump-deranged opposition would set in motion?

Figure out which sorts of programs actually caused the drop in teen pregnancy. Then promote them. For instance, if programs with the message that it's hard to go to college with a kid worked, push them, in such a way that the opposition will insist that it's actually no problem and desirable for a women to have a baby while getting a degree. Yes, this is a very high degree of derangement, but I believe a Trump-like figure could cause it.

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