The Imperial Presidency

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If they want people to have more kids, let them feel like they're financially secure and can reasonably expect stability for at least a decade naybe? You know, so the prospect of an extra mouth and medical expenses and school supplies and everything else doesn't look so daunting. Maybe get on controlling that climate change stuff too, so people don't have to worry about their kidws and grandkids being left a woeld of alternating wildfires and hurricanes with a special side order of famine as staple crops fail to adapt fast enough and/or pollinators die off from the new extremes.

I mean, none of that agrees with the party line, but physical reality is shockingly indifferent to quid pro quo, ideology, and polemic alike.