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Are Progressives Headed Toward Demographic Oblivion?

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 8/30/2025 1:19:40 AM

Would anyone be surprised if they were? After all, progressives have spent decades championing abortion at all phases of pregnancy right up to birth -- and sometimes immediately after. Over the last decade, they have taken up the Queer Movement's transgender campaign and demanded pediatric sex-change therapies that leave adolescents neutered for life. Their climate-change agenda emphasizes the need for population reversal and rails over the insult to Gaia that human procreation creates. They're not exactly kid-friendly, in other words. But don't just rely on instincts and political posturing on this question, because actual data shows that progressives practice what they preach. Financial Times analyst John Burn-Murdoch

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Reply 1 - Posted by: kono 8/30/2025 1:51:13 AM (No. 1997317)
Don't pull a muscle celebrating the defeat of this foe. They have a nagging way of reviving from the political grave. Kind of like dandelions and crabgrass keep coming back after their apparent demise.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Lawsy0 8/30/2025 1:58:35 AM (No. 1997318)
Crabgrass and dandelions. A perfect analogy! Thank you, poster #1.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: crashnburn 8/30/2025 3:20:47 AM (No. 1997326)
I'd like to add poison ivy and poison oak to the list. They aren't just nuisances, but extremely irritating!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Strike3 8/30/2025 3:26:37 AM (No. 1997327)
If abortion was not actually murder and trans surgery was not intentional mutilation that destroys a person's ability to procreate, I would consider their diminishing numbers a net benefit to civilization. Instead, it's all pushed by the medical industry in the name of the Dollar.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: seamusm 8/30/2025 6:21:24 AM (No. 1997355)
As long as nearly every university is manned by faculty who train their leftist replacements, it won't matter if progressives choose to murder their own children or not procreate at all. Because these malevolent fools are also the teachers of our young children who are groomed towards evil and just plain stupidity.
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