Tuesday, October 8, 2024

childless cat ladies

 


Childless cat ladies

 

J.D.Vance is the first person that I am aware of who discussed the term shown above. He has a number of goofy ideas, including his belief that women without children are somehow not as valuable to society. He has even proposed allowing families with children more votes because “they have a larger stake in society”.




He is ignoring the fact that many women either can’t have children, or do not want them.

There ARE a number of childless women who have made significant contributions to society. Both Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey have donated millions of dollars to society, and there are numerous women who lead major corporations.

Kamala Harris has not given birth to any biological children, but she IS stepmother to the children of Doug Emhoff. She also has been a prosecutor, a senator, a vice-president, and a presential candidate. Her adopted children call her MOMala.

 

Remember Sara Huckabee Sanders?




She was a press secretary for Donald Trump, but later got elected governor of Arkansas.

SarahHuckabee Sanders blasts Harris for not having biological kids (usatoday.com)

During a campaign event for former President Donald Trump Tuesday, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested Vice President Kamala Harris is not humble because she does not have biological children.

The comments came during a town hall the governor moderated in Flint, Michigan, at first joking about how her children’s innocent remarks can make her feel humble despite her high-profile position.

“You can walk into a room like this where people cheer when you step onto the stage and you might think for a second that you’re kind of special,” Sanders said. “Then you go home and your kids remind you very quickly that you’re not that big of a deal.”

She kept on the theme of humility before pivoting to the Democratic nominee for president. “So, my kids keep me humble,” she said to the crowd, pausing for a few seconds. “Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”

Harris has two stepchildren through her marriage to Doug Emhoff, Ella and Cole Emhoff, and has often spoken about her role as stepmom or, using her nickname, “Momala.” Kerstin Emhoff, the ex-wife of Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, has been a vocal supporter of Harris’ campaign and has repeatedly celebrated Harris’ role as stepmother to her two kids.

“Kamala Harris has spent her entire career working for the people, ALL families,” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, in response to Sanders’ comments. “That keeps you pretty humble.”

Sanders’ brazen comments are not out of the norm, as the governor has become known for making bold claims and embracing ‘culture war’ issues, especially concerning gender. She has fought against the Biden administration’s IX updates, and last year signed an executive order banning what she calls “woke, anti-women” words in government. The order states that the government should “reject language that ignores, undermines, and erases women,” and should “celebrate gender distinctions between men and women—not erase them.”

The demographics of our country has changed dramatically since I was a child.

DemographicTurning Points for the United States (census.gov)

The year 2030 marks a demographic turning point for the United States. Beginning that year, all baby boomers will be older than 65 years of age. This will expand the size of the older population so that one in every five Americans is projected to be of retirement age. Later that decade, by 2034, we project that older adults will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. The year 2030 marks another demographic first for the United States. That year, because of population aging, immigration is projected to overtake natural increase (the excess of births over deaths) as the primary driver of population growth for the country.
 
Beyond 2030, the U.S. population is projected to grow slowly, age considerably, and become more racially and ethnically diverse. Despite slowing population growth, particularly after 2030, the U.S. population is still expected to grow by 79 million people by 2060, crossing the 400 million threshold in 2058.

21charts that explain how the US is changing | vox.com

 The US population is changing drastically, particularly in the areas of race and ethnicity. By 2050, white non-Hispanics will be a minority of the American population, according to Census projections. The biggest reason for that decline is the growth of the Hispanic population, whose share is set to nearly double between 2010 and 2050, from 16 to 30 percent. Though immigration is one reason for this shift, a large part of it is that white non-Hispanics aren't having as many babies as minorities. As of 2012, the majority of all babies born in the US were minorities.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-by-race-ethnicity-and-education/

In April of this year, 56% of white voters were registered as Republicans, versus 41% who registered as Democrats. Hispanic voters favored Democrats 61% to 35% Republic. Black voters were overwhelmingly Democrat (83%) to 12% Republican. Asian voters also favored Democrats (63% to 35% Republicans.

White Republicans are nervous because their numbers are shrinking, and minority groups are increasing As a result, they have resorted to voters suppression tactics to make it harder for minorities (who favor Democrats), and they got a lot of help from the Supreme Court (in Shelby County v Holder) that Section 5 of the Civil Rights Act was no longer necessary, which opened up more restrictive voting rules in the majority of the states in the country,

In effect, what J.D. Vance is promoting is similar to what Nazi Germany did in the 1930’s.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/lebensborn-program-the-woman-who-gave-birth-for-hitler

In 1935, Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the holocaust, decided to redefine motherhood.

The reason was the declining German population. World War I resulted in the decimation of the country's young male population. More than 2,000,000 German soldiers had been killed, and intermarriage with Jews and others deemed "inferior" by Nazis had made the population "racially impure," as Himmler termed it.

In addition, more than 800,000 pregnancies ended in abortion every year. This decline was unacceptable to Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, who were dreaming of creating a racially pure Nazi-Aryan nation.

It was in that context that the Lebensborn “super baby” breeding program was created. “Lebensborn" means "wellspring of life" or "fountain of life." The Lebensborn project was one of the most secretive and disgusting Nazi programs ever created. Heinrich Himmler himself initiated the Lebensborn project on December 12, 1935.

The disgusting program was a system of supervised selective breeding in which unmarried ‘racially pure’ women were instructed to have children with Nazi officers and create a “super race” for the German Reich that would rule for a thousand years — the ultimate goal of Lebensborn.

The plan started with Germany and gradually expanded to occupied countries, most notably in Scandinavia, where the Nordic gene with its blond hair and blue eyes was considered classically Aryan and was particularly favored by Himmler, who set up the majority of the Lebensborn centers in Nazi-occupied Norway.

As a first step, the mother and father must pass a “racial purity” test to be admitted into the program. Blond-haired and blue-eyed people were preferred, and family lineage had to be traceable and pure up to at least three generations. The criterion was strict; only 40 percent of women passed the purity test. Most of the mothers were unwed.

 

The first Lebensborn family home was opened in 1936 in Steinhoering, a nondescript village near Munich. The furnishings and the décor for these homes were best in class, looted from Jews and other people in occupied countries.

In these homes, “racially pure” German women were encouraged to meet and have children with SS officers who occasionally visited. The SS then took the children when they were born. The program supported expectant mothers and enabled them to have their children safely, secretly, and comfortably.

Himmler, the mastermind, also has an incentive system in place that was equally diabolical. A Mother’s Cross of Honor was created in three classes: bronze, silver, and gold. The bronze cross required a woman to give birth to and raise at least four children, while the highest honor, the gold cross, recognized a woman who had given birth to eight or more.

In addition, these mothers received government subsidies designed to take care of the kids. “Lucky” mothers with three and more children under ten years old got 'honorary cards' allowing them to get preferential treatment in shopping queues and discounts on their rent payments. They were also given the best meats from butcher shops and were entitled to zero-interest state-sponsored loans.

Himmler soon expanded the program to include non-German mothers. In a bizarre policy formed by Hitler in 1942, German soldiers were encouraged to socialize with native women, with the instruction that any children they produced would be given to SS. “Racially pure” women were encouraged to have one-night stands with SS officers in Lebensborn homes where they could have children in secrecy and confidentiality.

The worst part was kidnapping “Aryan children” from occupied territories.

In 1939, under Himmler’s directive, the Nazis began systematically kidnapping thousands of children who they regarded as “Aryan-looking” from other countries, mainly Poland, Yugoslavia and Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, and Norway, for the Lebensborn program. While some of these children were orphans, it has been well-documented that many were stolen from their parent's arms.

In these centers, these children were “Germanized” and forced to forget their birth parents. Those children who refused were beaten mercilessly or even sent to concentration camps for “re-education.” Ultimately these re-educated children were adopted by SS families. Himmler himself reportedly justified this brutal kidnapping when he stated that “It is our duty to take [the children] with us to remove them from their environment… either we win over any good blood that we can use for ourselves and give it a place in our people, or we destroy this blood.”

As the Nazis started losing the war, they destroyed almost all the documents on the Lebensborn program leaving an estimated 200,000 children separated from their families. Only 25,000 children were retrieved after the war and returned to their families. Some made it home, but others could not remember enough of their original families to find their way back.

It is also believed that several German families even refused to return the children they had received from the Lebensborn centers. In some cases, the children refused to return to their original families as they were brainwashed by the Nazi propaganda and considered themselves “pure” Germans for better or worse.

But for most of them, it was a long life of shame, loneliness, and ostracization by society. Many of the Lebensborn women were beaten or killed by the angry, starving public, and their children were bullied for their Nazi roots throughout their lives.

After years of enforcing the “one child rule”, China is now encouraging more births because their economy is declining. They also are no longer encouraging abortions as they once were.

 China is far from alone in experiencing declining birth rates.

It is also true in Japan, South Korea, and other countries.

Across Europe, East Asia and North America, many governments are, like Japan, introducing measures like paid parental leave, child care subsidies and direct cash transfers. According to the U.N., the number of countries deliberately targeting birthrates rose from 19 in 1986 to 55 by 2015.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/13/world/asia/birth-rate-fertility-policy-japan.html

I’m not implying that today’s Republican Party is made up of a bunch of Nazis, but consider these facts:

1)    Republicans are pushing for abortion bans because they want more children

2)   They have a strong preference for white people

3)   If you looked up the word “fascist”, you’ll discover on the list fits Donald Trump exactly

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/31/the-12-early-warning-signs-of-fascism/

In 2017, there were “very fine people of both sides”, but not all of them were chanting “Jews will not replace us”





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