Bill Clinton talks through need for large scale replacement

You will get over it. It’s called cognitive dissonance.

Good point. They are afraid of losing their white supremacy   They don’t even realize that it is too late. 23% of Americans are mixed race

I just can't understand how a real solution to prevent a declining population is opening doors to foreigners from countries where the population is also declining.

Why are populations declining? 

Seems to be a question only those right-of-center ask.

And we have Fiddler on this board openly stating that it is only outside of the home and not raising children that women can "participate in the world". Mothers who raise their children aren't participating! They're just "life support systems for a vagina"! You could have some other lady at a daycare spend her time raising your children along with a dozen others, so you can go and work at a cubicle. And then you can "participate in the world!"

It's disgusting where we're at. Men openly belittle mothers raising their children as a waste of time and/or slavery, and pretend they're the open-minded ones. Lol.

We're manufacturing cat-ladies by telling women that what men do (usually at a fairly mundane job that the man still earns satisfaction from achieving a noble purpose by providing for a family) is glorious and what women have historically done is meaningless and shallow.

Are minorities treated badly here in the US?

Couldn't we top off with a little immigration? I know we are below replacement but it's not that far.

Sure, long-run, 500-1000 years down the line, maybe we run into an issue. 

I think a great deal of the explanation is tied to the drop in teen pregnancies, and folks in their 20's delaying having kids until their 30s. Another part is economic, it's expensive to have kids, and we have long known that people have fewer kids as nations develop.

You’re assuming birth rates will stay where they are now and not continue to slide?

Korea and Japan are going to have serious issues long before 500-1000 years out.

Saying women are having kids later in life is really just reframing the question. Why? Is it all economic? And if so, do we expect that to get better?

Is it harder to live in your 20s now than it was 100 years ago? 300 years ago?

And saying birth rates drop as nations develop is true, but do we know where that ends? So is that helping at all?

That’s just a programmed response.

That’s not a long term solution.

Birth rates are collapsing pretty much everywhere.

Why is there no curiosity as to why? And what can be done to reverse course?

I agree about Korea and Japan but the US has much better demographics. It wouldn't take much to get us to replacement levels.

Why are women having kids later? Probably because they are busy doing other things like working or going to school. I think there is more emphasis put on women finding fulfillment outside of motherhood. It's not all economic. Some of it is, of course.

I have an idea its far easier today than 100 or 200 years ago, economically, which plays into why people are having fewer kids. There's two effects to consider. The fact we are wealthier explains why we have fewer kids today- we don't need them as sources of labor or income for the family. But then the other story is also a factor- the cost of living is high and people are squeezed and can't afford to start a family as easily as say someone in 70s could. Housing is a big part of that story.

Where it all ends, I don't pretend to know but I do believe immigration is part of the solution, or mitigation effort.

I know the reasons why. So what are you gonna do about them. Do you want teen pregnancy to rise?  I doubt that. Do you want to force women in their 20s to have babies give up their careers and live on the government .  Do you want shot gun weddings forcing young men to be husbands and fathers when they don’t want to?  I doubt that. Our culture is changing and there is nothing you can do about it. Women don’t want to spend their entire lives raising children.