DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Ross Douthat suggests that there might, just might, be an Elephant in the Room.

He tiptoes around the subject, of course, because he is one of the Pet Conservatives at the New York Times and doesn’t want to lose his gig, as he would do if he actually dealt realistically with the Great Grey Menace.

Nevertheless this might be the first tremor of a Crustian shudder that shakes up public policy.

Africa is a problem for Europe because

1. Africans are having lots of babies. This is because (a) they don’t have the obsession with Birth Control that the First World does; (b) poor people regard babies as assets, not luxuries/inconveniences/ThreatsToGia, because they (i) become workers that increase family income or (ii) become headcount that increases welfare benefits and hence family income; and (c) that’s the way they’ve always done it and the brats aren’t dying in their first three years the way they used to, because Science. Malthus was at least partly right.
2. Once these African Babies reach marketable weight, they head north for Europe. Can’t say that I blame them.
3. European native populations are shrinking, not expanding, and the Ponzi scheme of modern welfare statism is going to come crashing down as Communism did sooner rather than later.
4. The Ruling Crust in Europe are hog-tied by their own ideology to the point where they can’t even think ‘Send ’em back’, much less actually take steps to do so. The realistic denizens of Europe are few and being actively marginalized as far-right/racist/neo-Nazi/BadThinkers, although they are growing as more of the proletariat realize that importing millions of Africans might just Turn Out Badly.
5. The Ruling Crust in Europe is also stymied by the knowledge that, if permitted to invade, these African babies will become dependable votes for the Party of Giving Out Free Stuff. They saw it work in Britain under Tony Blair, and they see no reason why it can’t work for them — except for that inconvenient Ponzi-scheme-aspect of the deal. Having a lock on driving the train doesn’t do you much good when the train hits the wall.

So — What’s a Eurocrat To Do? I don’t know. Neither do they, which is going to get very entertaining very quickly.

Perhaps if we get all of the African ‘migrants’/’refugees’/’asylum-seekers’ to wear shirts that say I Am Global Warming, something would get done.

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