... that narrow-minded people are trouncing progressives at population growth. And that is not good for any of us.
The Republican Party is now mostly an extremist, evangelical Christian, regional (Southern) party with racist overtones. Anyone who's seen a TV show called "18 Kids and Counting" knows about the Duggars and their anti-feminist, conservative ideology known as Quiverfull. Its viewpoint eschews all forms of birth control.
Although I am a longtime reader, I am new to Daily Kos. This is my first diary. The other day, an article in the LA Times got me thinking about demographics in another political hot spot, Israel.
The article, "A turf war heats up in Tel Aviv," by Edmund Sanders, describes what happened when ultra-Orthodox Jews moved into an upper-class secular Jewish neighborhood of Tel Aviv.
This caught my attention:
With birthrates nearly two or three times the national average, Israel's ultra-Orthodox community is expected to grow from 16% of the population to 23% by 2025, according to figures from the American-Israel Demographic Research Group.
And then there are the Arabs. According to Wikipedia:
According to forecasts, the Muslim population will grow to over 2,000,000 people, or 24-26% of the population within the next 15 years. They will also comprise 85% of the Arab population in Israeli in 2020 (up 3% from 2005)
I suspect that the educated, secular Arabs are not doing most of the reproducing.
I discuss this more fully in my blog, Today In Religion.
The looney tunes and religious fringe segment of society is growing worldwide. And unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to reverse this trend because it's rooted in religion.