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[JCTarheel82]

 

[dukeman92]

 

[Ramrouser]

Perhaps if Rs didn’t continually push for policies that make it financially infeasible to support kids, gut the k-12 public education system, and restrict family planning options, more female Harris voters would have kids.

As is, Rs are bringing Idiocracy to life—an environment where the dumbest and poorest are the ones who procreate the most.

Or…,maybe your leftists leaders shouldn’t scare the bigeezous out of young lefties telling them the earth is going to end in 12 years due to climate change. Or convincing them that having babies is “bad for the planet.”

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Pretty funny that he's saying that on a show run by a career woman who is almost certainly very much into consumerism and materialism. As for loneliness, that's only something that Ingraham would know.

 

[WaynetheDrain]

Says the man that raped his own wife.

 

[uncjhodges]

Or…,maybe your leftists leaders shouldn’t scare the bigeezous out of young lefties telling them the earth is going to end in 12 years due to climate change. Or convincing them that having babies is “bad for the planet.”

People that are deciding that they don’t want to have kids are not doing it bc they are listening to “leftist leaders”. Do you really not know any young liberals?

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Yes, I'm sure that the real problem is "leftist leaders" scaring young people out of having kids, and not, you know, the ridiculous costs of childcare, healthcare, education, buying a home or renting an apartment, stagnant wages, and so on. No, the real problem is liberals scaring them out of having kids. And conservatives really believe that shit, because it's a lot easier than actually trying to deal with the real problems I mentioned.

 

[Ramrouser]

Ok so how can middle class MAGA parents manage to have children?

 

[Bobfripp]

Ok so how can middle class MAGA parents manage to have children?

They manage to have MAGA children?!

 

[SmilingJack]

Ok so how can middle class MAGA parents manage to have children?

Which/what middle class? You have to be making @$117,000 to be middle class? Have’s and have nots is where we’re headed.

https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/economy/what-is-median-income-for-upper-middle-class/

 

[ChileG]

Ok so how can middle class MAGA parents manage to have children?

Same way liberal manage to have children.
The issue isn’t that conservatives are having kids and liberals are not. It is that everyone is having fewer kids.
If you google, you can find article after article discussing why. You don’t have to guess. (Hint: Charlie Kirk is just making shit up again).

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Same way liberal manage to have children.
The issue isn’t that conservatives are having kids and liberals are not. It is that everyone is having fewer kids.
If you google, you can find article after article discussing why. You don’t have to guess. (Hint: Charlie Kirk is just making shit up again).

From an April 2025 NBC News article:

"Last month, U.S. homeowners’ median monthly payments hit an all-time high of $2,800, according to Redfin. Roughly 70% of American households can’t afford a $400,000 home, the National Association of Homebuilders found earlier this year. Yet the median sale price of houses sold in the fourth quarter last year was $420,000, census data shows."

So at least 70% of Americans can't afford a $400,000 home, but the average home price as of April 2025 was $420,000.

Also from the article:

"The median age of first-time homebuyers hit 38 last year, up from 35 in 2023 and almost a decade older than in the 1980s, when the typical homebuyer was just 29, the National Association of Realtors reported last year.

Buying a first home later in life can have long-term financial impacts, said Fairweather, noting that 38-year-old buyers will still be paying off a 30-year mortgage well into retirement. “It could mean that people are less wealthy as retirees,” she said, because home equity is a significant source of retirement savings for many households."

But yeah, the problem is that us liberals are scaring young couples out of homebuying, not that they can't actually afford to buy one in many cases.

 

[ZenMode]

Ok so how can middle class MAGA parents manage to have children?

It's what God wants and he will provide?

 

[SnoopRob]

Ok so how can middle class MAGA parents manage to have children?

This could, accidentally, be an interesting question.

I wonder if there are any studies on what is considered providing the “basics” of childhood as viewed by folks across the political spectrum. And it would be interesting, as well, if such studies could also model/sample what kind of “subsidies” parents receive in child-rearing (both governmental & personal/social) across differing groups.

 

[Healing]

I suspect younger liberals are more rational and financially responsible, and, thus, review the financial and social landscape of this country and think “I’ll be in debt forever if I have kids. Those kids will be in debt forever, too, if the rising tides, fires, drought, and famine of climate change don’t fuck’em up first.”