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Americans Won’t Have a Country Unless They Have Sex — And Babies

If Americans do not have children, America will not remain American.

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“We’ve stopped having sex!” former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse pointed out in a recent interview.

“It is very weird. I don’t have a phone on me, but that we carry around these super devices in our pockets that have distracted us from some of the most fundamental human activities and aspirations: having a baby is a bet on the future,” he continued.

It’s not a new observation; in fact, it’s not merely an observation, it’s a warning of a civilization emergency. An emergency that has plagued the United States and other civilizations throughout history.

Teddy Roosevelt warned in 1901 that “All the problems before us in this country … are as nothing compared with the problem of the diminishing birth rate and all that it implies.” He saw low fertility among Americans as an existential threat to the continuity of the country itself.

Before Roosevelt it was Polybius, who wrote in his book Histories that Greece was suffering a self-inflicted birth rate crisis. Polybius diagnosed the cause as a cultural and moral shift.

“In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth-rate and a general decrease of the population. … For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring........

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