So all you progressive dopers, where are all the baby lefties going to come from? You’re leaving the future to the breeding conservatives!
The Fertility Gap
Liberal politics will prove fruitless as long as liberals refuse to multiply.
The new liberals will come from conservative parents, as they always have. How the heck can teenagers rebel if they can’t believe their parents are fools? 
Well since they obviously can’t reproduce they have to keep recruiting, right?
Our equipment works fine; we just believe in birth control. Its the party of Bob Dole that can only function with Viagra. But I guess you’ll be fine til that prescription drug plan collapses. Then we’ll be the only ones ‘up at bat’, while conservative men are doing the “Ken” look. 
Other than showing that liberals are, perhaps, more sexually responsible than conservatives, I don’t know what this is supposed to prove. Political ideology is not genetic. It’s actually fairly predictable that a large percentage of new voters will have ideologies diametrically opposed to their parents. If anything, this is good news for liberals.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to, despite the fact that I can’t really identify myself as a liberal, be on the liberals’ side on this. It just means they’re more responsible with their sex lives.
My parents are UBER-LIBERAL, like hippies. I’m somewhere in between liberal and conservative (I don’t know what to compare that too, sorry). My parents are constantly trying to convince me that I shouldn’t be pro-death penalty, and I’m constantly trying to convince them to shut up about it. Parents and children rarely see eye-to-eye on politics.
~Tasha
He doesn’t need viagra, his wife just won’t put out. Honestly, I can’t blame her.
Oh yeah. Yeah, baby. Bob Dole likes that. Yeah. Give it to Bob Dole. Oh yeah. Oh. Oh baby. Bob Dole’s smackin’ that ass. Yeah. Who’s your daddy? Bob Dole’s your daddy. Oh YEAH. Bob Dole’s almost there, baby! Bob Dole’s almost there!
Mindfield, you are one sick puppy. Cite?
I am trying. Unfortunately we apparently have to resort to IVF to conceive our second child. Our first (and hopefully last!) attempt starts next week.
I dont see how this means they are more responsible. I think it just proves what a bunch of social outcasts they are. They can’t get laid–even by each other.
I guess it’s easy to say “Hey look at me! I’m abstaining! I’m responsible and making the world better!” when no one will touch you.
We’re not “abstaining” tardo. We just use birth control. Sexual responsibility != not getting any. We just know how to put a fucking condom on.
I had no idea that having children inside a committed marriage was irresponsible sexual behavior. No wonder the two sides can’t see eye to eye!
All the political jabs aside, I think this article’s argument is plausible. Most of the strongly childfree people I know of are very politically liberal. Like it or not, choosing not to have kids is basically an “alternative lifestyle” and that tends to be more accepted among liberals.
Of course, there is also the possibility of influence from liberals tending to be more accepting of abortion, birth control, and women working outside of the home.
Yes, there is teenage rebellion, but such rebellion isn’t always lifelong. I think on the whole people do tend to take after their parents’ views. I have seen other news stories that indicate this generation of teens tends to be more conservative in some ways than prior generations. I’m not sure if there’s really anything you can do about it though, if people are not inclined to have kids. I’m pretty sure that having kids just so they can be soldiers in the war against the opposing political ideology is a recipe for turning some messed up people out on society. :eek:
Yeah. I’m sick.
But you’re the one that wants a cite. 
I have three kids, so maybe that means I’m not a liberal. Dang! So much for my credibility…
Is there any other kind?
Actually, Razorette and I have two sons. Fine young men. They’re not as passionate about civil liberties and health care and education as we are, but give 'em time. They’re intelligent and in the process of becoming well-educated, and neither is hobbled by complex superstition systems, so we’re fairly certain they won’t be very conservative.
I have a suspicion that, when food gets hard to find, gasoline is a thing of the past and sunscreen SPF numbers are three digits, there will be a lot more environmental liberals than there are now.
You’ve merely replaced yourself. There’s more work to do! You need to get humping with alacrity, Razorette’s biological clock is ticking down, the viable eggs are down to a precious few! Time’s a wasting!
It’s kind of a sad idea that my child is merely a replacement for myself. The world doesn’t need another Trion.
Consider it trading up.
Hell, Kornbluth predicted this fertility gap back in the fifties.
Yeah, but that was a stupid-smart gap, not a lib-con gap. And even then the premise is stupid.
In any event the fertility gap is nonsense, for reasons already given.