Conservatives and the fertility rate

The advance of science very gradually led to the decline of religion which has greatly changed the western world. Most seriously it has affected the fertility rate.

Philip Jenkins writes (September 2023 Chronicles) “A fertility rate below 2.1—what we call a sub-replacement rate—results in a contracting population and an aging society. Briefly, European nations quite suddenly shifted from very high to very low fertility rates in what was historically the blink of an eye, and that happened during the years of religious collapse. In Italy, for instance, the twin processes coincided neatly between 1975 and 1985. Denmark and the Netherlands hit fertility rates of 1.5 or below. Rates across Catholic Europe fell to frightening (and thoroughly unsustainable) levels of 1.2.”.

“Tell me the total fertility rate of a society, and I will tell you how its religious institutions are faring, and be able to make a good guess whether it permits abortion or same-sex marriage.” Jenkins writes.

I am a conservative but I don't think bringing back Calvinist Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, or socialist secularity can save us now or is even possible.

Why aren't all conservatives also racial conservatives? If you don't conserve the races who created the cultures, you don't conserve the cultures for long, so it is not enough to be only a cultural conservative.

This tragic political mistake seems to stem from conservatives not knowing or not affirming the biological origin of social behavior, and from the blocking of the subject and making it taboo by those who benefit from integrating the world, which includes the worlds religions as well as global business people.

Conservatives need to admit our behavior, intelligence, and personalities are to a large extent heritable. Both liberals and paleoconservative's block or conceal or down play the ethnic-centered and xenophobic parts of human nature.

If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states. Then conservatives would be worthy of their name.