My family is... Not a healthy or happy one. I imagine most people know this by now. Yet, for reasons that I honestly do not understand, my parents are still together. Toxic, painful, continuously arguing, but still together...
The same cannot be said for extended family. Divorces everywhere. A number of children out of wedlock. Painful intergenerational relations on both side. Lots of "not talking". Lost of... Honestly, relationships that are far more negative than they are positive. As the black sheep "loser" of the family, I can't tell you how shit my relationship with nearly all my cousins is, right now. I could, I suppose, blame myself for that, but I really don't think it is that simple...
I actually don't think this is that uncommon, where I live. Sure, most people don't have family quite as toxic as my own, however divorce is utterly ubiquitous. Siblings not getting along is probably more common than not. And honestly, it feels like people almost expect families to behave like this - not communicating, not really talking, and generally... Not behaving like civilised adults. At least amongst the majority "white" population, in addition to the "blak" population (among whom it is most definitely even worse, lol), this is... All too common.
Thoughts? What's it like for you lot, where you live? Do you get along with your extended family? Are you close to them? I realise that I am almost certainly an outlier, where my family are fucking shit, in addition to being the "black sheep loser to end all black sheep losers", but... I'm just curious.
I like the idea that "family is the people you choose to include in it", but I am yet to find my... "One". I'm honestly yet to really find anyone. So I don't have that to have as my "core". I'm sure it's very different for those that do. Unfortunately, though, I'm not sure I will ever even find that...
So yeah. Pretty blackpilled about "family", at the moment, after mounting betrayals, I have to be honest. Would appreciate some... Alternative insights, if your life experience differs in that way.
Honestly, it’s the opposite in some states. A lot of couples are having kids, working hard, and staying off social media. I live it a town that was edging towards purple pre-lockdowns but drastically changed to red thanks to the influx of blue state transplants. The numbers and information on white population do not add up to what I’ve seen and talked about to local hospitals. Might be different in bigger areas but smaller and predominantly white towns are exploding with complete families.
I have noticed the same thing. Every time I hear ethnonats complain about how there are no people having kids, and the kids they do have are being Trans. Then I go out in my town that is one of the largest in the state (about 40k-60k depending on the time of the year), and I see kids everywhere. I hear people talking about their kids and their families. The boys I see still like cowboys and guns. The girls I see still like dolls and princesses. And that holds when I travel to everywhere except the big cities in the state (and even they arent as bad as anything I have seen out of New York or California).
It also applied when I went on my roadtrip through the Plains last year (SD, WY, CO), which is also where I learned that Covid didnt exist the second you stepped outside of anywhere the Dems controlled. Because the only two places that I saw that even gave the mildest of a damn about masks was when we went to Mt. Rushmore (and that was still pretty mild), and Estes Park, CO (which did heavily enforce). But when I was in the Dakotas and Wyoming? I straight up forgot Covid existed for a few days.
And I dont see that changing any time soon. And its why I still think the US is worth fighting for and refuse to get blackpilled. Because the second you leave a Leftist stronghold and get off the internet, they cease to exist and the America I always loved abounds.
For my families road trip, we went to S. Dakota to hike in Badlands National Park, then we went to Mt. Rushmore and drove through the Black Hills. Then we went to Cheyanne, WY because I wanted to see the Union Pacific depot and rail house (unfortunately, the rail house was closed to guest at the time), and then we went to Estes Park to hike in Rocky Mountain National Park. While the Rockies were not strict on mask (not that it mattered, we wore them anyway because of snow and cold), but Estes Park itself had damn near every place being "mask required."
Which was quite the whiplash after having gone through SD and WY where there were many places that had so little of a damn to give about mask that they didnt even bother to put a sign on the door. When I say we almost forgot Covid was a thing for a few days, I meant it.
I’m quite surprised this was still a thing in National Parks anywhere…
As shit as Aus has been, it hasn’t been enforced in places like that for literally months…
So I suppose it depends on when in the year you are both talking about, but still, seems pretty crazy to me that any sort of place like that is even attempting to enforce it, at this point, Navajo or otherwise…
See, I figured Thomas Sowell's "Cultures and Immigartion" would have a point. Immigrants don't just bring the culture of some general place, they bring the culture of a specific place, at a specific time. And voluntary migrants are different than mass migrants.
As I recall, that's a political divide, and it's a severe one. Conservative white families are having 2.1 children per household on average as I recall.
... Left leaning white families have an average of 0.1
If you want to talk about demographic replacement... that's it right there.
2.1 is sadly still barely above replacement rate, though…
Need more kiddos than that if society is even going to survive, let alone thrive, lol…
You're not wrong, but I think most of that is still the prevalence of leftist cultural narratives pushing fewer children as empowering for women, and wealth building for families, when it is the opposite.
One thing the right really needs to do is entirely re-orient it's discussion on women.
We need to point out that children are wealth-building for familes (as every population of poor people ever have shown in history), and that it's the most important, honorable, and praise-worthy thing any woman can do. We need to re-moralize motherhood.