Demographic Dangers & Declining Birth Rates, Part Four: Culture Wars, Morality, & Psychology.

At the end of <a href="https://medium.com/@peter-53649/demographic-dangers-declining-birth-rates-part-three-demonising-migrants-refugees-3e664b94de7f" rel="noopener">Part Three</a> of this series I quoted from a <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/vexing-rise-transnational-right?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_campaign=+The+New+North+Korean+Threat&utm_content=20230119&utm_term=FA+Today+-+112017" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Foreign Affairs article by Casey and Nexon</a> who pointed out the many similarities between the fascist regimes of the 1920–30’s and many of today’s right-wing groups and parties. One common theme is the adoption of right-wing narratives to “present specific outsiders (racial, ethnic, religious, or whatever) as foreign pathogens.” In his oft quoted <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">1995 essay Ur-fascism, Umberto Eco</a>, who lived through the interwar and wartime periods of the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s as a boy and young man in an Italy in thrall to Mussolini, wrote this which summarises the fascist appeal to what we might call a conservatives intolerance to ambiguity, or as Eco calls it, a fear of difference: <a href="https://peter-53649.medium.com/demographic-dangers-declining-birth-rates-part-four-culture-wars-morality-psychology-939afb7402b">Visit Now</a>