Democracy and birth rates
Steve Sailer writes about how minority birth rates can undermine stable democracies:
Except that there already was democracy in Lebanon from 1943 to 1975, and it broke down because the demography changed. The Christians had been the richest and biggest group in 1943, followed by the Sunnis, so the Christians had the most power and the Sunnis the second position. Life was nice - Beirut was a tourist town. But the backward Shi'ites were fast growing, as were Walid Jumblatt's Druze, and they both wanted more power. Then the Palestinians showed up, having gotten kicked out of Jordan by King Hussein. And so a decade and a half of civil war started in 1975.
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The Enemy of My Enemy is Dead
posted by Adam Lawson @ 10:33 AM
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Hello? Is anybody in America, particularly in the pro-invasion wing of the GOP, reading this?
Unfortunately, I don't think that anyone in the pro-invasion wing of the GOP cares about what happens in the real world. Neocons seem to believe that if you ignore the real world for long enough it will eventually go away.
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