Mark Steyn links to writers belatedly discovering what he has long written about, namely, the birth dearth in developed countries spells looming disaster for those nations. Countries under review in his post: Japan and Canada, with a glance at European countries. Steyn concludes:
The transformation of developed societies - either into old folks' homes (like Japan) or semi-Islamized dystopias (like Amsterdam, Brussels, etc) - will lead, in fact, to emigration. A young German or Japanese circa 2040 will have no reason whatsoever to stay in his native land and have most of his income confiscated in a vain attempt to prop up an unsustainable geriatric welfare system. So many will leave. Where will they go? At one time the obvious answer would have been America - but Good King Barack seems determined to saddle us with the same unaffordable entitlements that have scuttled the rest of the west.
Me: "Good King Barack"? - I hadn't heard that terminology before. Problem is, the fairy tale ending will be a dystopia and we'll need (for reality's sake) to drop the "good" and substitute something else. Fairy tale? I used the wrong terminology. We're now in a developing theatre-of-the-absurd nightmare from which there may be no waking. Scary.