Anti-proge influencers preaching traditional family values remain childless: hypocrisy or symptom?
The list of anti-proge commentators is extensive, ranging from libertarian economists to cultural YouTubers. Most are in their thirties and, according to a debate with hundreds of responses, lack offspring. This paradox is significant: these are the same voices decrying the birth rate crisis and defending traditional values. Why do they not trinc their own advice?
The economic factor: vital insecurity
A recurring argument points to the job precariousness of these content creators. Most live on variable incomes without fixed contracts or stability. "If you don't know where you're going to put the egg, and your income changes month to month, you don't have children," summarizes an analysis. Many Spanish millennials, including these influencers, have fared economically worse than previous generations. The lack of stable work, skyrocketing rents, and inability to access decent housing make having children a luxury they cannot afford, despite clamoring against gender ideology.
Hedonism and lifestyle
Another current holds that these characters live comfortably and do not wish to sacrifice their standard of living. Hedonism, the search for immediate pleasure, and the antiestéticar of losing freedom are universal barriers to parenthood, without ideological bias. "In the West, people do not have children because they live very well and do not want to harm their lifestyle," it is argued. Anti-proge figures are no exception: many enjoy travel, dinners, and an unbound agenda, incompatible with diapers and school schedules.
Ideological contradiction
The sharpest criticism highlights the inconsistency: if they so strongly defend the traditional family, why do they not form one? They are accused of being "the gardener's dog, who neither eats nor lets others eat." Some analysts believe they have simply tapped into a market niche: they detected a demand for reactionary content and exploit it without needing to apply in their private lives what they preach. Others add that the right is not monolithic: within the anti-proge spectrum, there are ultra-liberals for whom family matters little; they are only interested in the minimal state and deregulation.
The suspicion of sensual orientation
The debate also brushes, with greater or lesser elegance, at the sensual orientation of some of these influencers. It is mentioned that several are openly gai and that, therefore, biological reproduction is more complex for them. Although homophobic criticism should not be reproduced, it is a fact that parenthood among same-sens couples requires processes such as surrogate gestation or adoption, options not everyone is willing to face.
A general crisis, not ideological
Some relativize the paradox: the decline in birth rates is a global phenomenon affecting all ideological groups. Available data indicate that the fertility rate in Spain hovers around 1.2 children per woman, well below generational replacement. In this context, a handful of influencers not having children is merely a reflection of a structural trend. "It would be consistent not to complain that other proge do not have children," one participant ironically remarks.
The question remains open: if those who bellow the most against demographic decline do not have children, who will? Meanwhile, the list of names continues to grow and the statistics, without compassion.
Summary of a discussion on Burbuja.info - Foro de economía, actualidad y política., translated from Spanish and reviewed before publication.
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