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Essay: The future of secular leftism is bleak (view source)
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[[File:Donald Trump Speaking in Fountain Hills.jpg|thumbnail|200px|The website Marketwatch reported concerning the aftermath of the 2016 presidential race: [[Donald Trump]]’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-win-is-causing-a-surge-in-demand-for-mental-health-services-2016-11-10 Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services], Marketwatch 2016</ref> See: [[Secular leftists and psychogenic illness]] ]]
[[File:Donald Trump Speaking in Fountain Hills.jpg|thumbnail|200px|The website Marketwatch reported concerning the aftermath of the 2016 presidential race: [[Donald Trump]]’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-win-is-causing-a-surge-in-demand-for-mental-health-services-2016-11-10 Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services], Marketwatch 2016</ref> See: [[Secular leftists and psychogenic illness]] ]]
'''Question:''' Why is the future of secular leftism bleak?
'''Question:''' Why is the future of secular leftism bleak?
Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]], who teaches at [[Birkbeck College, University of London]], specializes in the academic area of how [[demography|demographic]] changes affect religion/irreligion and politics. Kaufmann is an [[agnosticism|agnostic]].
On December 23, 2012, Kaufmann wrote:
{{cquote|I argue that 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious.
On the other hand, the secular West and East Asia has very low fertility and a rapidly aging population... In the coming decades, the developed world's demand for workers to pay its pensions and work in its service sector will soar alongside the booming supply of young people in the third world. Ergo, we can expect significant immigration to the secular West which will import religious revival on the back of ethnic change. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. The epicentre of these trends will be in immigration gateway cities like New York (a third white), Amsterdam (half Dutch), Los Angeles (28% white), and London, 45% white British.<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/eric-kaufmann/london-a-rising-island-of-religion_b_2336699.html London: A Rising Island of Religion in a Secular Sea] by Eric Kaufmann, ''Huffington Post'', 2012</ref>
<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2013/04/97-of-worlds-population-growth-is.html 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious], Tuesday, April 30, 2013</ref>}}
I saw the recent political trends in the USA related the [[culture war]] such as the Supreme Court of the United States (pro school choice, anti abortion, etc. For example, see: [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/supreme-court-school-choice-david-mcintosh Supreme Court arguments suggest bright future for parental school choice]) and that Joe Biden's agenda and presidency going nowhere. There was no way that [[Joe Manchin]] was going to back Biden's Build Back Better bill. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=905IouAtEHg Liberal MEDIA MELTS DOWN as Manchin KILLS Build Back Better]
I saw the recent political trends in the USA related the [[culture war]] such as the Supreme Court of the United States (pro school choice, anti abortion, etc. For example, see: [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/supreme-court-school-choice-david-mcintosh Supreme Court arguments suggest bright future for parental school choice]) and that Joe Biden's agenda and presidency going nowhere. There was no way that [[Joe Manchin]] was going to back Biden's Build Back Better bill. See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=905IouAtEHg Liberal MEDIA MELTS DOWN as Manchin KILLS Build Back Better]