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Consumer capitalism absolutely plays a major role in declining birth rates. When life becomes centered around personal gratification, lifestyle branding, and endless entertainment, the idea of having children starts to feel like a burden rather than a natural step. In a world that treats meaning as a subscription service, parenthood looks like bad ROI.

But saying «Rødt is a meme party» misses the point. Rødt is one of the few parties actually trying to confront the structural pressures that make family life impossible for most people that results from unaffordable housing, precarious work, atomization, urban sprawl, collapsing communities. You’re right that economics isn’t the only reason people aren’t having kids, but it’s the baseline. You can’t raise a family if you don’t have a place to live, a future you believe in, or time not eaten alive by work.

If anything, the consumer culture you’re talking about thrives in a neoliberal vacuum where your identity is built around what you buy, not what you build. Nordic Socialism, or something like it, is the only serious attempt to reconstruct meaning, stability, and community. Not by forcing people to have kids, but by making it possible and desirable again.

I like President Trump because even though I believe in helping everyone and sharing, I think he did some good things that helped people and made some jobs better. Sometimes it’s good to look at the nice parts of someone, even if we don’t agree on everything, because it helps us understand and be kind too!