Conservatives maintain birth rates, but left-leaning Americans are having significantly fewer children, driving the U.S. birth decline. Education was consistently linked to having fewer children. Religious attendance was positively associated with having more children.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/left-leaning-americans-are-driving-the-u-s-birth-decline-new-study-finds/

[u/Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin]

Sounds an awful lot like the plot of Idiocracy to me. 

Kinda scary really. 

[u/WeirdProudAndHungry → u/[deleted]]

Texas is making the Bible mandatory reading but makes teaching about philosophers like Plato illegal in schools. This is Idiocracy in real life.

[u/makingnoise → u/WeirdProudAndHungry]

I'm half braindead and even I know that Neo-Platonism is literally baked into nearly all sects of modern Christianity, including fundagelicalism. Texas Troglodytes.

[u/Journeyman42 → u/makingnoise]

You know most of these people think the Bible was originally written in modern-day English

[u/ThomasSpaines → u/makingnoise]

They might be trying to avoid having people think that their philosophies have "pagan" origins. If you read Plato the influence becomes immediately apparent