The Steyn Article

I've been meaning to comment on the Mark Steyn Op-Ed "It's the demography, stupid" is for a long time (the page has been open in Firefox for a week now.) but it looks like i won't get around to it, so I guess I'll just post the link. James Lileks comments on it are here.

While I think Steyn overstates his case by a lot, mostly in not counting the positive value of immigration (buying, rather than building Westerners) and longer lives for a lot of people (who will be disproportionately our best and brightest).

Now that I think about it, he also overestimates (IMHO) the importance of population. There is really no reason to think that the asymmetries currently in existence will disappear. Still a society that can't sustain itself (not true of America but true in Europe and Japan) is not healthy. Curiously unmentioned are payroll taxes.

Another random thought: the similarities to our current problems and late 19th century Bolshevism are eerie.