The Childless Left Isn’t the Problem

In 2021, Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance blamed America’s problems on the “childless left.” He singled out Vice-President Kamala Harris, transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, Senator Cory Booker and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as examples. Despite Vance’s claim, the childless left isn’t the problem.

Certainly, Harris, Buttigieg, Booker, and AOC are a part of the problem. But their contribution to America’s ills isn’t the number of children they have or don’t have (Harris has two stepchildren). Their contribution is intellectual—the ideas that they advocate. Sadly, Vance shares fundamental ideas with the political left.

The left has called for a Constitutional Amendment to end the electoral college and elect the President through a national, democratic vote. They want unlimited majority rule. On his website, Vance agrees with the of unlimited majority rule, declaring that,

We the People have the power, and it’s time we used it to fight back.

The left wants to allow sixteen-year-olds to vote. Vance concurs, but he adds a twist.

Let’s do this instead. Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of the children.

The only difference between Vance and the left is who should comprise the majority. And that is a superficial difference.

Vance and the left want the same thing: unlimited majority rule. Both want to unleash the mob. Neither tolerates dissenting views. Neither is willing to live and let live. Both want to impose their view of what is right and proper upon everyone else. The childless left isn’t the problem. The problem is the ideas advocated by Vance and the left.