“On November 6, the number of people booking vasectomy appointments at Planned Parenthood spiked by 1,200 percent, IUD appointments by more than 760 percent and birth control implant appointments by 350 percent… Traffic to Planned Parenthood’s webpages on tubal ligation, vasectomies and IUDs has also surged by more than 1,000 percent for each.”

Mother Jones

Post election Americans are pessimistic about the future, most pundits, philosophers, and professors agree that the outlook looks bleak.

But you don’t have to look at academia, mainstream punditry, or the sermons of mainline clerics to deduce that our destiny is dystopian. Consider the hordes of people making appointments for vasectomies and tubal ligations at Planned Parenthood.

Citizens are dejected, demoralized, and depressed to the point that they are thinking twice about bringing children into this dreadful world.

Can you blame Americans for reconsidering whether to have children, when Trump considers the existential threat of climate change a hoax? Can you blame people for not wanting to procreate when the American Dream has turned into a nightmare with home ownership out of reach? Can you blame citizens for not wanting to have offspring with wars raging in the Middle East and Ukraine that could easily ignite Armageddon? Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Trump will dance to YMCA while mushroom clouds sprout all over the world.

If I were a young man, I would get a vasectomy and seek a life partner who has a birth control implant, and we would adopt.

Happy New Year!