G. Russell Evans
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.)
Tuesday, April 2, 2002

The clever acronym DINK appears in Pat Buchanan's best-selling book "The Death of the West." It stands for "Double Income, No Kids," meaning plenty of money for couples to live it up and no brats to tend to at five o'clock in the morning. It can also mean: Sleep in till 10:30 a.m. Saturdays, followed by a champagne lunch, lobster dinner and whatever pleasure the weekend has to offer.

The DINK lifestyle can be a shallow one, adding nothing to the propagation of the race and family line, and contributing to the decline of Western civilization. DINKs will never know the joy and pride of bringing up sons and daughters, seeing them develop into productive citizens, educated and trained in the fields that make America special, and faithful to the old folks when the time comes.

Sinister Warning

Pat Buchanan's subtitle is "How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization" – a sinister warning, backed up by irrefutable documentation and impressive and historic examples. He calls it "depiction, not prediction."

It is a depiction with statistics of Western countries with slowly dying populations and others, including the United States and Britain, tuning into Third World nations because of runaway immigration.

President Bush seemed to say as much in his inaugural address: "And sometimes our differences run so deep, it seems we share a continent but not a country."

The president should think about that instead of being so buddy-buddy with his pal, Mexican President Vicente Fox, about amnesty for 3 million Mexican illegals now in the United States.

On the other hand, there was former President Clinton in 1998, telling cheering students at Portland State University that "diversity" will make a better America when we all are minorities, i.e., a conglomeration of people with nothing in common, no history, language, culture or ancestors, drifting to world government and dilution of our sovereignty.

What's Happening?

In 1960, 94 percent of Americans could trace their ancestors to Europe. Today it is only 72 percent and, unchecked, will be 50 percent by the year 2050. Then we will be the first nation in history to turn its majority indigenous population into a minority.

California, our largest state, is already 52 percent Third World, and Texas, our second largest, is now almost 50 percent Third World and increasing rapidly. Moreover, on March 1, Texas became the first state to hold a gubernatorial debate in Spanish – 'evidence of growing political clout,' boasted the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.

Are our leaders concerned about this alarming influx? Hardly. Both liberal and conservative politicians want more immigration for more votes for their side. Industry wants it for cheap labor. Labor unions want it for more members, more dues, more political clout. Educators want it for more student grants and diversity.

None care about diluting the American heritage into a Third World culture. This is greed on all sides.

In London, ethnic minorities are 40 percent of the population and will, at the present rate, be 50 percent by the year 2010. British birthrates are dropping 3 percent per year, the lowest since records began being kept in 1924. To maintain a population, a birth rate of 2.I per woman is required.

Populations are shrinking in 17 European countries, including Italy, Germany, Spain, Russia and Portugal. As for Germany, feared for its roles in two world wars, the population will be halved by the year 2100 at the present rate, its war-making potential drastically reduced.

Why So Many DINKs?

Mr. Buchanan lists six factors that contribute to the DINK lifestyle and explain why today's culture mocks "the old idea that the good life for a woman means a husband and a houseful of kids." He says that powerful collateral forces are "pulling American women away from the maternity ward forever." Here are the six factors:

1. The new economy. Professor James Kurth of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania calls the migration of men from the farm to the factory the greatest movement of the second half of the 19th century. The greatest in the 20th century was the movement of women from the home to the office.

Industry offers pay and benefits to lure talented women who compete with men in the marketplace. Many choose careers or one-time motherhood and love the work challenge. They stay.

With women working, poor families get richer and begin to downsize. And as nations get richer, history shows, they begin to die. Meanwhile, poor families are growing. Jesus said, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." (Mt. 5:5 KJV)

2. End of the 'family wage.' Before the sweeping Civil Rights Act of 1964, brainchild of President Lyndon B. Johnson, employers paid fathers a "family wage" so wives and children wouldn't have to work – a matter of "simple justice."

The feminists had "sex" added to the protections under this Act and the rights of individuals took precedence over family requirements. As women's pay soared, men's dropped, and marriage and family size suffered. Young men earned too little for marriage and a family. Young women found independence and delayed marriage, or just didn't marry at all. Some settled for the DINK role – and the end of the "family wage" was a factor.

3. The 'population bomb' hysteria. Dire predictions by environmentalists in the 1960s and 1970s of coming world starvation because of population growth and inadequate food production caused widespread hysteria and brought on population control programs – promoted by First World elitists and mostly ignored by the Third World poor, who continued turning out big families.

Heading up another of his Chicken Little operations was former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara, the man who micromanaged the Vietnam War into disaster. This time, he was warning that population growth would cause poverty, crowding and frustration that would threaten social, economic and military stability.

And this time he was wrong again, as the poor continued to multiply.

4. Feminism. "Women's liberation" has become the rage. It would free women of their roles of wife, mother and homemaker. Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood fame declared, "The most merciful thing a large family can do to an infant member is to kill it."

But earlier feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opposed abortion as disgusting and degrading – a burden to a woman's conscience in life and to her soul in death.

A few of the modern feminists who would like to abolish marriage altogether are Gloria Steinen, Andrea Dworkin, Robin Morgan, Valerie Solanis, Nancy Lehmann, Helen Sullinger, Vivian Gornick, Christina Sommers, Catherine MacKinnon and Sheila Cronin.

MacKinnon says, "Feminism stresses the indistinguishability of prostitution, marriage and sexual harassment." Adds Cronin, "Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage."

Feminists have had successes: A tenfold increase in unmarried couples living together since 1970. Husband-wife families are now only one in four. Singles living alone are now 26 percent of the adult population.

It her book "Empty Hearts and Empty Homes," British author Katarina Runake addressed the feminists' anti-marriage rhetoric as a "Darwinism blind alley," warning, "[A]n immediate consequence of feminism is an irreversible decline in the birthrate. Nations pursue feminist policies at their own peril."

5. The popular culture puts the joys of sex far above the happiness of motherhood. Indeed, sex, career and the single woman dominate in advertising and entertainment. Marriage and family are downplayed, and the DINKs are helping.

Anthropologist Julian D. Unwin says society can choose either great energy or sexual freedom, but "it cannot do both for more than one generation." Tom Brokaw' a so-called Greatest Generation chose energy for the Depression and World War II – and gave us an America of "unrivaled pre-eminence." Baby Boomers chose "sexual freedom."

In due time, we shall see if Unwin is right!

Columnist Jenkin Lloyd Jones wrote, "Great civilizations and animal standards of behavior coexist only for short periods."

6. The collapse of the moral order. In the 1950s, divorce, "shacking up" and abortion were scandals. Today, "shacking up" is just a "relationship," half of all marriages end in divorce, and abortion is a "fallback" position and women will vote against any politician or party that threatens to take it away.

Belgian author Ron Lesthaeghe has noted the West's shift away from Christian values toward a militant "secular individualism" focused on self.

Pope John Paul VI's 1968 encyclical against contraception brought on four consequences of man's use of contraceptives, all predicted by the pope: (1) widespread infidelity and lowered morals; (2) less respect for women; (3) misuse by public authorities in ignoring moral exigencies; (4) dehumanization of the race by treating people as objects and unborn children as a disease to prevent.

These predictions came true, with the explosions of pornography, promiscuity and divorce – not unlike pagan Rome when unwanted babies were simply tossed on the dung heap. In this case, the feminists got more than they bargained for: They got selfish men who benefited from contraceptives and abortion; they used women and then tossed them aside.

Buchanan for President!

Pat Buchanan has written a powerful book, full of unshakable documentation, historic backup and well-chosen anecdotes. Critics have called him "alarmist," probably without considering the whole book, but any thoughtful reader will see, within a few pages, that Pat gets to the heart of an extremely serious crisis that is closing in on our nation while our leaders fiddle.

Pat ran for president twice. He would have made a great president, but will never be elected. Modern voters want peace, prosperity, fat pocketbooks and promises of goodies galore rather than character, wisdom and dedication. They proved that in 1996 with Bill Clinton.

Our Founding Fathers gave us a Christian nation. George Washington told us from the beginning, "[R]eligion and morality are indispensable supports." John Adams agreed: "Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people."

Pat Buchanan reminds us that Western man is casting off Christianity and now believes he can go it alone, since he knows virtually everything there is to know.

Western man knows how to prevent life, prolong life, create life and clone life. He knows how to win wars without losing a single soldier. He knows how to prevent depressions and how to guarantee prosperity through free markets and free trade. He knows how to create peace and world government.

Western man, therefore, knows it all and no longer needs God.

It Is Not Too Late

In his famous book "Witness," Whittaker Chambers wrote, "History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that became indifferent to God, and died." And Jim Nelson Black said, "Civilization arises from religion, and when the traditional religious beliefs of a nation are eroded, the nation dies."

Pat Buchanan has underscored our weaknesses. America today has leaders who can use this roadmap and lead us back. Analyst William Rusher thinks the loss of religious faith can be reversed when science acknowledges, as it is now doing, that science is incapable of answering the truly ultimate questions about the nature and origins of the universe.

Mr. Rusher is talking about the God of Creation.

A powerful surging revival of religious faith and morality can give us the kind of America our Founding Fathers constructed. It is not too late – even with the handwriting on the wall and with the lessons of history in our faces. It can be done, of course – with continuing great resolve and tireless dedication. The events of Sept. 11 gave us a start – and a resolve that we pray will continue without more catastrophes.

Meanwhile, the scripture that may fit best is the admonition given to King Solomon by the Lord one night in the 5th century B.C. when the people of Judah needed divine guidance. It is the famous and well-known verse 14 of Chapter 7 of Second Chronicles:

If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Capt. Evans is a columnist and the author of five books, including "Death Knell of the Panama Canal," a study of the Chinese takeover of the canal. Click here to read Capt. Evans' biography.

Capt. Evans' columns are distributed by the Americanism Educational League of Buena Park, Calif. He lives in Norfolk, Va.

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