In addition to my sister Kim, I dedicated my 2019 book, They’re Both Wrong: A Policy Guide For Independent Thinkers, to the “alarmists of the dominant ideologies.” It’s not that there’s not a “dime’s worth of difference” between Left and Right. There are differences. Major ones. At the same time, they’re no different on the matter of alarmism. Both sides predict crisis after crisis related to a warming planet, trade deficits, acid rain, budget deficits, smartphones, television, processed foods, housing, etc. Markets mock their relentless worrying.
Take the widely held view on the right that low birthrates are a crisis for China, the U.S., surely all of Europe, and any other advanced country where birthrates are logically falling. While members of the right claim to be for limited government, they write endlessly of looming budget shortfalls borne of fewer people being born, and fewer people subsequently working. For an ideology that claims it wants government to shrink, members of the right write with great constancy about the “crisis” of allegedly reduced government revenues.
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