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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Jerry Bowyer: The Message of Scrooge and the Woke Left
Description: .If they would rather die, perhaps they had better do so and decrease the surplus population. With that quote, Ebenezer Scrooge makes perfectly clear the true political message of A Christmas Carol. Dickens was writing amidst a wave of hysteria about population growth triggered by Thomas Malfus, who argued that reproduction would exceed growth in food. Scrooge was both anti procreation and anti-marriage. Of course, Scrooge and Malfus who inspired him turned out to be wrong. His nephew, Fred, and the ghost of Christmas present turned out to be...