3 Reasons Polygamy will be Legal in Most Countries by 2050.
The tides are turning for polygamy.
In a recent article analyzing the new Gallup data trends, I showed that acceptance of polygamy (marriage to multiple concurrent spouses) is roughly thirty years behind public acceptance of same-sex marriage in the US.
But there are other aspects to the bigger picture that I intentionally avoided because I didn’t want to go off on any sort of tangent.
Today, I want to help spell out that bigger picture.
Here are three huge reasons why polygamy will not only be morally acceptable, but legal in most countries by 2050.
- Moral Acceptability Trends
The Overton Window is a concept that measures the middle-line or middle ground in politics.
One way that we predict future political policy shifts is by identifying political and cultural trends. Politics is downstream of culture. As the Overton Window shifts with culture, and things that were once radical become acceptable, politics usually catches up shortly thereafter.
Until as recently as 1987, homosexuality/same-sex attraction was still considered a form of mental disorder according to the Volume III of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III).
This was downgraded in the 1987 DSM-III-R to “distress over one’s sexual orientation”, which remained as such in the 1994 DSM-IV and 2000 DSM-IV-TR, until the 2013-current DSM-V in which all diagnostic categories linked to sexual orientation have been completely removed, after which point same-sex marriage was legalized in most Western countries.
In other words, anyone in their forties or older, in the West, has in their lifetime seen the concept of legal same-sex marriage go from unthinkable to radical to acceptable to becoming standard fare political policy.
The Overton window on same-sex marriage has shifted, and shifted to the point that is has almost become considered radical to still be against the idea.
Likewise, Gallup Poll statistical data on the perception of polygamy shows that while only 5% of US adults found it morally acceptable in 2006, that number is now up to 23% in 2022–2023, which is precisely where support for same-sex marriage was in the early 90s.
This is primarily due to four main reasons.
Firstly, because the LGBTQ+ movement has grown to include all sorts of sexual desires and many aspects of the original free-love movement of the 60s, including pansexuality and polyamory. Legal polygamy is seen in this context as win for progressive values; you can be in a committed long-term relationship with multiple people at the same time.
Secondly, the legalization of same-sex marriage has destroyed the one-man-one-woman-monogamy-only idea of marriage, in the same way that no-fault divorce destroyed the idea that marriage was permanent in the 60s and 70s.
Thirdly, the shift away from institutional religion and religious frameworks towards non-denominational religion and individual spirituality has uprooted/altered perceptions on many entrenched religious traditions, such as one-man-one-woman-monogamy-only marriage (particularly when people begin reading holy books for themselves — like the Bible, the Torah and the Qur’an — and find polygamy upheld as a normal marital option in all of them).
Fourthly, the increasing appearance of non-traditional family structures, including polygamy, in Hollywood movies and television, has further shifted cultural perceptions towards normalization of polygamy as valid, particularly among children of single mothers or broken families who aren’t so boxed in to the idea of two parents only.
Polygamy is fast becoming what one might term trendy-radical, and, well, we know what comes next.
2. Demographic Trends
The basic replacement birthrate of any nation for continued economic stability with continued growth and prosperity is 2.1 children for every 2 adults.
This allows the population to replace themselves every generation without the need for immigration while allowing for other factors such as premature death, sterility, gender discrepancies, etc.
Once a nation’s fertility rate drops below 1.7 children per woman (the current birthrate of the US, China, Brazil and Australia), it falls into what is known as the danger zone. Once a nation drops below 1.3 (such as Italy, Spain, Ukraine and Japan), it has been suggested that the nation will likely never recover.
As of 2021, most Western nations now have a birthrate between 1.2 and 1.7 children per 2 adults, with certain smaller Asian countries like South Korea (0.9), Singapore (1.1) and Hong Kong (1.1) at the very bottom of the worldwide fertility pool.
Understanding these trends are vital in understanding the role shifting demographics will play in the cultural and political shifts of the next few generations.
From an ethnic standpoint, Sub-Saharan African nations (in several of which polygamy is already legal) dominate the worldwide fertility charts with rates between 3.5 and 7 children per 2 adults, meaning that African populations are expected to boom over the next several decades while other worldwide populations dwindle and die out.
However, national statistics, especially in very ethnically mixed nations, are not all they appear at first glance.
For example, France (1.9) appears to boast the highest fertility rate in all of Europe, but upon further investigation, the native French population only has a fertility rate around 1.2–1.3 children per couple, while the Arab and African Muslim population of France (despite only being between 7–18% of the population) has a fertility rate between 6–8.1 children per couple.
In plain terms, unless the native French people start having way more children and somehow separate themselves from the growing Muslim population, they will be demographically replaced and extinguished as a people in their own country. France will be a majority-Muslim nation as soon as 2050.
Islam, which broadly accepts polygamy up to 4 wives based on the Qur’anic text, is the fastest growing religion in the world, and will be the largest major religion in the world by 2060, based on nothing more than current demographic fertility trends.
Any major catastrophic wars or health crises in the West which might further stagnate their growth or reduce current fertility rates will only speed this process up.
As both African tribal spiritualism and Islam (generally) allow/encourage strong men to have multiple wives and many children, these largest growing ethnic and religious groups will definitely shape culture and therefore politics worldwide in a pro-polygamy direction.
3. Red Pill Trends
The “Red Pill” or “Truther” movement, which ostensibly began with the moon landings, gained some traction with 9/11 and downright exploded with Trump, QAnon and the “global health situation” of 2019, is only continuing to gain traction in the West.
Whether you want to call them conspiracy theorists or mainstream media skeptics or truthers, they aren’t going away. Their numbers are growing.
And within this growing movement appears to come a high correlation to traditionalism, homesteading, homeschooling, nationalism, gun advocacy and prepping, all things generally associated more with the political right-wing.
In fact, some are positing that, besides the popular “election fraud” theory, the only reason Biden was elected at all is because many of the US right-wing voting base have completely lost faith in the two-party system, believing the whole thing to be rigged and the politicians played by actors, and have stopped voting altogether.
Whether they be libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, Christian nationalists, original constitutionalists or completely apolitical, they all seem to agree that big government is more or less evil — especially the UN’s “New World Order”, the British Crown and the Vatican — and that the future is small and private; bitcoin or barter.
As most of these people move away from “rigid” contemporary systems, seeking “truth”, they naturally aver anything being pushed by groups such as the UN and WHO in favor of things that appear to be more natural in the world.
As the Vatican has always staunchly opposed polygamy (Rome being the first empire in recorded history to criminalize it for the slave class, thereby preventing them from gain demographic power over the ruling class), and the UN (which has a depopulation agenda) is currently very vocally against polygamy, claiming that it disempowers women, any group naturally skeptical of the agendas of such behemoth institutions will become increasingly pro-polygamy in their opinions.
Furthermore, as prominent truther, Crrow Triplehorn of Crrow777, states, “there is no lie in nature”. Most animals in nature are by default polygamous. Females will group in packs, harems, families, etc, around the strongest male available. Monogamy, as we understand it, is unnatural in animal kingdom.
Many of the growing movement of truthers working in small tribes and communities to build an alternative to the current system, will allow and/or promote polygamy because it fundamentally opposes the feminism currently predominant in the mainstream West.
And this is all only going to increase.
The future is polygamous.
