During the 1980's and, especially, during the 1990's and later the "multiculturalists" (who became just modern far-leftists) made a lot of false or exaggerated claims in order to justify bringing in as many foreign people into the country as possible.
Unfortunately their propaganda campaigns, which they have been running for several decades, have been so immensely successful that most people just believe those claims wholesale. Even people who aren't especially politically oriented (and might even be slightly against far-leftism) tend to believe them wholesale.
Do you know what one of these biggest lies is, that most people just believe wholesale?
That the decreasing birth rates in most western countries is some kind of looming impending catastrophe that is in dire need of a solution.
You hear this all the time. I have friends who believe it wholesale. In other words, that the birth rates in our countries is too low, and this will mean a huge looming economic crisis in the future, as people get older and there aren't enough young people to replace them, and how a healthy economy is based on constant growth, and how this is such a huge problem that it absolutely requires a solution.
Now, don't get me wrong: Sure, extremely low birth rates, especially when they continue for long enough, is bound to cause some kind of economic problems in the long run, as the amount of old people gets increasing larger and larger in proportion to the amount of working-age people, and this means that there are less and less workers to maintain a growing economy.
That's probably true.
What isn't true is the fearmongering. Sure, if low birth rates continue for long enough it will most probably cause some amount of economic downfall. However, the nation is not going to die because of such a thing. It's not like the population of a country will go extinct because of it. There are countries in this world that have existed for over a thousand years, and their populations have gone up and down many times during the centuries, and they are still there. (Maybe some countries have split into two, or merged with another country, or changed name, but a good majority of countries have existed for over a thousand years, sometimes even longer.)
Will there be a bit of economic downfall some time along the line? Sure. But countries and their populations can survive that. They have been surviving such economic crises for millenia. Maybe there will become a point when there will be a bit of scarcity and eg. free governmental services will have to be cut, and maybe even the amount of poverty will increase. That's unfortunate, but it's just part of the life of a nation. Sometimes there are ups, sometimes downs. But most nations still survive.
In fact, what the multiculturalist propaganda is saying is very wrong in another aspect: They make it sound like population growth is a necessity for economic survival... forever. Rather obviously this cannot be true, by sheer necessity. The population of a country cannot grow forever. There will become a point when the resources of the country just can't sustain that many people. An overpopulated country that currently has eg. 50 million people cannot sustain eg. 500 million people. At some point the growth will stop by necessity because the entire system will just collapse due to sheer amount of people.
Thus, unlike the multiculturalist propaganda implies, it's actually much better to curtail population growth now, rather than when the population has grown ten times larger than it currently is. And by far the best way to do this is to simply allow the population to maintain its size and even to slightly diminish naturally. In other words, the "do nothing" (about the population size) approach. Just let people do what they want to do. If the size of the population goes down a bit, then so be it. We'll just deal with the economic consequences when they come.
But why is the multiculturalist propaganda bad? Because, rather obviously, they are using it as an excuse to bring in as many foreigners into the country as possible. They are telling us that if we don't do this the country will collapse, and thus we need to bring in millions and millions of foreign nationals.
Of course it's that which will collapse the country, not the slight decrease in population due to low fertility rates. And that's why it should be opposed.
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