Jerry Bowyer: The Message of Scrooge and the Woke Left

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

.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 right.

But the lessons from A Christmas Carol ought to give us strength today as well, as we press back against a message of outright hostility to family so prevalent among the woke left.

There is no such thing as surplus population.

God bless us everyone.

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