.Membership numbers may continue to decline because
as more folks comply with more mandates to spend their income on items for their own good, less income for anything else, including dues and contributions, remain.
as more folks claim benefits from coercively-funded sources, demand for benefits through voluntarily-funded sources drops. As demand for benefits through voluntarily-funded sources drops, interest in funding these sources drops. This declining interest in funding leads to declining interest in membership.
as long as LIONS insist on trying to host parasitic entities representing coercively-funded sources, LIONS will continue to weaken as service-providers, and as a source of personal fulfillment through voluntary service. The more government folks do, the less government folks let volunteers do. Over time, volunteers spend resources complying with mandates, instead of investing resources in service opportunities, or using these resources to make grants or loans to qualified recipients. Over time, complying volunteers forget their connection to, and lose interest in, LIONS.
By the way, at what age point is there a significant membership number drop-off?
I get that LIONS Clubs flourish when folks do not turn to coercively-funded sources for help with social concerns.
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