Immigration as a Weapon ｜ 1⧸11⧸24
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Summary
Progressives are using illegal immigration as a political weapon to destroy their opposition and transform the United States. The border crisis isn t a crisis at all, it s a political offensive unfolding exactly as progressives intended. And it s working class Americans who are forced to compete with foreign labor.
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Two, lower than the average temperature in Montana in January.
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But the New York Congresswoman's solution seems to be conventional wisdom among most liberals now.
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Establishment Democrats know that they at least need to pay lip service to the idea of border security,
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but incompetent and entitled climbers like AOC feel no compulsion to hide the ball.
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Progressives are using illegal immigration as a political weapon to destroy their opposition and transform the United States.
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It's a political offensive unfolding exactly as progressives intended.
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There was a time when the left pretended to care about the working class.
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It was well understood that immigration was a tool that big business could use to undermine organized labor and drive down wages.
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Back in 2015, Senator Bernie Sanders used to refer to open borders as a Koch brothers proposal that would make every American poor and destroy the nation.
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I mean, that's a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States.
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But it would make a lot of global poor richer, wouldn't it?
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Then you're doing away with the concept of a nation state.
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Now, Bernie's a little confused about calling this proposal right-wing, and he's certainly sold out since then,
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but he was right about the effects of this kind of policy at the time.
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Americans who are forced to compete with foreign labor don't only see their opportunities dwindle and their earnings fall,
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but they also have to contend with the flood of new consumers in every other economic market.
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Immigration drives up the cost of housing, health care, and education,
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particularly in the working-class neighborhoods where these new laborers tend to settle.
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Open borders also encourage drug crime, gang violence, and human trafficking
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that disproportionately impacts the communities that Democrats claim to protect.
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But none of this matters to the modern left, because illegal immigration is too valuable as a weapon against its enemies.
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The Democrats may be big fans of cultural Marxism, but they left their pretensions of fighting big business behind.
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The left is rather pleased with the way that large corporations
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zealously enforce progressive social dogma in return for cheap labor and regulatory capture.
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Woke Capital has discovered that using government regulations to eliminate its opposition
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is far more advantageous than competing in any kind of free market,
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so it sides with the party that will keep labor costs low and smaller companies buried in red tape.
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Democrats have also discovered that the tendency of large corporations to erode communities
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and removes opposition to the progressive domination of social institutions.
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When the government attempts to consolidate power,
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its two major barriers are regional autonomy and loyalty to competing social institutions.
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People with a strong sense of community and identity
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tend to rely heavily on their families, friends, churches, and civic organizations, not the government.
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For the state to grow, it must take over tasks like education or care for the elderly
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Communities can stay loyal to their previous traditions and values
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but individuals deprived of these support systems must bend the knee to the state.
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When the in-laws decide that, actually, they will stay for dinner.
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A strong middle-class population with the ability to own their own business and homes
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can also resist the dictates of politicians who enforce their policies through large employers
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and the financial instability created by renting and wage labor.
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These financially secure families also have a nasty habit of building that kind of generational wealth
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that funds those churches and community organizations that contend with the government for loyalty.
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A government that is looking to consolidate power and regularly impose its will on the populace
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needs to find a way to dismantle its independent middle class
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while ensuring the support of a more dependent and less established population.
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High and low versus middle is a classic political strategy used by rulers
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who need to remove the resistance that comes from an established population.
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Victory in politics comes from rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies.
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And if you can reward your friends by punishing your enemies, so much the better.
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By importing a dependent client class of cheap laborers,
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the left ensures the support of powerful corporations while undermining the stability of established
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As the independent retailer gives way to Walmart and Amazon,
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the competing social organizations that once helped communities resist the advance of government power
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Taxes and regulations eventually drain the remaining wealth out of the kulaks,
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which can be redistributed through government programs to the dependent newcomers
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who are now deeply enthralled to a leviathan government they can't hope to oppose.
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where the generational electoral advantage secured by the side that imported the new dependent class
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The left is more than happy to change its position on labor, the working class,
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big business, and open borders if that means securing power
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and advancing a progressive social agenda forever.
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Illegal immigration isn't a problem for Democrats to solve,
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but a weapon with which they can dismantle the opposition and secure a permanent electoral advantage.
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The GOP has consistently proven itself to be incapable of taking meaningful action to stop this process.
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One can debate whether to attribute that failure to incompetence or malice,
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but what cannot be debated is that the right is running out of time to solve a problem
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that could permanently end its ability to resist the relentless march of the progressive total state.
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and discovered that there was a development there that was exploding in size
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and that the overwhelming percentage of residents were Spanish-speaking non-citizens.
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and the developer estimates that 35,000 people already live there,
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though local officials say that it could be twice that number.
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Either way, it will be hundreds of thousands of people living there in just a few years if nothing's done.
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The U.S. government has already opened our borders and given illegal immigrants the ability
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not just to buy land here, but to also finance the purchase of it.
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The government has encountered at least 8 million illegals at the border since Biden's inauguration,
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and if current trends continue, it'll be 10 million by the end of his first term.
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