Nevertheless, for selfish political aims and in furtherance of a fantasy, Democrats presently in control of the emigration apparatus are determined to flood the country with illiterate, uneducated, unskilled, culturally alien, politically benighted, often religiously intolerant, aliens whom they believe will overwhelmingly vote to expand the welfare state as they vote Democrat.
The left, of course, does not consider its fantastical vision to be a monstrous chimera but a utopia. The left does not consider that aliens swallowed in these huge gulps will prove culturally indigestible. Why?
They do not believe that there are practical limits on the capacity of the welfare state to improve every individual's life regardless of his individual capacity, virtue, or work ethic. They are oblivious to the unintended consequences of their good intentions. To cure problems they create with government intervention by investing in more socialism, thus generating more unintended consequences and, not incidentally, generating more Democrat voters.
All this comes from the statist's unshakable conviction in the power of government. This is the siren of today's darling of the left, Elizabeth Warren. The convictions of leftists respecting either immigration or welfarism are not liable to reason. All debate will be shut down by shouts of racism. The race card provides Democrats with a tactic that reinforce their self-righteousness, fills their purses, advance their careers, and grants them political power. Appeals to patriotism fall on deaf ears. To argue for fiscal sanity is pointless. Even pleas of national security concerns from terrorists infiltrating the border avail nothing.
Nathan Bedford's first Maxim of American politics: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.
Diversity is not our strength but might well prove our national Achilles heel.
Worse, is there anything in the administration of Barack Obama or the history of law enforcement as inflicted on us by Attorney General Eric Holder which gives the slightest support for the idea that a Caucasian minority will be treated with the same due process with which Republican administrations of recent vintage have treated minorities of color? Is there anything in the history of Africa which would lead one to that belief? Is there anything in the contemporaneous history of various councils in Great Britain which would lead one to that belief? Is there anything in the matter of Sweden's and France's handling of Muslim riots which give support to that idea? Is there anything on the horizon in American politics which leads one to believe that African-Americans will not continue to vote their race while whites, to a much larger percentage, vote without regard to their race? Is there anything under the circumstances which leads one to believe that we are not on course for a Balkanization in fact if not de jure?
Until conservatives can find a way to break through race politics-and I do not mean by pandering-the way forward remains unclear.
