One of the elements of the continuing Marxist drive to undermine and de-legitimize the United States is to supplant citizenship with “residency”.
In this way, large groups of foreign nationals hostile to American norms can be legitmized themselves, with the ultimate goal of allowing them to gain voting rights over the Americans.
There are already many drives to allow “resident” voting in local elections for school boards etc; this is of course just the first step.
Eventual crushing of Naturalization as a requirement is the goal. Undoubtedly, a stacked Supreme Court will render a decision that “naturalization” is an “un-Constitutional Burden” and “un-Democratic”.
To rule the Americans and confiscate their wealth and power is the plan.
You are correct - silly as this is, there is a method to the madness. The left knows exactly what it is doing - trying to undermine the concept of nationhood and citizenship; trying to overburden economies with unsustainable debt; trying to buy-off potential corporate opposition through sweetheart deals and special legislation; trying to control educational and media systems - and hence thought; trying to demonize and marginalize all opposition, largely through ridicule; and all for the goal of world government.
I remember shortly after "W" was first elected that there was a lengthy piece in my local newspaper which was surprisingly frank about the world-government agenda and how Bush was out-of-step with it and hence a pariah to the European one-world elites. This was when all the talk of Bush being "unilateral" commenced.