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Importing Enemies
The American Mind ^ | 08/30/21 | Michael Anton

Posted on 08/30/2021 12:58:00 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort

Perennial Democratic White House aide, congressman, Chicago mayor, and ambassador-in-waiting Rahm Emmanuel’s sole memorable utterance—his only candidate for Bartlett’s—is his cynical 2008 maxim that the good guys (i.e., his team) must “never let a serious crisis go to waste.” He was speaking of using the financial crisis to usher in sweeping changes to law, policy, the economy, and society that would otherwise not have been possible through ordinary democratic processes.

The same logic applies now to the Democrats’—and many Republicans’—insistence that America be flooded with Afghan “refugees.” Importing as many immigrants as possible, from cultures as alien to traditional America as possible, is the ruling class’s top priority, after protecting its own wealth and power. But since importing millions upon millions of foreigners is the primary tool by which the ruling class maintains that wealth and power—by suppressing wage growth and dividing the population—it can be hard to disaggregate these two priorities.

The parallels between the two crises are obvious. Just as ruling class hubris, incompetence, dishonesty, and greed created the financial crisis, so did a similar combination produce the mess in Afghanistan. There is no need to rehash the “higher” motives for the failure here. It is worth noting, however, that lower motives were not absent: a lot of people were making a lot of money off that war.

And now, just like thirteen years ago, our rulers want to use a crisis they created as justification to ram through what they always wanted to do anyway. Which, in this case, is to resettle a hundred or two hundred thousand (the number varies depending on who’s speaking) foreigners with no tradition of liberty—who are indeed from a culture deeply alien, even hostile to, Western civilizational norms—in your communities.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; blogpimp; michaelanton; refugees

1 posted on 08/30/2021 12:58:00 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
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To: PoliticallyShort

Both parties have been flooding the country with foreigners for 30 years.

It has been their top priority.

This just gives them an excuse to import more muslims.


2 posted on 08/30/2021 1:04:21 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PoliticallyShort
PRESIDENT TALIBIDEN
3 posted on 08/30/2021 1:12:58 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Churchill used that phrase in the 1940’s


4 posted on 08/30/2021 1:27:48 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (NUKE MECCA. ABOLISH THE DEA, IRS, AND ATF)
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To: PoliticallyShort

“Welcome Rapefugees!”

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/ive-worked-refugees-decades-europes-afghan-crime-wave-mind-21506?nopaging=1


5 posted on 08/30/2021 6:26:32 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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To: RedStateRocker

If you liked the Ethiopians you’re going to love the Afghans.


6 posted on 08/31/2021 6:20:25 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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