The Immigration Crisis Shows Just How Much Contempt America’s Establishment Has For Democracy

The Federalist ^ | JANUARY 26, 2024 | MARK HEMINGWAY

[E. Pluribus Unum]

America’s avoidable immigration crisis is now the No. 1 concern of voters, ahead of inflation and the economy. So why is no one in D.C. interested in holding Biden accountable?

On June 17, 1953, more than a million East Germans walked off the job and launched a massive strike in protest of unfair production demands imposed by the communist government. The playwright Bertolt Brecht, who was living in East Berlin, responded by composing a poem about the Soviet-installed government’s approach to the problem, “Die Lösung” (which translates into “The Solution”):

After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

Anyway, you know things are bad in America when East Germany seems like a relevant historical analog, but here we are. Perusing the press these days, you’d think Brecht’s satirical joke about the government voting out the people was a real possibility. In fact, I’d dare say attempts to impose our rulers’ wishes on the electorate are now a prominent feature of American discourse.

The morning of the Iowa caucuses, The New York Times published a typically oblivious op-ed headlined “The Responsibility of Republican Voters,” essentially commanding them not to vote for Donald Trump. In reality, such a sentiment coming from the Times is tantamount to encouraging Republicans to support Trump, both as a result of its own sins and as a synecdoche for America’s utterly reviled journalistic establishment. Naturally, a guy the Times insists is “distinguished from the rest of the Republican candidates primarily...

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“The Immigration Crisis Shows Just How Much Contempt America’s Establishment Has For Democracy”

The Immigration Crisis Shows Just How Much Contempt America’s Establishment Has For those they consider to be Smelly Walmart shoppers

There, fixed it

[ABN 505]

The cheaters got carried away with the extent of the cheating and got caught by statistical analyses.

[Vaduz]

Check

[Eleutheria5]

They were patronuses conjured up from within the wizarding voters, to fight bogarts that looked like Donald Trump. Sadly, that’s about what actually happened.

[Bonemaker]

“Democracy” = government power held by democrats.

[Bonemaker]

“Die Lösung” (which translates into “The Solution”)”

Sounds more like the endlösung.

[Does so]

Fans of police-chase videos have a bright future when Illegals face deportation.

[Dr. Franklin]

This is right on target. The elites are registering the illegals to vote, not so the illegals can vote, but so the elites can rig and steal another presidential election and vote for the millions of illegals. As we know from 2020, the courts have ruled that fake elections are OK, and we the citizens have no "standing" to object. This is the kind of corruption addressed in the Magna Carta, "To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice." So yes, by importing new voters, (who won't be permitted to actually vote themselves), the government has declared its lack of confidence in the people to "reelect" them to office