How tragic that today’s Democratic Party works day and night against the sovereignty of this country. No matter the drivel that comes out of most elected Democrat politicians’ mouths, claiming they believe in secure borders, time and time again, their actions prove that they clearly do not.
In just a decade, they have gone from a party that supported walls, fencing or barriers at our southern border, and that supported e-Verify, to now supporting the delusional insanity of Sanctuary Cities and obstructing almost everything possible to secure this mostly porous border. Their most recent act of subterfuge was passing a hyper partisan resolution against President Trump’s National Emergency to secure our borders.
A simple internet search or YouTube perusal will net numerous historic videos and articles about Democratic Party leaders talking about all the problems that illegal immigration brings and breeds and then rightfully denouncing it. Chuck Schumer declared that illegal immigration was just “wrong, plain & simple.” Harry Reid spoke in a manner about illegal immigration just like President Trump, back when Democrats had common sense about the issue.
One of the most shocking turn arounds is Nancy Pelosi’s call for securing our borders in 2008 compared to a decade later, disgustingly giving accolades to mothers who smashed into our country illegally with children. She called it brave. Shame on Ms. Pelosi! She should give up her US citizenship! She doesn’t believe in borders or countries anyway.
So, that was then and this is now. During Barack Obama’s second term, he practically advocated open borders when he shockingly told US Border Patrol to basically ignore immigration law and instructed them to reinstitute the horrific and self-defeating policy of catch & release. If you combine that with his outrageous anti-constitutional mobile phone & pen DACA move, it’s ‘get ready’ for a full on “Goodnight Irene“! As one border agent Brandon Judd put it in 2016, “We might as well abolish our immigration laws all together”.
In February of 2019, two seemingly bipartisan gun control bills were brought to the floor of Congress. One, H.R. 8 required deeper background checks for private transactions. Republican critics of this bill claim it could hamper the ease of sale or loan of guns between family members, but then they added a sensible amendment to the bill: that any illegal alien caught buying a gun illegally should be immediately turned over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). What was the response of almost all Democrats? They voted overwhelmingly against that dose of common sense!
In their general ideology, an illegal alien is spared any consequences of illegally buying the gun and being in the country illegally, whereas the American citizen gets no break. At almost every juncture, today’s Democrats & Progressives now advocate almost every possible protection for the illegal alien while at the same time shafting the American citizen, especially when the two are pitted against each other. It’s repugnant and traitorous. All of this is an equally offensive slap in the face to those who immigrated here legally, following and respecting our laws. We need to respect those people because they have shown us they value and respect our sovereignty.
In day-to-day conversation, Democrats and Progressives will vehemently deny this. I have experienced this all too frequently with some of my left wing/progressive friends and acquaintances. When pointing out the cold hard facts to them and telling them they should stop voting for this or supporting it, they refuse to accept reality and usually launch into either a tirade about the President’s personality, some imaginary film noir-like scenario about a Russian colluder in a Fedora or the hackneyed old-standard: a nonsensical divisive and insipid discussion about race.
In their mind, these burglars and their cohorts are the Democrats/Progressives’ cheap labor and their future voting base. This is not to say that there isn’t also some guilt to be found in the Republican Party, because there clearly is; however it is minor compared to the Democrats. For decades, the elites in both parties have been grossly negligent about enforcing our immigration laws, allowing tens of millions of people to remain in the country illegally while repeating the tired expression Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which is really just a code word for cheap labor, and amnesty.
By now, it should be clear that Democrats and Progressives want to fundamentally transform the economics, culture and demographics of the country by allowing anyone & everyone to break into the country. They have a completely different vision of what this country should look like. Their entrenched forays into racist and identity politics go against authentic true liberal philosophy and are deeply anti-American.
It is moribund when a political party cares more about getting back into power to stay there forever, while decimating the two-party system. The Democrats and Progressives are willing to sacrifice the well-being of its own citizens for that goal. It is equally moribund that they fight against every common sense action to secure their country’s borders because of their delusional and hysterical hatred for the President.
—CP Danish, Los Angeles, CA
Thoughts from an academic populist 