There’s something that’s been on my mind, and seeing the way things are playing out now, I figure that I’ll go ahead and say something, even if just so a few years down the road, I can say I did.
To get started, I’ll say that if I didn’t live in the United States, but instead lived in some shithole country where most people don’t have running water, I’d want to come here. And if I were to hear that even the poorest American lived in a way that most kings would have envied just a century ago, I’d probably do anything to get here.
It’s because of this that I don’t fault a person for wanting to emigrate to my own country.
However, the problems arise when you consider that I’d be far from the only one who would possess such a desire. And what’s more, few of the people who would set out on such a trip would possess the wisdom needed to not bring their culture with them, particularly the elements of their culture that brought about the problems that transformed their previous societies into the shitholes that they escaped from.
The fact is, we live in a reality that does not ignore the principle of cause and effect. If an established population is threatened with displacement by unchecked, unnaturalized immigration, the expected outcome is conflict, whatever the intentions of those who initially welcomed them.
While it’s easy to diminish concerns as being mere intolerance toward those who would terk er jerbs, this is a mischaracterization of the reality of the matter, which is that immigrants don’t take jobs, large corporations give them jobs, often with motivations that are exploitative.
The main reason why large corporations are gung-ho over illegal immigration is because undocumented migrants are easy to exploit for cheap labor, and if there is more competition on the job market with more people willing to do the same work for less, then it’s a job market that favors employers who stand to save immense amounts of money on wages. And if they get to virtue signal about diversity while they’re at it, they can also benefit from the positive publicity that comes with that.
But there’s more to the problem, and this becomes apparent when you see that out of all the migrants that we see pouring over the border, almost every single one of them is a fighting-age male. It doesn’t take a PhD anthropologist to understand that humans are sexual creatures. And it’s easy for anyone to understand that males are more fulfilled when they have a sexual outlet. When that sexual outlet is denied to them, they tend to become resentful, and blame their host society, which they see as having failed them (look at the incel community for a prominent example).
It’s because of this that a fundamental element for a stable and peaceful society is marriage, particularly monogamous marriage. It’s through this that males get a sexual outlet, but also from which they derive a sense of purpose, knowing that they are working for people who count on them. Knowing this, it’s understandable why many of the immigrants, particularly those bound for Europe, come from societies where polygamy is accepted, which usually hugely favors high-status males. What their own societies failed to deliver them, they’ll take from the host population.
In consideration of all this, it should be easy to see why in a society where men outnumber women, crime rates tend to be significantly higher, as men turn to increasingly desperate means to attain what is of limited availability, in some cases lashing out at a society that they see as having failed them.
As these trends and others play out, it’s easy to see why people seem to be blaming the immigrants themselves for these trends. It’s because of this that I suspect that people are going to turn more toward the right on the political spectrum. If the left caused this immigration crisis, and they did, then people are going to blame the left.
But my concern isn’t that people would simply turn more to the right, as they have been. My concern is that, as they do so, they are going to turn to extremes. And considering the fact that the left is dismissing any opposition out of hand as illegitimate, the people who are voicing their concerns are going to feel more like they are not being represented by the political establishment, and as they see this, they’re just going to turn more towards extremes.
In order for democracy to work, there needs to be compromise, which isn’t happening because both sides are demanding that only their own policy is furthered, and not that of the other side. Worsening matters is the fact that the two dominant political parties don’t even view one another as legitimate. The right sees the Biden administration as having cheated to attain power, and they see the left as being party to it. The left sees MAGA as being a bunch of political extremists, rather than a consequence of conservatives being ignored. It doesn’t seem to me that either side is willing to view their opponents as legitimate, or even listen to one another.
It’s because of this that the moment that the left seized the executive branch for themselves, they’ve decided to open the borders right up, consequences be damned, for no other reason than because this is the most extreme possible expression of their own position on illegal immigration.
The consequences are easy to find on X (formerly Twitter), where it’s easy to find video of immigrants pouring across the border in immense numbers. And because the consequences are easy to present to anyone in the connected world, to change someone’s mind on this matter is trivial.
Now, let’s get on to what I’m afraid is about to happen. If you thought that racism and intolerance were bad at the time of the Civil War and the two World Wars, things are about to explode, not just in the United States, but also in Europe. While one might imagine that this could be staved off until right wing leadership assumes power, the way things are looking, it might begin before that happens. If you’re on the left side of the political spectrum, then when this happens, you can go ahead and admire your handiwork, it’s so obvious what was going to happen as a result of your policy positions that it’s hard to imagine that this was not what you wanted from the start.
As for what you should do, let’s start with what would be useful to the most people: do not engage in violence, get away from it. If you live in a city, get out of it. The sooner, the better. You’ve already seen violence, you’re about to see a lot more.
If you’re interested in living the American dream (whatever that means), the getting is probably not going to get any better than it is now for a long time.
Having said that, there’s probably nothing that you can do to be unaffected by the coming crisis. Unless you’re phenomenally wealthy, in which case, you probably somehow played a role in bringing it about. Let’s us know whether it was worth it.
To paraphrase a popular Japanese expression, I don’t have a crystal ball, but I don’t need one to see what happens next. While I wish that the character in the anime screencap above was right, every indication that I’ve seen is that the western world is headed toward a dark place, and for that to be averted, both major political parties need to demonstrate the clarity that they’ve consistently failed to. But at this point, they can both be expected to blame each other for a crisis that they’ve both played a role in cultivating.
If it’s a white pill you want, consider the fact that conservatism is currently winning the culture war. Perhaps as conservatives regain influence, they’ll heed more moderate voices, rather than take things to extremes. If so, they’ll certainly have proven themselves more worthy than the deviant shrieking lunatics who have been propped up, lately.
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Hello!
You make some excellent points in your post. As a female who chooses to be alone, I have been watching this trend with concern.
The Social Contract theory says that humans will accept some degree of control in exchange for safety and other benefits. Given the changes I’ve witnessed, it makes me wonder if those in control are pushing certain aspects in such a way as to “break” this contract…leading to the situation you describe.
It reminds me of the old curse “may you live in interesting times.”