I used to think that the completely irrational prioritizing of third world immigrants, late or early, was because the Democrat Party and, by extension, the various “liberal” parties – lefties – across the West had become incapable of policy ideas that would make lives and nations better. Without any idea of how to improve lives, they simply buy votes with welfare, illegal immigration, and any other thoughts with which they awake in the middle of the night and use to rob working adults and nations of their future.
(That no serious opposition has emerged in decades from the right-side of the political equation showed me one of two things: they, too, are void of policy, or they are afraid of being called racists, xenophobes, etc.)
Recently I’ve disabused myself of this train of thought. It’s gone way past just buying votes to implement varying levels of authoritarianism. Even the dumbest voter now can see that third worlders add nothing positive, and much negative, to any nation in which they are invited to reside. This is just as true for BLM and long-ago arrivals as it is for current arrivals destroying the local culture and fisc here in America and across the West.
Why, then, do these governments persist, I wondered?
Easy, and the clue is above. Western governments no longer rely on policy, liberty and prosperity and those who care enough about the future to populate it for their votes. Any idiot can tell this by the utter absence of policy based on liberty, prosperity or fertility.
No current policy adheres to those ideals. Rather, it’s that our voters have become so dumb that they are perfectly willing to elect the dumbest 535 employed people in America to govern them, and then to cap it off with a senile imbecile who actually may believe that the border is secure. But then his own DOJ formally notes he’s too stupid to know what he’s doing and, by extension, to know WTF is going on. Half of America will vote for “him,” anyway, proving my point.
How else can one explain today’s Congress, than that they are incredibly stupid? One cannot. $34T in debt, crumbling infrastructure, planes falling apart in mid-air, the military losing multiple 20-yr “wars” with illiterates in sandals carrying only small arms? No intelligent person could vote for any of these people.
A Supreme Court on which resides a woman who can’t define what a woman is, and who, today, pushed back in the oral arguments on Missouri, saying that she’d worry if an “interpretation” of the First Amendment put too strong a leash on government – said leash being the entire point of the First Amendment, the entire Bill of Rights, and the Constitution?
No. There simply is no way to view Western democracies as other than appallingly stupid officeholders elected by appallingly stupid voters.
JFK legalized public sector (government) unions with EO 10988, in January, 1962, something at which even FDR had LOL’d over dinner one night. Perhaps it would have been better for the country had CIA whacked him sooner? I once thought the purpose of unionizing government workers was to provide bipartisan tax dollars to be used by Democrat campaigns – which, of course, is a major achievement, using the force of government to get your opponents to fund your campaigns against them.
But if you think about it, the only way to get an electorate this stupid is to begin in K-12 with the dumbest college cohort being admitted to a School of Ed industry with no IQ floor. Then to enshrine their stupidity in a union that disallows firing them for incompetence. An entire city’s kids may not be able to read, but they’ll be promoted from grade-to-grade-to-voting booth by utterly, appallingly stupid teachers “just doing their best.”
And they’ll vote for the local celebrity of the day in our celebrity-drenched culture. If you can explain our campaigns with any metaphor other than celebrity-worship, please show actual policy issues being discussed by people who both understand them and can articulate their value to the country. I’ll wait.
And we wind up with $34T of debt, out-of-control-inflation, $15/hr “minimum wage” to flip burgers, offshoring the jobs that once brought us prosperity and families, losing every war for decades on-end, kids who cannot read, a franchise not knowing WTF is going on… and the stupidest government that can be envisioned.
And who are the stupidest amongst us? Well, here’s a global IQ map. You figure it out.
Which is the only logical explanation as to why Western governments are all agog over the dumbest voters, throwing the most productive out of jobs (and families, housing, futures, kids…) to employ those from – well… you can read a map, right? Using idiots to elect idiots to keep idiots in power.
As Steve Sailer notes, the IQ gap between the traditional citizens who actually created Western Civilization – its tangibles and intangibles (seriously? We allow ourselves to be judged by anti-Westerners using our Western morals?), over the course of millennia, and those our politicians are bringing in to rob, rape and murder our citizens, while displacing the working citizen, job-holder, taxpayer and family… is the single most-documented finding in the history of the social sciences:
That’s the only way they can stay in power.
We’ve all heard “the blind leading the blind.” Well, today in the West, it’s the idiots using the idiots to ensure idiocy.
And idiots in power not only are dangerous – look around – they won’t remove themselves nor allow themselves to be removed via systems they run.
Perhaps our nation’s failing education system that’s indoctrinating rather than educating students is to blame. Garbage in, garbage out with no critical thinking ability would certainly cripple decision making.
So, based on this view, when did people become retarded? Hard to imagine that happening even over the last 20 years since most of the population that was alive 20 years ago is alive today.
Echo chambers reducing the quality of output by reducing the quality of information people receive seems more likely than a biological reduction in capacity---though, in fairness to you, you don't claim one way or another what is causing the stupidity, only that it is not strategic.