Imported Voters, Stranded Citizens

How the Regime's cynical electoral strategy has cheated desperate Americans and plunged us further into decline.

I live in Greenville, SC, an hour’s drive from Asheville, NC. In the days following Helene’s devastating detour through the NC mountains, the people of Greenville—though themselves struggling with power outages and damaged homes—took time and resources to help worse-off folks across the border.

Because most roads into Asheville were washed out or destroyed, our response involved using the Downtown Airport, a private landing strip that, within a day, looked like a yellow-jackets nest from a distance. Little aircraft zoomed in and out to swarm the mountains—especially hard-hit and hard-to-reach places. In other words, citizen Cessnas and private choppers made scores of sorties with emergency goods just hours after Helene dealt the mountain folks a deadly blow.

It was a stigmergic system running on compassion.

People organized via social media. Yesterday, we asked for a, b, and c. Today, we need x, y, and z. You might drop off bottled water, diapers, and wipes. Or, you might shoot $100 to a friend with a Venmo account, a truck, and a shopping list. (My friend Justin F. shopped down the mountain at WalMart. Daniel S. made runs all the way to Charleston, SC, for Starlink consoles.)

It was a Samaritan’s swarm order.

However, as with so many stories of federal involvement, FEMA would soon step in to commandeer the private Greenville runway and push aside the spontaneous ordering forces of people with local knowledge.

Is that a good thing?

We must hope FEMA is bringing in larger aircraft and thus more significant economies of scale for the rescue effort. Maybe they will succeed, though hundreds of first-person accounts by victims and volunteers alike tell of FEMA’s obstructions—blocking transfer trucks, mountain choppers, and rescue personnel on four-wheelers. FEMA set up mobile showers, but these aren’t for victims. FEMA bureaucrats rented scarce hotel rooms that homeless residents could have used.

Before anyone accuses me of being ideological at a time that demands pragmatism, I will stick to pragmatic points. I genuinely hope that the hardest hit get what they need soon. Indeed, I pray FEMA can help the victims of Helene—and fast—and that such help is a comparative net good.

I have my doubts, though.

These are some of the people currently in charge at FEMA.

It matters worse. Let’s turn to how FEMA uses scarce resources.

The Replacements

We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season. —Alejandro Mayorkas, head of DHS

FEMA’s interventions represent opportunity costs along multiple dimensions. Most of those opportunity costs are due to the most extensive, most cynical electoral strategy in modern history, which the current administration has carried out purely for the party: The Great Replacement.

Gasp! The term has been a lightning rod because the agitprop media claims The Great Replacement is a *far-right* myth. The phrase, the commentariat says, is a racist conspiracy theory by white racists afraid that their numerical supremacy is being diluted. But the commentariat is now long past the point of diminishing marginal utility when it comes to accusations of racism. And Americans—including Blacks and Hispanics—are wise to it. Native Chicagoans and New Yorkers of all races see they’re being passed over for other priorities.

What is left of the Biden Administration has senioritis at best and callousness at worst. All along, they have had one objective and are likely to achieve it.

Consider just round one of funding allocations by FEMA for the “Shelter and Services Program,” which is designed to “provide $640.9 million of available funds to enable non-federal entities to off-set allowable costs incurred for services associated with noncitizen migrant arrivals in their communities.”

*Fact-checkers* point out that such funds come from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) coffers and are only distributed by FEMA. Right, so all they did was admit that the feds redirected more than a billion dollars on border perforation—not protection. It’s okay, then, because those funds came out of a different bucket. This doesn’t help the federal case. It only proves that federal budgets are fungible and have been all along. Perhaps the Regime could have found emergency funds for hurricane season in the $16.2 billion spent on Medicaid for non-citizens or the $175 billion sent to Ukraine in the form of cash and weapons that have kept a generation of men in an unwinnable meat grinder.

So much for *fact-checkers* bless their hearts.

Now, let’s take the top ten 2024 Round One SSP grants awarded by amount. Notice two conspicuous things about these grants:

All focus on Blue states or swing states (Purple).

The Regime is using a dubious “asylum-seeker” app to facilitate flying and bussing illegal migrants under the cover of night to particular areas—at our expense.

But why these areas? They’re using local governments and non-profits to launder illegal GOTV activities.

Notice that the states with the highest outbound rates are among those with the highest grant awards.

Outbound rate is defined as the number of people moving out of a state as a share of the state's total number of movers. At the top of the list are large states like New York (64.41%), California (63.22%), New Jersey (60.41%), and Illinois (60.11%), all of which had outbound rates higher than 60%. —National Association of Realtors

Consider:

1. States like New York, California, and Illinois are losing residents (citizens) the fastest. According to the Constitution, you lose congressional seats if you lose people. Ergo, if these three states lose residents, they also lose Blue congressional seats. Team Blue will use any means to reverse this trend.
   
   The Great Replacement is designed to replace citizens fleeing these Big Blue failure zones with an army of grateful newcomers who will pledge fealty to The Party responsible for their salvation. But even if they don’t, congressional seats are determined by U.S. Census tallies of bodies, not citizens.
   
   Any bodies will do.

2. States like Georgia, Texas, and Arizona are purple states, which means that they are political swing states. Indeed, all three have experienced an influx of disaffected defectors from Blue states. Yet, many such defectors carry their old voting patterns, which means some red states are turning purple.
   
   If you can use migration policy to put your finger on the electoral scales—say, by importing thankful throngs and subsidizing their resettlement—you’ve got yet another way to rig elections, you know, in addition to 4 a.m. “secure” and completely legitimate vote dumps across multiple swing states in 2020.

   

In 2024, watchdogs have already discovered all manner of irregularities around voter registrations across multiple states. States with said watchdogs have already prompted purges of hundreds of thousands of improper registrations.

"States such as Texas and Virginia have recently conducted their own analysis of state voter rolls and found thousands of noncitizens who were registered or had voted in an election," representatives of the Fair Election Fund claim.

Still, only some states can check voter ID or demand proof of citizenship for voting. Other states refuse to look or check or demand election integrity. California just banned voter ID in all its jurisdictions. And, of course, Team Blue roundly rejected a bill that would put election security front and center (otherwise known as the SAVE Act). So, it’s become clear that The Great Replacement is designed to import immediate voters for this and future elections.

Remember, sometimes all it takes is a few thousand *votes* to win.

Carolina in My Mind

Of course, many of us have been watching all of this with horror. Despite my distaste for democracy, I understand that not only do most Americans hold the view that voting is their sacred right and duty, but such is our only recourse short of my favored approach (separation and self-determination). It’s American orthodoxy that we vote to choose our representatives and Commander in Chief. So, the process should at least be transparent and fair.

But it’s not. It’s a mess contrived by the powerful to have and keep power.

Okay, so what does this have to do with alleviating suffering in my home state?

Over the last two years, the Regime has committed billions of debt dollars to importing illegal voters and shoring up census counts. But the administration is worried FEMA can’t afford another storm despite budgeting billions to facilitate The Great Replacement. Child traffickers, criminals, terrorists, and Tren de Aragua lurk among the millions of decent, hardworking people who understandably want a better life.

There are reasonable and unreasonable immigration policies.

Today, FEMA is clogging up jetways, hotel rooms, parking lots, and roadways—all because George W. Bush never recovered politically from those calamitous Katrina optics. Today, just up the road, the private efforts of citizens, nonprofits, and companies are being obstructed as we pay for the sins of 2005—even though FEMA’s response is arguably as bad or worse this time around.

Resources are scarce. Americans are suffering. Citizenship is meaningless. And opportunity costs abound. I’m not too worried, though. The people of Western North Carolina are the heartiest Americans. They would give you the shirts off their backs if the situation were reversed. So whatever FEMA does, we’ll find a way around it.

As Frost wrote, “the best way out is always through.”