Editor’s Note: At root, I am committed to a doctrine of Respect for Persons. To the extent that we must live with a violence-monopoly government, law enforcement agents should be trained to respect the life, liberty, and property of every person they encounter. To the extent that citizen protestors seek to exercise their right to express themselves or protest, they have a responsibility to engage peacefully or reckon with the consequences of civil disobedience. Therefore, authorities and activists alike should take all reasonable measures to stay within the bounds of morality and law. This should go without saying.
Of course, reasonable people can disagree about the justice of existing laws and the manner in which they should be changed. But adherence to any principle of reciprocal nonviolence is difficult to maintain when human beings consistently cross these lines, whether in the service of strategy or enforcement. Multiple dangerous interactions will almost certainly invite trouble—not ‘good trouble,’ but deadly trouble. This video essay is not intended as tu quoque or a partisan screed. Instead, I invite viewers to consider the issue in its totality and ask whether any descent into tit-for-tat violence is worth people on either side becoming pawns on power’s chessboard. If not, what should we do? —MB
In this video essay, I present a dark theory about the intersection of immigration policy, demographic change, and political power in America.
The Setup
Under President Obama, aggressive deportation policies (2.7+ million removals) drew little protest from the American left. Meanwhile, blue states like New York, California, and Illinois were hemorrhaging population to red states, which meant losing congressional seats in the 2020 census—seats that translate directly to electoral college votes and House representation (apportionment).
The Theory
What if the dramatic shift in border enforcement under Biden (10.8+ million encounters from 2021-2024) wasn’t just a policy change, but an integrated strategic response? Since census apportionment counts the total population—not citizens or voters—importing populations to blue states could preserve congressional seats regardless of voting eligibility.
The Players
The video essay traces funding and organizational networks through George Soros’s Open Society Foundation, John Podesta’s involvement in the Transition Integrity Project, and socialist sinophile Neville Roy Singham’s activist funding operations.
The Escalation
As Trump promises deportations, street confrontations between protesters and ICE agents intensify. My theory suggests these volatile situations are strategically orchestrated—creating martyrs, delegitimizing enforcement, and turning public opinion in crucial midterm cycles and future census counts.
The Question
Whether accurate or not, the underlying facts remain: blue states lost seats, Biden-era border enforcement dropped dramatically, millions entered and were transported to key states, and isolated political violence is escalating.
I ask readers to consider whether this represents a merely organic policy evolution or a series of calculated strategies in a partisan competition for political power.
