Once, while walking down Soi Suan Phlu in Bangkok with my then-Thai girlfriend, I came upon a team of city workers doing some street maintenance. One of them was in a tree, balancing on a large branch, barefoot, cutting down limbs with a chainsaw which then rained down on the street as motorbikes and cars casually passed underneath.
“Look at that!” I exclaimed.
“Bogati,” was her reply. “Normal.”
I shrugged my shoulders and we kept walking. I relay similar tales of culture shock in me expat memoir, “Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile.”
It occurs to my Western mind that municipal government workers ought to be given boots if they’re cutting down tree limbs over a loud, crowded street with chainsaws, but Thailand isn’t my country and Thais don’t generally care what I think about how they should live, least of all Thai bureaucrats who write municipal codes.
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In the United States, which is my own country and in which my opinion matters as a citizen — at least in theory — by law, the share of congressional seat given to any one state are in direct proportion to the state’s share of the national population. More population share equals more representation.
This seems like a simple enough arrangement in a nation of laws where citizens are given (theoretical) indirect authority over their own government.
Certain influential elements, however, don’t actually believe in democratic republicanism, despite how insistent they are rhetorically in their abiding belief in Democracy™.
For example, we have the Brandon entity’s handlers, who in 2021 revised the census protocol.
Via Fox News (emphasis added):
Immigration experts are raising the alarm about how the increasing flow of migrants illegally crossing into the U.S. may significantly impact states' representation in the House of Representatives and Electoral College.
Shortly after taking office in January 2021, President Biden signed an executive order requiring that the U.S. Census Bureau factor in all residents, including noncitizens, as part of its decennial calculation of the U.S. population. As a result, the apportionment of House seats and, therefore, electoral votes for presidential elections, could be swayed as migrants continue to pour over the southern border.
"Illegal immigration has all kinds of effects and among them is that it distorts the mechanics of democratic government," Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "Illegal immigrants aren't even supposed to be here, so their inclusion in the census count for purposes of apportionment really is outrageous."
So what the Democrat Party gets, which is really just a proxy for the permanent administrative state at this point — “left” and “right” becoming incrementally less meaningful descriptors of a U.S. political dichotomy than “establishment” and “anti-establishment,” but that’s a story for another day — is a bit of a two-fer:
- Get the illegal migrants into the country and use controlled NGO “charity” networks to distribute them strategically throughout the country (just not on Martha’s Vineyard, for God’s sake!) for census data-rigging purposes
- Eventually turn them into full-blown citizens with an executive rubber-stamping, probably doing away with the citizenship test, like assessing their basic understanding of the American system of governance or its essential principles, and all other manner of red tape to expedite the process, all in the hope that they’ll become a permanent Democrat voter out of eternal gratitude.
