Thread by @Doc_0

It's a pity we have to drop busloads of illegals into the backyards of bubbled elites to get them to give a damn about the border crisis they created - but that's absolutely where we are. Decades of appealing to their sense of duty to the American people sure as hell didn't work.

For decades, the open-borders scam artists have acted like there is zero cost to dismantling border security, therefore anyone who objects to their policies must be an unthinking racist. They could not admit there was any downside to mass migration.

Remember Barack Obama sarcastically mocking people with concerns about border security, making dimwitted jokes about digging moats and filling them with alligators? That whole attitude was based on the idea that criticism of open borders was utterly irrational.

Remember when lefty hypocrites mumbled inane garbage about how the writing on the Statue of Liberty should override all U.S. immigration law? You were downright un-American if you had any problem with their reckless open borders policies. No rational debate was possible!

Lefty media works tirelessly to conceal the human cost of illegal immigration. Reporters throw themselves on stories of illegal alien crime like soldiers in a WW2 movie throwing themselves on live hand grenades. Only fringe lunatics care about even the most heinous murders!

All of this silly B.S. was possible because the costs of migration were dumped on border states the Left hates anyway. The elites were protected from all consequences. Most of the country was kept in the dark. Open borders HAS to look like a no-brainer, so nobody THINKS about it.

The ideology behind open borders goes far beyond the crass alliance between lefties who want to replace U.S. voters and business that want cheap labor. They also hate American sovereignty, and above all, they despise the idea that elite rulers have a duty to the people.

Today's political potentates would laugh themselves sick at the notion they have a "duty" to the grubby little people, especially the "deplorables." In no sense whatsoever do they view themselves as "public servants." You don't control them - THEY use power to change YOUR life.

What better way to express that sense of elite privilege, the transcendent power of the Anointed, than dissolving national borders by fiat and scoffing at the objections of the Little People? What better way to declare your superiority to the nation and its citizens?

Citizenship itself is a limit to the power of the elites, an obstacle to their ambitions. Citizenship places responsibilities on both the citizens AND their representatives. The proletariat cannot be allowed to invoke those responsibilities by demanding border security.

If we concede the American people have a right to decide how many people cross their borders, and what conditions they must meet - as soon as we accept that citizens are allowed to reject the burdens of mass migration without being "racists" - the power dynamic changes.

There aren't many issues where the position of the American people diverges so sharply from the elite as illegal immigration - and yet, the will of the vast majority has been ignored and subverted for decades. No matter what you demand or who you vote for, the border stays open.

That's one reason the political class went bananas over building a border wall, why they dropped every bomb in their rhetorical inventory on it. Walls are physical reality. They can't be subverted as easily. They're more than just the elite pretending to care about security.

All of this open-borders lunacy depends on the vital fiction that there are no reasonable objections to it. Zero cost, nothing but dreamers and "undocumented Americans." No real value to citizenship, no nation worth defending, no duties the State must fulfill to legal citizens.

So yes, it looks like the only way to bring attention to these issues was dumping a tiny fraction of illegals - 15 minutes worth of border crossings on a slow day - into the laps of Democrat elites. It turns out it was much more than a stunt - it was a revelation.

And along the way, we're forcing Dem potentates to admit their corrupt, incompetent, degenerate one-party regimes are absolutely incapable of handling a fraction of the costs that "red" border states deal with every damn day. /end