Not the Usual Immigration Article
The world is insane! I keep saying this, but nobody listens. Maybe they think I’m the crazy one. But, I’ve asked myself that question and concluded that this is unlikely. After all, I hold myself to an objective standard of sanity that works something like this; first the question, “Do you agree with the mainstream media?” I ask myself. “No.” Is my answer. And, with that, I conclude that my sanity is beyond question. This does not mean that I agree with the alternative media, either. Because I don’t. But, at least the alternative media is willing to talk about issues and scandals that the mainstream media dutifully cover up by saying nothing at all. It is their lack of coverage that allows the real dirt to go unattended. All you need to do is look at the heaping piles of sludge mounting at every corner of America to see that they have long since abandoned their ethical role as arbiters of truth, justice, and the American way. So, today, I examine the usual bullshit, beginning with immigration.
“Immigration is good!” “Immigration is bad!” That is the standard bullshit. Neither side actually says this openly, but, by the time it filters itself through the body politic, that’s how it comes out. Here’s the truth.
But first, the analogy.
If diamonds suddenly became as plentiful as dirt, both would have the same value. By carefully controlling and limiting the supply of diamonds, however, their value rises like a kite caught in a hurricane. If the flow of diamonds increased—and they easily could by simply flooding the market with these aging chunks of coal—their value would plummet. Then give your fiancé a worthless rock and see what she thinks. Because that is precisely what the diamond would be. Worthless. This is called the law of supply and demand. And this law is as deeply embedded in human nature as hate and love, forgiveness and retribution.
Immigration operates on the same idea. “Human capital” is what labor represents, and capital, regardless of its form, means money. The more human capital in a labor intensive economy, the more money for the wealthy, and the lower the wages will be for the workers. That is how the two are linked in an economy.
If you have money, lots of money, you can lobby your congressman to increase immigration, because, for you, immigrants are living, breathing stockpiles of capital.
If you work in an industry where you’re competing against immigrant labor, however, your wages and your job security will dangle by an ever diminishing thread as the competition increases.
In other words, the rich get richer and the poor tend to get poorer. That has been true throughout history, almost without exception.
The rich have connections and influence, though, so the manipulation of labor markets will never be couched in those terms. Instead, words like compassion and kindness towards the poor emigre will substitute and slogans about how America is a nation of immigrants will abound. If that fails, someone will concoct a meme with a Native America weeping a tear. Because all those interloping Europeans took their land. And progressives, being a willfully naive lot, will latch onto this idea no matter how one-dimensional and selective the argument might be. Does it matter if every other group of humans did the same exact thing, as far back as history records, including Native Americans? Of course, not. Because you can’t extort cold, hard, cash from the losers, only the winners.
This same process was used by a relatively few wealthy, powerful Europeans to help bankroll the displacement of Native Americans, and it is currently at work in the global move towards open borders.
You see, today, patriotism is a dirty word. Because it doesn’t serve the interests of globalists who view all humanity as one. One massive pool of labor, that is, and their natural resources are the spoils to be divvied up by a new class of kings and princes. This means that you must be propagandized and made to feel bad about the past, based primarily on a few drops of melanin, whether your actual ancestors ever had anything to do with slavery or colonialism or not. You are guilty! Therefore, you must pay in the form of higher taxes, a lower standard of living, crime and urban decay—and, the endless racial and religious sectarianism that result from these same policies. Yes, you must be made to feel guilty by these new potentates and emperors, CEOs and unelected bureaucrats. That’s how the game is played.
In other words, you used to be a diamond. But today, you are dirt. And tomorrow, you will be the barbarians to be kept apart from your rulers and their progeny. No longer American. No longer anybody.
Claude Hopper
“Immigration is good!” “Immigration is bad!” That is the standard bullshit. Neither side actually says this openly, but, by the time it filters itself through the body politic, that’s how it comes out. Here’s the truth.
But first, the analogy.
If diamonds suddenly became as plentiful as dirt, both would have the same value. By carefully controlling and limiting the supply of diamonds, however, their value rises like a kite caught in a hurricane. If the flow of diamonds increased—and they easily could by simply flooding the market with these aging chunks of coal—their value would plummet. Then give your fiancé a worthless rock and see what she thinks. Because that is precisely what the diamond would be. Worthless. This is called the law of supply and demand. And this law is as deeply embedded in human nature as hate and love, forgiveness and retribution.
Immigration operates on the same idea. “Human capital” is what labor represents, and capital, regardless of its form, means money. The more human capital in a labor intensive economy, the more money for the wealthy, and the lower the wages will be for the workers. That is how the two are linked in an economy.
If you have money, lots of money, you can lobby your congressman to increase immigration, because, for you, immigrants are living, breathing stockpiles of capital.
If you work in an industry where you’re competing against immigrant labor, however, your wages and your job security will dangle by an ever diminishing thread as the competition increases.
In other words, the rich get richer and the poor tend to get poorer. That has been true throughout history, almost without exception.
The rich have connections and influence, though, so the manipulation of labor markets will never be couched in those terms. Instead, words like compassion and kindness towards the poor emigre will substitute and slogans about how America is a nation of immigrants will abound. If that fails, someone will concoct a meme with a Native America weeping a tear. Because all those interloping Europeans took their land. And progressives, being a willfully naive lot, will latch onto this idea no matter how one-dimensional and selective the argument might be. Does it matter if every other group of humans did the same exact thing, as far back as history records, including Native Americans? Of course, not. Because you can’t extort cold, hard, cash from the losers, only the winners.
This same process was used by a relatively few wealthy, powerful Europeans to help bankroll the displacement of Native Americans, and it is currently at work in the global move towards open borders.
You see, today, patriotism is a dirty word. Because it doesn’t serve the interests of globalists who view all humanity as one. One massive pool of labor, that is, and their natural resources are the spoils to be divvied up by a new class of kings and princes. This means that you must be propagandized and made to feel bad about the past, based primarily on a few drops of melanin, whether your actual ancestors ever had anything to do with slavery or colonialism or not. You are guilty! Therefore, you must pay in the form of higher taxes, a lower standard of living, crime and urban decay—and, the endless racial and religious sectarianism that result from these same policies. Yes, you must be made to feel guilty by these new potentates and emperors, CEOs and unelected bureaucrats. That’s how the game is played.
In other words, you used to be a diamond. But today, you are dirt. And tomorrow, you will be the barbarians to be kept apart from your rulers and their progeny. No longer American. No longer anybody.
Claude Hopper
