Demography is Destiny
By Ann Coulter
AnnCoulter.com
Liberals brag about having won the hearts and
minds of America, as if, through logic and
argument, they've persuaded people to accept
their bankrupt European socialist ideas.
Democrats haven't changed anyone's mind. They
changed the people.
More white people voted for Mitt Romney this
year than voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Barack Obama lost white voters by 20 points --
the widest margin since 1984.
But in 1980, whites were 88 percent of the
electorate. In 2012, they were 72 percent of the
electorate. Not only that, but the non-white
electorate is far more Democratic than it was in
1980.
If the same country that voted in 1980 had voted
in 2012, Romney would have won a bigger
landslide than Reagan did.
Most Americans don't realize that, decades ago,
the Democrats instituted a long-term plan to
gradually turn the United States into a Third
World nation. The country would become poorer
and less free, but Democrats would have an
unbeatable majority!
Under Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration act, our
immigration policy changed from one that
replicated the existing ethnic population to one
that strictly favored unskilled immigrants from
the Third World. Since 1968, 85 percent of legal
immigrants have come from what is
euphemistically called "developing countries."
We can't admit computer scientists from Spain
fleeing their failing socialist nation because
we have to make room for a recent Senegalese
immigrant's brother-in-law with no skills but
great needs.
Jonas Salk's parents would be unable to
immigrate to America today. But the good news
is: Rich liberals and soulless businessmen have
no trouble finding cheap busboys, gardeners and
nannies! (Whom they underpay, requiring
taxpayers to make up the difference.)
If yuppies had to compete with well-educated
European immigrants, they might be a little less
enlightened on the immigration question. As it
is, only unskilled workers, mostly blacks and
Latinos, are harmed by our immigration policies.
Because recent immigrants have no skills,
they arrive in dire need of government
assistance. Their desperation has been an
enormous boon to the Democratic Party.
Thirty-nine percent of native households receive
some form of government assistance. By contrast,
57 percent of immigrant households -- legal
immigrants -- get government assistance. We
can't do anything about the native population,
but why on Earth is America taking in immigrants
who require taxpayer support?
If you come to America and immediately go on
welfare, by definition, you are not a desirable
immigrant. Except as a voter for the Democratic
Party.
In the last 40 years, California's non-Hispanic
white population has been cut in half, from 80
percent to 40 percent. Meanwhile, the Hispanic
population has exploded from less than 10
percent to nearly 40 percent -- mostly poor
Mexicans.
And with that change, California went from being
the state that produced anti-tax initiatives,
Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to a state that
is absolutely untouchable by Republicans (see
Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina) and just enacted
the highest tax rate in any state.
The same has happened, or is happening, to other
states, such as Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois
and New York. If Texas ever flips, Republicans
will never win another presidential election.
The two major political parties will be the
Nancy Pelosi Democratic Party and the Chuck
Schumer Democratic Party.
Republicans' low-tax, small-government
philosophy will eventually become popular with
today's struggling Hispanics, but not before
America is ruined with socialist policies
promoted by populist hucksters so strangely
beguiling to poor people the world over.
It's not that poor immigrants think differently
about most issues from the rest of us. Try
asking a recent immigrant:
-- How do you feel about abortion?
It's taking a life.
-- What should we do about criminals?
Lock them up and throw away the key.
-- Do you support raising taxes?
No, the government takes too much already.
-- How do you feel about overpaid,
well-pensioned government workers with no-show
jobs?
It ticks me me off.
-- Do you support gay marriage?
Absolutely not.
-- How are you going to vote?
Democratic.
Most recent immigrants oppose abortion, gay
marriage and big government. The problem is that
poor, uneducated people -- the Democratic base
-- are easily demagogued into voting tribally.
A white person can vote for a Republican or a
Democrat without anyone saying to him, "HOW CAN
YOU VOTE AGAINST YOUR RACE?" But that is exactly
how poor Hispanics and blacks are pressured into
voting Democratic.
Noticeably, the No. 1 issue Obama had in his
favor this year was not his policies. It was
that a majority of voters agreed with the
statement: Obama "cares for people like me."
That's how Hugo Chavez got elected.
Running Hispanics won't help Republicans. Ask
Gary Franks, Lynn Swann or Michael Steele if
being black won them the black vote.
Promoting amnesty won't help -- ask John McCain,
who won about the same percentage of the
Hispanic vote as Romney did.
Or ask California's Hispanics, only 4 percent of
whom oppose Republican immigration policies.
Their main beef with the GOP is that they think
Republicans are "the rich."
The only hope is to run another appealing
Republican candidate in four years -- when we're
not up against an incumbent president -- and
return our immigration policy to one that helps
America and not just the Welfare Party.
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