Home again, home again 4/24/14

Been awhile since I did one of these.  This is like the motivation to make a post as soon as I got home.  Today, not quite so eager, but eager nonetheless.

It's about the immigration thing.  I'm being pushed for contributions to a drive to get the government to stop doing something really stupid and destructive.  So this made me think a bit.  What I came up with is this:  the Democrats have a political strategy.  It is immigration until they own the vote.  They'll swamp the polls with their own people and then they'll own the country.  In contrast, the GOP can only go along for the ride.  There's no difference on the immigration issue at the top levels.  It's only the grassroots that wants to oppose immigration.  Thus, without their own immigration strategy, the GOP is a dead duck politically.

It makes me wonder:  why write about politics at all?  The Democrats are going to get what they want.  The GOP will do nothing substantive to stop them.  Besides, they have no strategy to counter the Democrats immigration strategy.  None at all at the highest levels.  The only thing they can come up with is something that won't make them seem so mean to "minorities".  Incidentally, "minorities" will become majorities before too long if this keeps up.  Why would it not?  There's nobody stopping it.

You can argue the issues like Perry Mason in a courtroom, but that will avail nothing at all.  This is a pure power play.  The Democrats are going to ignore you because they don't have to pay attention to you.  When they say "the debate is over", they are really serious about it.  They are going to redo this society into whatever they want it to be.  The GOP is going to be a non-entity throughout.

The time to address this is now.  However, nothing much is going to happen because there are plenty in the GOP who think a good argument is going to make a difference.  So they'll argue and it will be ignored.  Like the wolf and the lamb in Aesop's fable.  The wolf will do whatever it wants because it is bigger and meaner than the lamb.  Doesn't matter if the lamb can defend itself with words, it is more important that the lamb is helpless in the face of the wolf's aggressions.  The GOP is like the helpless lamb in that fable.  They are going to lose the argument no matter how well they argue.  The only way to win an argument with a wolf is to out wolf the wolf.