Posted on 02/08/2024 6:23:27 AM PST by SJackson
For decades, progressives have dreamed of changing Texas from a “red” Republican state to a “blue” Democrat one. This dream is realistic because Democrats have succeeded in turning several western states “blue.”
For example, California was the state that launched the political career of President Ronald Reagan. Prior to his presidency, Reagan served two terms as Governor of California. Today, California is a progressive wasteland, rapidly losing population and businesses.
Not long ago, Republicans controlled Washington, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado. Today, Democrats either totally or partially lead those states.
One of the major reasons these states have become Democrat bastions is the influx of Hispanic immigration, both legal and illegal. In the last midterm election, a survey showed that 64% of Hispanic voters supported Democrat candidates, while only 33% supported Republican candidates.
Thus, boosting the size of the Hispanic population helps improve the political chances for Democrats. It is certainly a major reason Democrats, like President Biden, encouraged undocumented migrants to cross our border. In his first press conference as President, Biden said he was “flattered” that undocumented migrants were surging into the country.
Along with encouraging an influx of new entries into the United States, Biden stopped construction of the successful border wall that was started by President Donald Trump. He also ended the “Remain in Mexico” program, which did not allow those individuals seeking asylum in the United States to enter the country until their immigration court dates. In addition, Biden reinstituted “Catch and Release,” which allowed undocumented migrants to remain here until their hearing date, which might not be scheduled for ten years.
The open border policy has worked for the Democrats as over ten million noncitizens have entered the United States in the last three years. This is a greater number of people than the total population of 41 states.
Among the huge number of individuals apprehended at the border were 1,586 “known suspected terrorists.” It is unknown how many suspected terrorists evaded border apprehension.
Thus, the open border is putting the American people in grave danger of a terrorist attack. Americans are also being inundated by border crossers with criminal records.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended almost 50,000 criminal noncitizens. This number does not include the tens of thousands of criminal noncitizens arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and local and state police officers.
The open border also can lead to dangerous health epidemics. As documented by journalist James Varney, “For two years running, polio has been detected in some New York water samples, and this fall, leprosy re-emerged in Florida, where cases of malaria have also been recorded.” According to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University physician and scientist, “The recent polio and leprosy cases are almost certainly imports to the U.S.”
If threats of crime, terrorism and dangerous disease epidemics were not enough reasons to close the border, there are also the verifiable economic costs. Research from the Federation of American Immigration Reform determined that in 2023 the economic costs of illegal immigration were approximately $150.7 billion, at the local, state and federal levels.
An increase in illegal immigration leads to a bevy of economic woes such as a major boost in government spending to provide an array of benefits. Some undocumented migrants displace American citizens in the workforce and do not pay taxes on their earnings. While others send a portion of their paycheck to their families in their home country, depriving the United States of billions of dollars in economic benefit each year.
The serious risks to the American people caused by allowing an open border are deemed to be acceptable by Democrats looking to garner more political power. As usual, Democrats are not concerned about improving the standard of living for undocumented migrants or tax paying American citizens. Their only goal is to enhance their political strength, and this can be accomplished by turning Texas into a “blue” Democrat state.
Undoubtedly, Democrats are getting closer. In the 2020 presidential election, Biden only lost the state by five percentage points. This was the best showing for a Democrat presidential candidate since 1996, even though the party’s nominee has not won in Texas since Jimmy Carter did in 1976.
Democrats are hoping to turn Texas “blue” because that would give them an electoral lock on the presidency and Congress. The only chance for Republicans to take back control of the presidency and both houses in Congress is to win in Texas.
Other than an anomaly in 1968 due to a strong third party candidate, George Wallace, who took almost 20% of the vote from GOP presidential nominee Richard Nixon, the last time the Republicans won the White House without winning the electoral votes in Texas was in 1924.
Winning elections in the “Lone Star” state is crucial to gaining and maintaining power in Washington D.C. The state sends thirty-eight representatives to the United States Congress, 8.7% of the overall total, and has forty electoral votes in the presidential race, 14.8% of the magic number of 270 that is needed to win.
In the 2024 race, Texas Democrats will be helped by George Soros, the leftwing billionaire known for his financial support of progressive causes. As uncovered by Fox News, in the last year, Soros has contributed $3 million to five progressive political organizations, including the Texas Majority PAC.
The group’s Deputy Executive Director, Katherine Fischer, vows to use the funds to mobilize voters in Texas “on a scale never seen before, year after year, in the key regions of our state.” The Texas Majority PAC is funding local Democratic Party organizations throughout the state. In Cameron County, Democratic Party Chair Jared Hockema, said that new funding was “more than we’ve ever had available to us.”
In 2024, Democrats will be targeting Texas and everything from their border policies to their political strategies should alert Republicans that they better focus on the state before it is too late.
BTTT
File this under: no shirt Sherlock.
In their haste to try and flip TX they may lose IL, NY, MI CO, etc.Democrats need gun control because they aim at themselves.
This is only partially true. California was a Progressive Republican State from the days of Hiram Johnson (governor from 1911-16). In uniting both progressive and conservative elements in the Republican Party, what Reagan did in his primary against RINO George Christopher demandds serious stuy, as it represents what we need to accomplish nationally.
Click on this demographics map of Los Angeles.
https://bestneighborhood.org/race-in-los-angeles-county-ca/
It shows that Los Angeles is almost entirely Hispanic with a growing Asian population.
Other tabs on the map show that they are uneducated, poor, renters and single parent families.
Another tab shows that the entire city is blue, liberal.
You can zoom out to see the rest of the country.
Compare the maps of Race and Politics. They are nearly the same map.
The entire lower part of our country has been invaded by Hispanics.
Only 7 states have a higher population than Los Angeles County.
1 California 37,253,956
2 Texas 25,145,561
3 New York 19,378,102
4 Florida 18,801,310
5 Illinois 12,830,632
6 Pennsylvania 12,702,379
7 Ohio 11,536,504
Los Angeles County 10,120,000
Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) are used to keep white men from being hired, promoted and receiving contracts. It’s written into law that California’s High Speed Rail will guarantee that 12 percent of the contracts will not go to companies owned by white men.
They tear down our historical monuments and call us Colonialists.
In 2020, naturalized citizens made up one in ten U.S. voters.
https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/02/26/naturalized-citizens-make-up-record-one-in-ten-u-s-eligible-voters-in-2020/
California has a Disadvantaged Communities Map that closely matches the immigration map.
https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/sb535
California’s SB535 is our Sustainable Living, Agenda 2030 law.
And combined with the (at least) 40 million illegals who were already here, the total is greater than the population of ANY state, and is why they must ALL be deported. Anything less is acquiescing to the destruction of the United States.
Texas was like the Alamo for the rest of the country escaping their liberal states, where will they go if it does turn blue?
What do these people imagine they will gain grom the shipwreck of our country? It isn’t like they will be safe on land gleaning the wreckage. They too are on the ship.
As a Texas, I am very concerned that the Dems will prevail in the Lone Star State within my remaining life-time. Ted Cruz barely beat Beto 6 years ago (Yes, Cruz took him lightly); major metropolitan areas like Dallas County, Williamson County, Harris County, Bexar County, Tarrant County and Travis County all favored the liberal Dems. I suspect immigration, the legal kind from liberal-leaning states like California, Illinois and New York, has quite a bit to do with this shift in demographics. Liberal leaning education or better termed “mal-education” is contributory. The sheeple are led to believe what the prevalent press tells them to believe as there is very little critical thinking in this day of social media group think. Yes, it is obvious Texas and Florida MUST remain in the R column for our county, as we used to know it, can return.
“Yes, it is obvious Texas and Florida MUST remain in the R column for our county, as we used to know it, can return.”
Not going to happen. The communists have taken the educational system, the media, and the entertainment industry. The near future is communism for America, disguised as “social democracy”.
It’s coming, and there’s nothing we can do about it. What happens once the people figure out what they got themselves into? Not sure, but in Russia, lots of folks were crying over the fall of communism. A lot of people don’t mind living in a crap hole, as long as everyone else is too.
I don’t think the Democrats expected Texas to counter their actions by shipping the Texas influx of illegals to “blue” states, thus making the blue states “bluer”, but having no effect on state electoral vote count.
Hopefully other states will do the same...
I think you’re right. May still have an effect since illegals are counted in the census. Could offset population thus house seat losses in places like California, New York and Illinois. Of course Trump tried to get non-citizens excluded from seat apportionment, so if he’s reelected and he’s successful the impact could be significant.
We are living in the equivalent of an oligarchy.
The Federal budget and foreign policy, specifically the money laundering operation in Ukraine, are being used to enrich those donors and special interests that establishment politicians as well.
Any Republican not dedicated to eliminating the Federal budget deficit, closing the borders and opposed to neocon foreign policy is unfit for office.
btt
IMO, it’s because the GOP and Republicans have lost their message as they genuflect to the progressive-liberal-woke mob. There are only a few remaining who have stayed true to the course.
They need to concentrate on why their policy is better than the DemocRATS. What is the DemocRAT’s message and counter it.
They also need to ask themselves if they really want the vote of some crazy woke college grad who encourages race wars and rioting.
Why is it that only the “serfs” can see what’s happening but those who we hire do not or will not?
California is a disease spreading across the country.
Communism has finally managed to do what they have tried for decades to do.
Soon, all who have fought for this country (and others) will soon die out.
America doesn’t have long now. We’re now in Hospice.
Get dual-citizenship before it’s too late.
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