Elite nation-building thought process

by philg

One reason the New York Times subscription is worth it is for the window into the thought processes of the elites. “Over 75,000 Job Openings in Iowa Alone. Millions of Refugees Seeking Work. Make the Connection.” (NYT, 2/2/2023) is a great example. Excerpts:

Across the globe, 32.5 million refugees are seeking safety, many of them adults in search of work. At the same time, severe labor shortages in the United States and many other high-income countries have left businesses clamoring for workers.

The United States can help address both problems (and more) through bipartisan immigration reform — and states can be part of new solutions with innovative ideas that could act as the foundation for immigration federalism.

Creating a pathway for individuals to live and work in Iowa and other states would ease the burden on America’s asylum system.

One of the pillars of modern elite thinking is that, instead of being organized by cultural affinity, a cohesive human society can be built by assembling people who did not like wherever it was that they were previously. That’s the basis of open borders for asylum-seekers. Native-born American taxpayers will fund apartments (in a building owned by a member of the elite!) for (1) person who says that he/she/ze/they was at risk of being killed by a gang in El Salvador and speaks only Spanish, (2) someone who says that he/she/ze/they was a domestic violence victim in Haiti and speaks only Creole, (3) a migrant who says that he/she/ze/they was a victim in Syria and speaks only Arabic, and (4) a former police officer from Somalia (based on occupation, automatically eligible for asylum?) who speaks only Somali. Though they share no common language, these four folks can bond over… something. Thus, a thriving neighborhood is born. (Maybe they bond over their shared hatred for life in the respective countries of their birth?)

What’s new from the New York Times is the suggestion that these migrants get allocated by a central bureaucracy of elites to states in which there are (elite-owned) businesses whose offered wages are insufficient to attract native-born workers and existing immigrants. So not only will an asylum-seeker be in a country that he/she/ze/they may not have wanted to live in, but the asylum-seeker will be in a state that he/she/ze/they did not want to live in. (Remember that asylum-seekers are “fleeing” from somewhere. They’re involuntarily in the U.S. because this is the only place that they can be safe. It may be that the asylum-seeker dislikes and disagrees with everything about American culture and values, but the alternative was death.)

From Amana, Iowa: 75 years of communal living, a couple of photos of what awaits welfare-dependent migrants from a conservative Islamic society:

(Why will they be welfare-dependent? If they’re in a low-skill low-wage job, especially if they have children, even working 40 hours per week they will be eligible for means-tested programs such as public housing, Medicaid, food stamps (SNAP/EBT), and Obamaphone.)

15 thoughts on “Elite nation-building thought process”

  1. “Though they share no common language, these four folks can bond over… something.” Wouldn’t bonding over public housing, Medicaid, food stamps (SNAP/EBT), and Obamaphone be enough?

    • How many of these refugees can do the job duties? A lot of these open jobs are service jobs which require reasonable command of English or trades jobs which require skills, familiarity with tools and local standards, and often require some form of licensing.

      Thr “elite”, being rather stupid, does not comprehend the notion of workforce quality.

  4. Nice to see that the situation is the same everywhere. European propaganda is currently afraid that Ukrainians will go back to Ukraine!

    https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/eu-states-competing-to-attract-ukrainian-workers/

    Ukrainians coming to EU countries following Russia’s invasion could fill significant gaps in national labour markets, but their possible massive return to Ukraine or competition among EU countries is causing employers headaches.

    Slovakia has similar concerns. According to Katarína Tešla, PR manager of Kariéra.sk job portal, Ukrainians helped the Slovak labour market, filling jobs Slovak were not interested in. This has been exceptionally felt in HORECA sectors as businesses struggled with a lack of employees after the pandemic.

    The question why the standard of living was higher in Western Europe before 1990 is never asked. Everyone tries to undercut all others. I wonder what Polish workers will say when they have no more jobs in Germany or France because they are too expensive.

  5. The unspoken reality, which I assume every reader here already knows: the Davos elite are purposively destroying the Western world through mass immigration, knowing perfectly well that it will (by design) impoverish us and utterly remove any possibility that the people who invented science, technology, classical music, and everything else great will be ever able to rebel in any way against their technocratic dystopia, which will be the permanent future of the whole human race.

    The New York Times article is just an example of how the evil people who control the world mock the few remaining good people left as they openly destroy everything we love and everything God loves.

    Philip, I appreciate the way you poke fun at these evil absurdities. It’s probably a good thing that you are able to keep a sense of humor about it in a way that I cannot, because I believe Satan is going to enjoy a complete and total victory. But I wish you would occasionally take a step out of your ironic pose and just make an earnest statement about how things really are. In this case, that immigration is being weaponized to destroy what’s left of western civilization, and that in 50 years nobody on earth will remember what it’s like to not live in a third-world country.

    • Jimmy: It is tough for me to express personal outrage about mass immigration because I’m part of the class that gets richer because of it (working class Americans give up wealth while I, a real estate and public equities investor, gain wealth), according to this Harvard analysis: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216/

      I don’t suffer from the nightmarish traffic jams created by population growth (entirely driven by immigration; see https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2015/09/28/modern-immigration-wave-brings-59-million-to-u-s-driving-population-growth-and-change-through-2065/ ) because I don’t have to commute to work. Our family is wealthy enough to buy out of public schools if they go downhill due to being packed full of non-English speakers who aren’t academically inclined (but that won’t happen in Jupiter, I don’t think, because it is too difficult to build additional housing! It isn’t hypocritical as it was in our 2-acre-minimum-zoned Boston suburb because people in Jupiter do not have “housing is a human right” and “no human is illegal” signs on their lawns).

      Finally, if the U.S. does become completely unlivable, my hope is that our family will have enough money and education to qualify to live in a country that has done a better job of keeping a society together. Remember that I’m working on a Portuguese (EU) passport for myself and our kids right now (citizenship via investment). That would give us relatively easy access to a broad range of societies, some of which are untouched by mass immigration.

  6. “Elites” must be today’s right-wing trigger word.

    Is it worse to be “elite” or “woke”? “Socialist” or “Marxist”? “CRT” or “1619”? “MS-13” or “ISIS”? “Hillary” or “Obama”?

    If your blood pressure just rose by 20 points from seeing all of those words in one paragraph you have a problem.

  7. We send millions of $$ to those 3rd world countries. Looks like this money is being put into good use: a) most of it is used by the corrupt government, and b) what’s left is used by the immigrant to make their way to USA.

  9. I’m surprised more people are not pursuing the Portuguese passport. My daughter is stranded in London after Brexit and well into the 5-year process for a Portuguese passport (Portu-port?).It looks like a good plan that offers options from Ireland to Greece.

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