Democrat-Tyranny: Importing Poverty for Power

Linda Genzel

Opinion

A very large faction of Democrats strut about with their tails cocked and heads held high, proudly declaring themselves “Democrat-Socialist” as if slapping a shiny prefix onto the word magically transforms socialism into something cute, hip, and utterly harmless—better than capitalism, even! It doesn’t.

Democrat-Socialism is socialism or by any other pejorative, Democrat-Tyranny, rebranded and sold to the public through the Left’s performative Progressive flair for the emotional dramatics that is as superficial as it is predictable—at least to those of us with an IQ larger than our shoe size or who have simply grown tired of the grift. In truth, this flair is nothing more than a cunning game of semantics exploited to lure the unwitting with false promises of an imaginary glittering utopia of effortless, collective equality, equity, and government-provided abundance, with the administrative state playing the role of a benevolent overlord.

However, the grim reality of collectivism—whether labeled Democrat-socialism, socialism, communism, fascism, or any other one of its subjugating, ideological cousins—remains unchanged: it paves a one-way highway to the altar of the almighty nanny state, where the “individual” is sacrificed for the “collective good.” From the Soviet Union to Venezuela, history’s smoldering ruins are littered with bodies that tell the same brutal tale—one of poverty, coercion, and the withering of human existence, and not some enlightened paradise.

Once seized, Collectivists never voluntarily hand power back to the states or to the people thereof—oh no, perish the intolerable thought, such weakness would be unthinkable. They latch on, clinging to it with a white-knuckled death grip, sneering at federalism and individual liberty as embarrassingly quaint relics from a bygone era of rugged individualism.

After all, those pesky Constitutional safeguards our Founding Fathers carefully crafted to shield self-government against tyrants are clearly far too primitive for enlightened visionaries and self-anointed saviors such as AOC and Bernie Sanders, who always seem to know what’s best for the rest of us.

The harsh reality is that Collectivists have zero interest in cutting taxes, slashing regulations, or stepping aside to allow free citizens to thrive through their own ingenuity, grit, and raw determination to succeed. Instead, they delight in demeaning and punishing success—labeling it greed or privilege—whilst divisively rewarding laziness as they progressively expand government until it has devoured civil society whole, happily trading proud self-reliance for crushing government-dependence.

And Why? 

Because a population of independent, self-sufficient citizens is far harder to control than a nation of brainwashed, grateful dependents looking to Washington for their next handout.

At its rotten core, collectivism—peddled under the sanctimonious holy banner of equity—is nothing more than the cold, calculated pursuit of centralized power that exerts absolute control over every dimension of human existence with big government playing daddy, nanny, and warden from the womb to the tomb, smothering individual autonomy and leaving no room for private or personal decision making.

As is the Marxist way, Democrats haven’t just been advancing this very same collective nightmare of government dominance and cradle-to-grave dependence, but they have also been busy importing it through mass low-skilled migration, open borders, and ever-expanding entitlements for illegal aliens—all wrapped in the oh-so-noble, tear-stained guise of compassion . . . how touching.

Suffice it to say, the more poverty and dependency Democrats can cultivate at home and import from abroad, the closer and faster they hurtle toward the total, unchallenged tyranny they so clearly crave. As I noted earlier, a growing dependent population hooked on Washington’s meager crumbs of largesse is infinitely easier to manage than a nation of stubborn, independent citizens who might actually hold them accountable—after all, who needs voters with pitchforks when you can have loyal dependents with their hands out . . . dah!

Needless to say, if equity were truly the Democrats' goal, they wouldn’t have this all-consuming, feverish need to engineer a permanent underclass. They would simply reinforce the Constitutional principles and bedrock values that actually built this Republic. But that would require trusting the American people with their own freedom—and we just can’t have that, now, can we?

By contrast, when you have a government—more specifically, President Trump and the Republican Party . . . often referred to as the Patriot Party—that champions the exact opposite: small government, a free market economy, national sovereignty, secure borders, tax cuts that return money to families and businesses, deregulation to unleash American innovation, and the return of power to the states from Washington’s bloated Swamp and ultimately to the people themselves, they are, by definition, decentralizing power. That’s not dictatorship. It’s the American way, self-reliance, self-governance, and the restoration of our Constitutional Republic—how positively undemocratic of Republicans. The absolute gall of them—empowering the people instead of lording over a dependent flock . . . they are tyrants, I tell ya, tyrants, but I digress.

Make no mistake, when you decentralize power, you are not, by any stretch of the Democrats' delusional, deranged, or otherwise functionally brain-dead standards and/or overheated rhetoric, behaving like a fascist—quite the opposite, actually. You are, in point of fact, the antidote to fascism.

Take, for example, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which—in faithful adherence to the 10^th Amendment and the Justices’ Article III duties—rightly returned the issue of abortion to the “States” or, moreover, to the “People” of their respective states to decide through their state’s ballot box and legislature, rather than leaving the fate of the unborn up to the political whims of 535 politicians up on Capitol Hill. This ruling wasn’t fascism either, no matter how hysterically loud AOC and the rest of the professional Progressive propagandists shriek about it. It was, in accordance with the Constitution, the righting of a wrong—power to the people, not the Potomac princes and princesses who fancy themselves our betters.

Or consider Senator Bernie Sanders’ recent mad-as-a-hatter gotcha rant on childhood poverty. The pro-full-term, government-controlled abortion zealot and avowed socialist who supports the transgender genital mutilation of minors tried but failed to gaslight and guilt-trip pro-life Republicans with this little pearl of selective wisdom: “I’m wondering why, if you are concerned about children, why are we not dealing with the fact that the United States has the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth . . .” before smugly noting that we are in 35^th place—right ahead of Uruguay—out of the 36 countries examined by the United Nations.

Oh, please, spare us your onion-induced crocodile tears, Bernie.

The Woodrow Wilson-like, Soviet Union-admiring politician who champions the extermination of the unborn wants to know why Republicans care so much about the transgender genital mutilation of minors and the life of the unborn, with such high childhood poverty rates in the United States. He wants us to emulate Denmark—the nation with the lowest childhood poverty rate.

Well, he asked, so I’ll answer:

Notwithstanding the obvious—that Conservatives, unlike Democrats, not only believe in the sanctity of all life but also support secure borders, nationalism, and the sovereignty of our freedom-loving Constitutional Republic—and given the Democrats' pathological aversion to facts over manipulated feelings, allow me to simplify it in terms even Bernie’s flock of halfwits might grasp—terms staring everyone in the face. Denmark—second only to Norway in immigration restrictions—does not import poor people and the accompanying government dependency that drives up poverty rates.

Rates that Democrats, like Bernie, then turn around and weaponize for electioneering purposes, emotion-based votes, and rigged census seats in Congress.

Contrary to the Democrats’ One-World-Order open-border policies, Denmark has strict immigration laws that it actually enforces.

The Scandinavian nation refuses to flood its welfare system with ungrateful low-skilled, no-skilled migrants who not only refuse to assimilate, pledge allegiance, and/or contribute to their society in any meaningful way, but who also drain resources and drive up dependency and poverty.

Denmark, unlike Democrats, protects its own people first—what a novel, “compassionate” concept that Progressives suddenly find utterly foreign.

Suffice it to say, while Bernie deserves an A+ for perfecting the art of performative moral grandstanding and selective outrage, skipping right over the aforementioned inconvenient truths, he completely dismissed the most obvious and explosive variable of all: that between January 20, 2021 and January 20, 2025, all he, Biden, and their Marxist Democrat Party did was import millions of poor people from approximately 192 countries.

Geez, I wonder why our poverty rates went up . . . not!

But kudos to Bernie for the lecture, though—he really laid the hypocrisy on thick, didn’t He?

It’s truly rich that the same Progressive politician and Party responsible for engineering dependency through low-skilled migration now wants applause for spotting the poverty they imported.

That said, the notion, or moreover, the absolute fact, that Democrats opened our Southern Border to the world, then surreptitiously enrolled millions of ineligible illegal aliens in welfare programs—meant solely for Americans—in order to engineer poverty, skew our poverty rates, pad the census for Congressional control, and now demand that we, the American taxpayer, fund the priorities of said “poor people,” i.e., illegal aliens, is utterly ludicrous . . .

Let me tell you something: no, we do not have to do any such thing!

Nowhere is it written or mandated in our Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land, that We the People—the American taxpayer—are obligated, whether morally, legally, or otherwise, to pay out one red cent to support and fund the wants and needs of illegal aliens who should not be here, let alone send aid to their countries—where they are likely banking welfare checks too, also subsidized by or through the generosity of the American taxpayer.

The undeniable truth is this: if we stopped importing and deported all illegal aliens, poverty would plummet to historic lows in the United States.

The only reason we have a high impoverished population in this country is because Democrats imported it or them and are relentlessly and aggressively fighting to block deportations through activist judges and the demonization of ICE.

Needless to say, if you don’t import poverty, you won’t have as much poverty; it is as simple as that, and unless and until the electorate is willing to stand up, speak up, and stop voting for Democrats, poverty rates are just going to continue rising.

Expanding welfare benefits to illegal aliens naturally inflates poverty stats. Simply put, it has nothing to do with Republicans, a lack of American generosity, or the rich not paying their fair share in taxes—they already pay more than anyone else, despite Bernie and the Democrats' lies to the contrary. Rather, it stems from and has everything to do with the Democrats’ far-left Marxist agenda to import dependency in order to centralize power—it is not compassion, it’s calculated tyranny.

So, here’s a witty little rejoinder for Bernie: if you want Scandinavian outcomes, import Scandinavians—or at the very least, people who share their commitment to self-reliance and cultural cohesion.

Flooding the system with millions who require immediate net subsidies—while eradicated diseases like measles reappear in clusters—is not governance. It is playing a dangerous and deadly game of demographic roulette with American lives as the stakes.

The fact is: deportations paired with secure borders would achieve more measurable progress for Americans than any new socialist spending spree ever could or would.

So, how about this, Bernie: be more like Denmark. Enforce our immigration laws, deport illegal aliens, and prioritize skilled immigrants who will assimilate and strengthen our Republic rather than strain the fabric of our society. And while you’re at it, why don’t you consider supporting and voting for legislation that returns power to the people and the states where it belongs—exactly where our Founding Fathers intended it to be, per the 10^th Amendment, or is that asking far too much of a career socialist who worships centralized power?

The truth is: unlike Bernie Progressives, Conservatives have neither the patience nor the interest in the fascistic authoritarian temptation of centralized power—whether it arrives under the oh-so-compassionate guise of open borders that import poverty, threaten the security of Americans, and ultimately dissolve national sovereignty, or is accomplished through Washington’s bureaucratic sprawl that traps citizens in dependency.

America thrives when it chooses liberty over engineered equality, and self-government over imported serfdom.

The alternative is a future where “compassion” and “open borders” become a euphemism for ever-higher taxes to subsidize the very policies engineering poverty and undermining opportunity for our children. That is not kindness. It is betrayal.

Linda Genzel Editor @WECU News

Opinion.