Jack of Harts

An interesting epilogue to my long series on mass migrations, that you can find in my previous postings, is representation. The United States runs a census every ten years, and it counts all Persons living in it, and it grants representation to each State based on the total count of all Persons, except those who are bound to another polity, like ambassadors, or people who are here on a temporary basis such as with a visa.

In practice, the census counts illegal aliens, just as it used to count 3/5ths of each Slave for representation before Slavery was outlawed. The slaves couldn’t vote, but the slave owners wouldn’t sign the Constitution if they didn’t get to count them for purposes of them getting representatives. It was a way for the slave owners to get more power in the US House, and in Presidential elections, without them needing to actually get the people they were representing to vote for them. It was a perfect little scam. The Democrats lost that when Republicans took their slaves away, but through the KKK and then literacy tests and grandfather rules and poll taxes they continued to push for the same representation boost, while hindering the former slaves’ ability to vote.

Today the Democrats want illegal aliens in their States for the same reason. The more illegal aliens in their States, the more illegal aliens that are counted by the census for representation purposes, the more representatives and more power they get in the federal government. That is why the Democrats oppose deporting the illegal aliens, and why they oppose not counting illegal aliens in the census. It is a pure power grab. They want to use the illegal aliens the same way they used their slaves back in the day. First, to harvest their crops as they say again and again in interviews. But also to get them more power in the Federal government through more representatives. And in some States, they even register them to vote so they can vote for them as an extra little bonus.

This boost in representation is one of the reasons that Democrats support illegal immigration. And the amount of representation it would cost them if these illegal aliens are deported or not counted in the census is why they fight both like their political lives depend on it. Because if they lose tens of millions of People counted in their States, that will slash their representatives in the US government by a politically catastrophic amount.

Most of the mass migrations we know about have been between hundreds of thousands and millions of people. Most mass migrations have taken decades, if not centuries. And most mass migrations we have records of resulted in the destruction or displacement of the existing local population. We know this because the winning side wrote the records of what happened. And when the locals won and drove the invaders off, there was no mass migration for them to record. Just a people who tried to encroach on their lands that they drove off.

But sometimes we get to see a mass migration in real time. Sometimes we get to see the records of the existing native population as they see it coming. We see those in letters from all the civilizations that died when the Sea Peoples moved in and devastated one nation after another centuries before Christ. We can read their pleas for help. Their warnings that everything they had wasn’t enough. And we see them now, from the citizens of Europe as millions of people from other nations have swamped their shores and are destroying their way of life as we speak. Assuming you believe the letters we receive from the people.

And we see it here in America. Most estimates said there were around twenty million illegal aliens in America when I was young. And the previous administration pushed twenty million more illegal aliens into America in just the last four years. That is the largest and fastest mass migration in world history. And considering how many of them are effective enslaved right now, that makes it a slave trade as well. It puts the total number of illegal aliens in America at an estimated fifty to sixty million. One in five or six people you see on a daily basis is probably here illegally.

That is a civilization ending number. Obama said he wanted to fundamentally transform America. This is fundamental transformation in action. We are living in a mass migration in real time. The only question is if we will be writing the history books about it or if someone else will. If we wish to raise our grandchildren in the same kind of country we grew up in, we must stop the mass migration and hold it to a number we can safely absorb without losing what we have built here. If we do not, the next history books will tell of the fall of our civilization and the people who live here now. That is what the histories we read now tell us of the world before us.

I wrote Lifeboat for the Alien Family Traditions open call. While not accepted for the publication, it was a fun little palette cleanser to write. Most of my stories include a fair amount of destruction and death, as the Good Guys ™ fight the Bad Guys ™ in defense of the Fair Innocents ™ around them. This one I went in with a plan to write a story about a found family doing something that wasn’t violent. The original plan was a deep space rescue mission, but it changed as I wrote, and it became something entirely outside my plan as the story developed. That was a lot of fun. But it all started with the scene it started with. Some soldiers who grew up in wildly different places doing the whole “hurry up and wait” thing that anyone who has ever carried a weapon for Uncle Sam knows so well…

Lifeboat on Substack