Thankfully, I'll be dead when it happens.

 

The Immigration Reform bill is yet another sign of the impending American apocalypse. While (almost) everyone agrees the border needs to be secured before any legalization takes place - the bill in it's current form allows the Dept. of Homeland Security head, Janet Napolitano to simply declare the border secure and dismiss the construction of any walls, electronic or physical, from being deployed. Does anyone really think Janet or any other Democrat installed head of the DHS has any interest in securing the border? Of course not. The Dems are real big on telling Republicans that they must change and embrace the illegals. In fact, Dems are more than eager to instruct the GOP on how to remain a relevant political party and get votes. Hmmm. I don't think we should be taking advise from the opposition. They may not have our best interests at heart. The GOP has been losing the Latino vote every year since Ronald Reagan's ill fated 1986 Amnesty program. Although well intentioned, the promises of securing the border after the Amnesty never materialized. Hence, the problem we have today. We're told that legalizing the law breakers is the only way they'll like us. Well, that tact hasn't worked so well for us in the past. And it's not likely to make much inroads into the Hispanic vote these days either. Although most Latinos are Conservative on social issues, they also embrace big government solutions the Dems love to employ. My life experience tells me that money issues are usually the winning issues. The Dems know that if they can get the Latinos, especially the new immigrant Latinos on their side, they'll vote Democrat and all but insure that we will never see another Republican President. In that scenario, the GOP could only hope to have power in the House of Representatives. Forget the Senate. We can be obstructionists but never the party that sets the agenda. If Texas is turned from a red state into a blue state - game over. And it could happen if the American southwest is flooded with Democrat voting Latinos. Should that occur, say hello to an even bigger entitlement demanding and receiving America. And the enormous debt that will go along with it. I hear people say that the Immigration bill wont allow citizenship for many years. But once this bill grants them "legal status", it wont be long before the Dems will insist their new found legality should permit them accelerated citizenship and the voting rights that go along with it. The good news for me at least, is that the changing demographics probably wont have their full effect for another 40 years or so. By then, I'll be in my mid-nineties or... dead. So I wont have to witness the death of my beloved country. America will continue but not the America I knew. Not the America as our founders envisioned. Not the America worth saving. We will follow the path that previous superpowers have. The rise, the glory, the apex, the greed, the decline, the fall. If we're to avoid this path, we must be vigilant and vocal while we still have time. Otherwise, by 2045, you'll be asked to Press 2 for English. If you're given that choice at all.