so how does this get this bad?
well, let me tell you:
it starts simply enough: a number of political factions feel challenged and seek to stay in power. they have lived off bribing and co-opting voters at home, but this has run out of rope and they need a new-new thing.
to prop themselves up electorally and in the electoral college and US house of representatives apportionment by census, they import voters from abroad.
this gets them two things.
more population and therefore more electoral votes and more representatives
a local voter base beholden to them that will support them, thick or thin because they are a dependency or people who could never make it in the US unsupported. they were selected for this exact reason. “they are all on welfare” is a feature, not a bug.
the trade was simple:
you come here, i give you free housing, welfare, education, food and education worth many multiples of your standard of living at home, you get to live in a nice, safe place and have 12 zillion kids, and you vote for me and get your friends to vote for me.
the systems were so rigged it was surreal. in MN, one registered voter can “vouch” for up to 8 others, all of whom are then eligible. the mail in ballots go out in bales to housing projects and buildings and “operatives” are paid to “harvest” them and others paid to fill them out and send them in.
easy peasy. everybody wins except the folks being made to pay for this, but let’s face it, john and jane q taxpayer have not had any government representation since lord knows when.
and then the criminals extol the virtues of their crime syndicate as though it’s high morals.
it’s really about as manipulative and inverted as it gets.
it boils down to this:
being able to defraud the electorate and plunder the taxpayers was the price of winning elections, one the political machines were happy to pay.
