BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
MASS IMMIGRATION, I think, is the most important topic facing Western politics right now.
Western elites want to turn their nations from nation-states into universal states which is to say, a nation anyone can join. Their population does not want that, and so they vote for “populist” and “nationalist” politicians who are expected to stop migration into their countries.
The idea of a universal state works something like this: Take a Pakistani, a Nigerian and an Estonian, send them to Manila, teach them how to speak Tagalog, get them to eat Jollibee and make them wear barongs at important events, and they become just as Filipino as you or I. Some variants of the ideology don’t even require the trappings of culture, and assume that all peoples are interchangeable.
Governments and leaders have used population transfer and mass immigration to either pacify conquered populations or punish people who refuse to toe the line. The details may vary but the goal always remains the same: Greek tyrants have used it, the Chinese did it, the Persians under the Achaemenids have done it, the Incas have done it, etc.
What makes mass immigration different today is that it is portrayed as a humanist ideology and born out of compassion, when actually it is ultimately about securing power.
One of the purposes of mass migration is ethnic dilution and political dilution (for opposition groups), weakening local culture and strengthening the role of the bureaucracy. It serves the interests of an elite, usually a foreign or hated elite, but one that has decided they need to expand and centralize power, and one the best ways to do that is by importing a foreign client group who will support them because they are dependent on them.
Western peoples instinctively know this, and I expect the proportion who opposes mass immigration will only grow./PN
