Cargo Cult Americans

This ain't Ellis Island.

In the 20th century, many Pacific islands that were out of the sphere of influence came into contact for the first time with the modern world. They saw ships that dwarfed their simple canoes and fishing dhows, airplanes that were first mistaken as fearsome beasts in the sky, and other inventions that were beyond imagination. This led to some interesting results as primitive cultures interpreted Westerners routines as divine ritual.

From sapiens.org:

During World War II, when many Melanesians worked for U.S. and Australian military forces, they observed soldiers who never seemed to engage in any productive activities, such as fishing, hunting, working the land, or crafting anything. All they did was march up and down, raise flags, chant anthems, and signal toward the sky.

And when they did that, metal birds appeared and dropped all kinds of goods for them. The Indigenous observers concluded that the strange rituals were causing the cargo to arrive.

With the end of the war, the military bases were abandoned and the goods ceased to arrive. To get the cargo to return, local chiefs began organizing ceremonies that mimicked the rituals of the troops. Soon, elaborate myths and theologies developed around those rituals. Surely, the cargo must have been a gift from the gods—their own ancestors. After all, who else could be capable of producing such wealth? The foreigners had merely discovered the rituals that unlocked these treasures.

The 21st century appears to have unleashed a similar belief, at least amongst the progressive-leftist crowd in the form of “Magic Dirt Theory.” This essentially reduces people into identical widgets that can be moved across the global board game of nations without regard to culture, aptitude, or compatibility.

This can be seen with the recent uproar about 1000s of Haitians being sent to Springfield Ohio. This recent article tries to smooth over the problems with glowing reviews of how many new food trucks and businesses helped by a (heavily) subsidized foreign workforce.

With growing populations come problems. These are not imagined and have received ample coverage. As the population climbed back to previous numbers as a result of immigration and a more prosperous economy, emergency services, health care centers, schools, and city services were strained. As the housing stock declined, rent increased. It often became more difficult to secure appointments to key government offices and schools, which—once under threat of shutting down when the population was disappearing—were now trying to keep up with growing student bodies.

Tensions spilled over last year when an 11-year-old boy was killed in a school bus crash that involved a Haitian immigrant. The tragic death unleashed the type of nativist vitriol that Trump has helped to elevate to the highest levels of political power.

These kinds of problems, however, grew out of success, not crisis. They require commonsense, rational government solutions—not the kind of wall-building and deportation measures that would rob the city of a Haitian population that has brought it back to life. Federal support, for instance, could help shore up basic services. New measures to assist with affordable housing could bring down costs for homeowners and renters.

Just throw money at it, right? To the Liberal mind everything can be solved with more tax dollars spent. Ironic that one of the celebrated reasons for importing massive amounts of non-Western people is the supposed benefit of increased tax revenue. In reality, these actions always seem to cost the communities more of the scarce financial resources they have.

This is fine.

THE REALITY

I’ve been repeating the phrase “Cargo Cult” Americans to describe this endless wave upon wave of unassimilated groups that continue to arrive in the country who purely want to be here for the benefits and handouts.

Look around; not only to Ohio, but across the USA where they are practically shipping folks in. Small towns and rural hamlets. This isn't organic or natural movement of people at all. Immediately costs began to mount for infrastructure and community services.

Endless Fedbucks and assistance will not last forever to supplant the millions here. And then what? Collapse? Anarchy?

I certainly hope not. Although, it does seem that there is a change in the air. Constant refrains from legacy media and name-calling people as racists or xenophobes who dare speak up or complain about the situation doesn’t seem to work anymore to quiet down the chorus.

"Because We Live Here" is all the justification needed to refuse mass immigration, legal or illegal.