Illegal-alien juggernaut turns into a house fly

Washington, D.C. local news says that only 1,000 people attended the illegal-aliens rally yesterday. This is even lower than the astonishingly low turnouts in other cities in recent days. What the heck is going on here, that a “cause” that drew the largest crowds in American history last spring now only draws a handful of attendees? Could it be that the Mexicans in America know that el Presidente Busherón’s kill-America bill isn’t going anywhere this year, and that this took the wind out of their sails? If so, this gives us an idea of the importance of the House GOP’s having stood like a stone wall against the worst bill in American history.

We should reflect on the meaning of this remarkable shift. Those city-sized crowds in the spring conveyed the sense that the Mexicans in America are this emerging, unstoppable, politics-changing, nation-changing force. Now they’re gone, at least as an organized presence in the streets. The same thing could happen to their very presence in this country. With a correct change of attitude and policy by our government, clamping down on illegals instead of accommodating them, the Mexicans would start to disappear back to Mexico. We are not subject to massive historical forces over which we have no control. Our national fate is still in our hands.

Stephen T. writes:

Sorry to hear that the head-count at the illegal alien marches is down. For we who strongly support border control and deportation, it would be hard to buy better publicity for our cause than these marches.

Let the marches continue! But, at the same time, this decline was very predictable.

Mestizos have a seemingly instinctive, and extremely volatile, attraction to the dramatics and theatrics of “el grande’ marcha.” They serve as public theater for assertions of manhood and fulfill an inherent need to demonstrate ethnic territory claiming, all vital to the maintenance of that famously fragile “Mexican Pride.” Of course, the enemy of drama and theatrics is always familiarity and routine. I knew that when the stimulating novelty, and the buzzing vibe of bravado, began to ebb, attendance would drop precipitously.

Along those same lines, consider this. Despite the grandiose chanting of millions of Mestizos in Los Angeles last May that “Tomorrow we vote,” the L.A. Times now reports that, with election day fast approaching, almost none have taken the trouble to register to vote. Again, you didn’t need a crystal ball to see that coming: the electoral process, which Mexicans associate with the alien and frigid European culture, strikes them as an unstirring, solitary exercise (filling out boring forms, privately pulling levers in a booth behind a curtain) unconnected to any immediate and dramatic cause/effect, and thus very vulnerable to their flyaway attention span.

I think their rulers in Mexico—most in the last century have had facial and physical characteristics which would not be out of place on any boulevard in southern Europe—have taken the position that you simply let the Mestizos march and boldly proclaim their vows of conquest and machismo, let them wave their flags to an ancient, heroic past that in fact never really existed. Having satisfied that primal instinct, most can be counted on to return to a stoop laborer / school dropout existence, happy to spend election day at home, kicking back and enjoying cold beer and music, played very, very loud.

Howard Sutherland writes:

Good news, and while I think Stephen T. is on target about Mestizos’ amusements I don’t think I agree with him about their parades. The only thing our non-representative senators and president (most representatives, too) respect is power. Last spring, despite the tactical error of waving so many Mexican flags, the illegals and their fifth column showed power. The immediate result was the passage of the Senate’s destroy-America bill. At a time when the president and the rest of the Latin American lobby are still agitating for passage of some immigration concession to the illegals, nothing could be better for us than these no-show turnouts. If the invaders had matched their Spring turnouts, our querulous Congressmen would have thought they had to give them something.

See Fredo Arias-King’s recent CIS Backgrounder for some disturbing insight into whose good opinion our congressional “representatives” really crave.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 08, 2006 10:54 AM | Send