The liberal legacy

Ann Coulter has assembled some very enlightening facts and offered some equally enlightening conclusions regarding the election outcome last week.  Her first point:

More white people voted for Mitt Romney this year than voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980. Barack Obama lost white voters by 20 points -- the widest margin since 1984.

But in 1980, whites were 88 percent of the electorate. In 2012, they were 72 percent of the electorate. Not only that, but the non-white electorate is far more Democratic than it was in 1980.

Her second point:

Most Americans don't realize that, decades ago, the Democrats instituted a long-term plan to gradually turn the United States into a Third World nation. The country would become poorer and less free, but Democrats would have an unbeatable majority!

Under Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration act, our immigration policy changed from one that replicated the existing ethnic population to one that strictly favored unskilled immigrants from the Third World. Since 1968, according to Peter Brimelow, author of "Alien Nation," 85 percent of legal immigrants have come from what is euphemistically called "developing countries." 

Because recent immigrants have no skills, they arrive in dire need of government assistance. Their desperation has been an enormous boon to the Democratic Party.

Thirty-nine percent of native households receive some form of government assistance. By contrast, 57 percent of immigrant households -- legal immigrants -- get government assistance. We can't do anything about the native population, but why on Earth is America taking in immigrants who require taxpayer support? 

Regarding California, she adds:

In the last half-century, California's non-Hispanic white population has been cut in half, from 80 percent to 40 percent. Meanwhile, the Hispanic population has exploded from less than 10 percent to nearly 40 percent -- mostly poor Mexicans.

And with that change, California went from being the state that produced anti-tax initiatives, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to a state that is absolutely untouchable by Republicans (see Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina) and just enacted the highest tax rate in any state. 

Coulter goes on to make the point that while recent Mexican immigrants in some ways are predisposed to conservative values they distrust the Republican Party as the party of the "rich" which does not value the common worker.  While Coulter does not overtly make the connection between immigrants voting propensity for the Democrat Party (70%) and the Obama campaign's demagoguing on this issue, it is clear that the constant positioning of Romney as an out-of-touch, uncaring "rich" guy, was effective.

The Welfare Party, as Coulter labels the Democrat Party, is the only winner in this election.  Because policies that create dependency make the government disproportionately larger while concurrently shrinking the job creating private sector, lower income workers are most adversely impacted.  In general slower growth will prevail throughout the economy causing less opportunities at all levels of employment.  Thank you Ted Kennedy and all other misguided liberals throughout history.