Conservative Americans may be the last people who still believe in the American nation-state

17 July 2018

Citizen voting is implicitly connected to the premise of the nation-state. Non-citizen voting is an abrogation of this premise. Non-citizen voting is promoted by Progressives as a way of fracturing the nation-state, and enfranchising foreign voters who will overwhelmingly vote for the Progressive agenda.

Gregory Hood wrote in the July 16, 2018 American Renaissance article, The End of Citizenship:

...Noncitizen voting is now being debated is Boston, the cradle of the American Revolution. The city that arguably did the most to create a genuinely American identity is now working to unmake it, as the city council debates voting rights in local elections for legal immigrants....

Tanvi Misra, whose opposition to immigration law enforcement is clear from her Twitter feed... matter-of-factly notes that the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 “reconfigured the demography of America” (contrary to the explicit promises of the bill’s supporters, such as Ted Kennedy). “The overhaul of these policies opened the door for immigrants—and also for the reintroduction of local noncitizen voting in the coming decades,” she writes....

More recent attempts to allow noncitizen voting have sometimes been explicit efforts to empower Third World immigrants, oppose the Trump Administration, and create a permanent leftist coalition built on non-white voters. ...

There is a conservative reaction. A North Dakota Republican state senate candidate is pushing a state constitutional change that would ban noncitizen voting. There is a similar ballot initiative in Montana. Republicans generally tend to be more wary of potential voter fraud; a poll released in August 2017 found half of Republicans polled would support delaying the 2020 election if President Trump said it was necessary to prevent voter fraud.

Enfranchising foreigners means disfranchising citizens, since each noncitizen cancels out one citizen...

Creating a potential new majority of foreign voters to rule over a population of natives is conquest.

This is why progressives favor it. Noncitizen voting disempowers citizens; it is a way to “elect a new people.” 

Conservative white Americans may be the last people who still believe in the American nation-state....