The Liberal Party are steering their ship onto the rocks, and as much as I’d like not to interrupt them while they are making a mistake, it’s worth fleshing out why their strategy on immigration is such a disaster.
If you haven’t been paying attention, here is a quick recap.
The Coalition lost the last election, and responded by deciding it didn’t win enough immigrant votes. Sussan Ley and her lackeys have swapped promises to cut migration for promises to be more appealing to migrants, which added to much of the Australian public feeling that neither major party is listening to them on immigration. Then came the March for Australia and a full-blown freakout in the mainstream media about racism and anti-immigrant sentiment.
Then Liberal senator Jacinta Price came out and mentioned the Indian elephant in the room – that they tend to vote Labor – and ever since then the Liberals have been in panic mode, aided and abetted by the left-wing activist media, with subversive characters like Joe Hildebrand and Kos Samaras who would never vote for them anyway telling them the only way they can win is by appealing to immigrants.
The reasoning given is a) even if 85% of Indians are voting for Labor, they can’t afford to lose the other 15%, and have lots of potential ground to gain, and b) Indians are voting for Labor because they think Liberals are anti-immigration, and therefore anti-them.
These arguments apply to other immigrant groups too, and have been accepted without question by the whole of the political establishment and media, despite being deeply flawed.
Indians might tell people like Kos that they are voting for Labor because “the Liberals don’t like us”, but this is clearly not the whole story.
The main reason that migrants from third-world countries vote for left-wing parties all over the West is that left-wing parties give them more free stuff, and free stuff is the reason they left their shithole countries in the first place.
The tens (hundreds?) of millions of immigrants that have poured into our countries since 2000 haven’t done so because they love Australian/British/Canadian/etc culture (America has more of a cultural pull, but it’s still not the main motivation) – they are economic migrants who have moved for a “better life”.
This might be free healthcare, pensions, clean air, work-life balance, not living in a shoebox apartment, not living in a dystopia surveillance state (until recently), not being poisoned by food and water, and so on, but “culture” is way down the list.
I met a Chinese guy the other day, who recently became an Australian citizenship and admitted doing a master’s in accounting at a university in Sydney so he could get permanent residency. He told me it was a struggle because “numbers aren’t his thing”. Anyone who has had honest conversations with immigrants will tell you similar stories.
They came to our countries to enjoy the fruits of our ancestors’ labour, and to enjoy the social safety nets we put in place for our own citizens (again, the US is a slightly different case), so why would they suddenly vote to remove the benefits they moved to here for?
The other part of the picture that the analysts get wrong is what immigrants from non-Western countries mean when they say “they don’t like us”.
What this really means is that they understand that right-wing or right-of-centre parties are not on their side, because they are (or should be), on the side of the native population, because they have an in-group preference, or are perceived to have one.
It’s a recognition that left-wing parties have an out-group preference, and will therefore always put them above the native population.
Policy, therefore, has little to do with it. The Liberals can be (and have been) just as pro-immigration as Labor and immigrant voting blocs will still see them as the party of White Australians, because they are the “right-wing party”.
This, of course, means that trying to appeal to these groups with policy changes, platitudes and pandering is pointless. They will vote against you, and if you manage to win anyway they will still take everything you promised them, and then vote against you again.
But there’s also an implicit threat here:
If you don’t keep importing more of my ethnic group, my ethnic group are not going to vote for you
This seems to put the Liberals in a tough position – they fear they can’t win without support of ethnic minority voting blocs, but if they capitulate to immigrant voter demands they are importing more people who will vote against them.
So far the Liberals have chosen capitulation, which is disastrous for two reasons.
Firstly, it’s disastrous for them, because as explained above, ethnic minority immigrants are never going to vote for them, so all that will happen is that they will lose White Australian votes.
Secondly, it’s disastrous for Australia, because it speeds up the replacement and eventual extinction of White Australians, and by extension Australian culture as we know it, and, ultimately, Australia itself.
So even if they do manage to win the immigrant vote by bringing in more immigrants, they will lose the country.
What the Liberals need to do instead is start treating these ethnic voting blocs like the extortionists they are.
They are holding the Liberals to ransom, but have no intention of letting the hostages go.
Let them all vote Labor, and attack them for it.
Win over White Australians by fighting for their votes instead, and there are a lot more of them to gain – for now.
The only hope the Liberals have to survive as a party is to become the party of White Australians, and the party of remigration, nothing short of that will save the country.
Header image: Sussan Ley on an apology tour of Harris Park, where only 1 in 2o residents have Australian ancestry (Facebook).
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