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Probably because those minorities and foreigners are exhibiting the failure mode of all democracies, especially when they are multi-racial. They know voting is a racial head-count, and if they want to be counted, they need to vote D.
The Democrats are the party of minorities and foreigners. They've chosen to be so rather than moderate their policies to appeal to the native American population. This is a reversion to form, as Democrats have been shot through with international communists and Soviet sympathizers since FDR was first elected.
This is why you see internal migration going from blue states to red states. Democrats have shit policies which drive people out. This should cause Democrats to slowly lose relevance, or force them to pivot to more reasonable policies. Instead, they import foreigners, make them citizens, and rely on those votes (and the census representation that goes with the warm bodies) to maintain relevance.
The problem with this is that it means Democrats are trying to replace their opponents, breed them out, and kill them through neglect and indifference, in order to turn the country into a one-party government. When California becomes a one-party state, people leave for Texas and Idaho. When all of the US becomes Soviet, there's nowhere left to move.
I'm interested in "failure mode of all democracies" -- do you really think this, and what evidence are you using? Because sure, I can think of a fair few countries where democracy went poorly, but I'm not sure I'd jump to "democracy always fails in this manner" or similar argument "all democratic failures happen in this manner" or even "all countries that get too multiethnic and are democracies fail this way" and the similar prediction that "all democracies are doomed to eventual failure". Not quite sure which angle exactly you're describing.
If anything, I think that the two-party system, for all its incredible and well-documented failings, actually serves as a pretty good insulation from what I think you're talking about. Since both parties have an incentive to change their policies (often incrementally, but the base pressures are there) in order to win, or regain an edge, this means that a multi-ethnic state cannot rely on simple alliances between ethnic groups, but must in some sense compete for them, and trade groups once in a while too. Don't think we'd get very far broaching replacement theory per se in this context, but more wondering about the proposed mechanism and evidence side of things. Even assuming deliberate importation of votes is happening and intentional (which I obviously above dispute), for the sake of argument here, you can't do so indefinitely. I just don't think it usually makes sense numerically, without being washed out by backlash. For example, we can plainly see that even Kamala has had to harden her border policies. That's in direct response to discontent. Might she be lying? Sure. But the discontent is real and might even cost her an election, which I count as evidence for my above contention.
Greece and Rome, mostly, as well as the American Founders reflecting on Greece and Rome. This is ancient, and has been known for millennia. This is nothing new, and it is nothing I came up with on my own.
Read Aristotle and Socrates and Plato. Read Thucydides. Read history.
If you're looking for a peer-reviewed study in Nature or Science, you've come to the wrong place.
You are incorrect, it's obviously happening, and it's happening at an unprecedented pace during this administration.
Another, longer article arguing the same.
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Even in a high-immigration scenario, US population will peak around 2080 and red tribe white TFR is the highest stable one. Just make it that far and the country gets reconquêred.
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