Editorial illustration depicting political fundraising tied to anti ICE activism
This is not confusion. It is strategy.
If you want to understand the anti ICE rhetoric in America, stop treating it like confusion or compassion. Treat it like strategy.
When you understand the political and fundraising motivation, you see why Democrats and the left have spent years demonizing ICE, Border Patrol, and immigration laws. This goes back well beyond the fake horse whipping allegations aimed at Border Patrol agents under Biden. It goes beyond politicians forcing themselves into federal holding facilities. It goes beyond storming a Homeland Security secretary’s press conference without identification for clout and social media.
This goes to the core of what the Democratic Party in America has become.
Anti American.
Demonize enforcement. Then wait.
Sure, they will say, “this is a great country” and then launch into a rant about how everything that is the foundation and pillar of this country is wrong and must be changed. They say things like “the Constitution is a living breathing document” and “you live on stolen land” to confuse and shame anyone who disagrees. They repeat, endlessly, that you should not trust your lying eyes.
Then after years of demonizing law enforcement, demonizing our laws, and demonizing anyone who disagrees, they escalate the message. They encourage their followers to disrupt enforcement, attack our laws, and scream down dissent. The politicians prime the public. They condition the emotionally charged and the logically stunted. They flatter them into thinking they are heroes for inserting themselves into dangerous and illegal situations because a politician said so.
Then they lie in wait.
Because once an incident happens, they have what they really want.
The script is always the same.
In this case, it was Renee Good. But there have been others before, and there will be others in the future. The script is always the same. They declare “murder” before the investigation is completed, before evidence is collected, before the body is cold. Then they stoke flames using the hatred seeds they planted years earlier. They pour narrative gasoline on people who already have a hair trigger and no discipline.
And the people they rile up, they are always the ones who pay the price.
The activists get arrested. The useful idiots get prosecuted. The street level agitators get hurt. Sometimes someone dies. Meanwhile the political class sits in warm offices, takes PAC money, gets wined and dined by special interests, and somehow turns a public salary into millions in just a few years. They encourage illegal disruption because they know it is illegal. They encourage confrontation because they know what confrontation creates. It creates clips. Confrontation creates headlines. It creates outrage. It creates donations.
They do not need peace. They need fuel.
The Democrats need you angry enough to give them money.
Why immigration chaos stays useful
They do not actually care. If they did, they would act like adults and do the hard work. They would rewrite immigration law. Dems would fund the border. They would create a serious system that is enforceable and humane. They would stop using human beings as props.
But they refuse to change immigration laws because the chaos is the business model. Chaos creates incidents. Incidents create outrage. Outrage creates fundraising. Fundraising creates power. Power creates more fundraising. That loop is the point.
Remember, they are the stripper. You are the guy feeding her dollars. She will tell you she likes you, but she just needs you. Enjoy you blue balls, your going home alone, champ.
The long game: academia, culture, and obedience training
And yes, they have played a long game to get here.
From the communist hippies who filtered into academia, there has been a steady series of nudges. One class at a time. One administration position at a time. One curriculum shift at a time. They dumbed down the youth, not by accident, but by design. Progressives built a culture that rewards emotional reaction and punishes disciplined thinking. They taught kids to treat feelings as facts and outrage as virtue. Under the banner of mental health, they trained people to respond with instant emotional fury, then called it healthy.
Then the schools stopped focusing on reading, writing, and arithmetic and started preaching morals, social justice, and ideology. They wedged themselves between students and parents, telling kids their parents were racist, wealthy, uncaring, or backward. They started calling students “their kids,” like the state or the institution has ownership. Not every teacher, but enough that it became normal.
Now that entire pipeline has produced what you see in the streets today. The everyone gets a trophy generation, convinced they are marching like MLK while they behave more like brown shirts in 1930s Germany, intimidating, destroying, and attacking anyone who does not agree. And the leaders love it, because the leaders do not have to suffer the consequences. The leaders sit back, draft speeches, and wait for the inevitable incident.
Propaganda creates predictable outcomes
From Bernays to Goebbels and beyond, propaganda is not complicated. Repeat a lie enough times and people will parrot it. Tell people to insert themselves into illegal and dangerous situations and you will get predictable outcomes. Loss of life. Property damage. Arrests. Then the same people who helped create the conditions point to the fallout and say, “elect me so this does not happen again.”
But it will happen again.
If it did not happen again, they could not fundraise off it again.
Trust me, the stripper is going to tell you that after her next set, she is really going to show you a good time.
America First is not the problem
And when conservatives say America First, they pretend that is the problem. It is not. America First is not radical. It is the baseline responsibility of a government. That does not mean we cannot be generous. We are a generous nation. But generosity that bankrupts your own citizens is not virtue. It is negligence. We are so far in debt that our generosity is nearing the end of its financial viability. Our leaders have given away the house to foreign interests that shape our nation for them, not for Americans, and I am sure somebody got a nice donation in return.
The leadership never suffers what they sell
The progressive left wants to keep running down this path at breakneck speed. They want confrontation. They want chaos. The leadership want the optics. They want the money. They will keep sending their minions into the street while the leadership remains insulated. The leftist leaders will not say their real goals out loud because when they do, there is pushback.
We saw a fresh example with Cea Weaver, the rich white woman appointed to head housing in New York City. She is talking about seizing private property from lawful owners because owning property is racist. Meanwhile, her family lives just fine. Her parents worked in academia. They own a home worth around $1.6 million. She went to an exclusive school. Her brother is an assistant attorney general in Illinois. She did not stumble into socialism. She saw an opportunity to join the leadership class of socialism.
And here is the truth about every socialist movement ever sold to the public.
The leadership always lives high.
The public always suffers.
Like the stripper telling the ugly guy she loves him as long as he keeps paying. Utopia is always one election away. Justice is always one donation away. Progress is always one more crisis away. And the ugly guy keeps paying, waiting for a promise that will never be delivered.
So to all the progressive socialists who keep voting for this and cheering it on, remember this:
You are the ugly guy.
The leaders are the strippers.
Enjoy your lap dance.
Editorial Closing
This op ed reflects my views and my opinions based on the information available at the time of writing. It is not a statement of fact and it should not be treated as such. My opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of SHR Media, its owners, its affiliates, or its hosts.
“Sack Head” Shaun
Shaun is the host of The Edge of Liberty on the SHR Media network and a contributor at TheLoftusParty.com. The opinions expressed in this article are his own and reflect a commitment to primary source research and constitutional literacy.
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