The Broken Compass

By Jennifer Zeiter

(Originally published in the Laguna Beach Independent a letter-to-the-editor in response to another LTE; it has been edited as a blog.)

Democrats today have broken moral compasses.

They express more pity for criminal illegal aliens than for the hardworking Americans who foot the bill. Our schools, ER rooms, housing, prisons, and social safety nets are bursting at the seams—not because of Americans, but because tens of millions of illegals have invaded with no intent to become citizens, assimilate, obey our laws or support themselves. It’s not compassion to ask Americans to sacrifice so others illegally here can skip the line, get free housing, food, education and healthcare. It’s an injustice, unsustainable and will destroy America. The invasion is orchestrated to game the census count, providing more congressional seats, for more failed Democrat policies killing our cities.

We are a country of laws, including legal immigration. When ICE officers are attacked, their families doxed, and federal agents are called "Nazis" for enforcing the law and doing their jobs, we have a serious problem. When the National Guard is finally deployed to protect property, curtail riots and violence, and enforce the law, it should be applauded, not demonized. The real threat isn't the presence of boots on the ground enforcing laws—it's the leadership vacuum of the one-party Democrat rule in CA that made their deployment necessary.

Many progressives cheer the rise of radical socialist candidates like Zohran Mamdani while ignoring the economic carnage they leave in their wake. They say Mamdani won “in the most Jewish city in America,” forgetting that winning a niche Assembly district is not the same as a citywide mandate. Terrifyingly ironic that liberal Jews would vote for someone who would applaud their extinction.

NY Progressives now openly argue that “white neighborhoods must pay” and earnings should be capped. Rent stabilization, Section 8 saturation, and punitive regulations have gutted rental markets in NY, stagnating values. When half your housing stock is price-controlled, no one invests. Los Angeles is headed there, too. That’s not a housing solution, it’s a poverty trap. Keep the masses poor and dependent on the government. Take away the means of production, demonize capitalism.  Socialism 101 always fails. Read history.

Democrats believe California represents the “resistance.” But hundreds of millions of Americans see it as a warning: skyrocketing homelessness, unaffordable housing, crumbling infrastructure, uncontrolled immigration, unchecked crime and billions unaccounted for or wasted. If that’s the model for America’s future, count us out. What happened to Europe? It’s crumbling under the boots of globalists and masses of culturally destructive immigrants. We don’t need lectures about compassion from people who refuse to acknowledge the human and economic cost of their own failed policies. We certainly don’t need to be told we’ve “lost the plot” by the very people who cheer burning cities, attacking law enforcement, looting and collapsed borders.

America isn’t perfect. But it's not broken beyond repair, yet. Most Americans still know what’s right—and they are awake, not woke.