Democrat Incentives

Many people try to either demonize or romantacize politicians, depending on whether they like them or not. However, most politicians can be understood by the simple economic premise that all men seek out their own best interest. Let us apply that premise to Democrat politicians and see if we can come to a conclusion as to why they vote and act the way they do.

What is in a Democrat politician's best interest? To get more votes so he or she can get reelected when the time comes. What policies does he come to in order to get more votes? Let's start with illegal immigration. Aside from the fact that democrats as a whole are less likely to respect the law than their republican counterparts, the condoning of illegal immigration by democrats simply comes down to votes. The more hispanics that come into the country, the more votes democrats receive. Now, these votes may come years down the road as the children born to these illegals come of age, but they are sure votes nonetheless.

How do these politicians get the average American to vote as if illegal immigration is good for our country? They use the most powerful word in the American's vocabulary: racist. There is no word in the history of our country, and perhaps the world, that comes with more power than this word. I could and probably will write a whole blog post dedicated to this one word, but for now I'll just leave it at that. When one speaks out against illegal immigration, he is labelled a racist just for using the word illegal. When the same person takes the next step and points out that illegal immigrants, their children, and their children's children are much more likely than the average citizen to be on welfare, to place unnecessary stress on our public schools by being the poor students that they typically are, to commit crimes against society, to buy and sell drugs, etc., etc.; that person is not only a racist, but a hate mongerer to boot. Nobody wants that label, so few people actually speak the truth about illegal immigration.

What about welfare? Does welfare actually help people as a whole get on their feet and become productive citizens again? No. Again, a simple principle of economics will show us that as poverty becomes more and more appealing (meaning the more welfare we give out), the more people will want to be in poverty. Some may argue that nobody wants to be in poverty, but I beg to differ. A man chooses to be lazy, he chooses to get a low paying job and only work the bare minimum, or (now this is the democrat's dream) he chooses to not work at all and live off of food stamps in government housing for the rest of his life. So as we can see, welfare adds votes to democrats by keeping people in ignorance and poverty, the two biggest boons to the democrat ballot.

To conclude, we can see that democrats are just like any other person; they seek out their own best interest. They are able to appear compassionate and hopeful to the masses by giving out something for nothing, but all they do is create more and more poverty-striken voters. The only way to get people out of poverty is the republican way: he who wishes to eat must work. Or, to put it better, the only way to get people out of poverty is God's way. I think it was He who said, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground..."