So, here's the Democrats' plan: Flood America's southern border with millions of illegal aliens, hook them on government aid and eventually turn them into voters. It can't be more obvious anymore.

 

Use the courts to strike down any attempts to secure the border. Have judges rule against election integrity laws like voter ID or even the commonsense question about citizenship in the 2020 national census. Once the census count is in, grant more congressional districts and federal funds to jurisdictions swelled with illegals.  

 

Meanwhile, prevent Congress from approving money for border security or even to accommodate the massive crowds. Promise free, unlimited health care for everyone, including illegal aliens. On June 27 during the Democratic debate, all the candidates raised their hands to support this insane proposal that is sure to be heard loud and clear south of the border.

 

Having created the crisis by opposing all efforts to address it, Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are making trips to the border for photo ops, lamenting the poor conditions caused by the crush of humanity and blaming the Trump administration for creating "concentration camps."

 

This is like taking a hammer to a store window and then blaming the storekeeper for people getting cut while ransacking the place. And, by the way, when you see those heartbreaking photos like the one of the father and daughter who drowned, keep in mind who's luring these poor people into harm's way.

 

Since October 2018, when the fiscal year began, more than 593,000 illegal aliens have been apprehended at the border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). In May, 132,887 illegals were apprehended. Because of the Democrats' mau-mauing over "family separations," the Border Patrol is encountering a surge of "family units," many comprising non-relatives, including kidnapped children.

 

Some 332,981 of the nearly 600,000 illegals consist of "family units." Because they can neither separate them nor keep them in custody long enough for asylum hearings, the Border Patrol has to release them. Most of them scatter around the country, never to return for their hearings.

 

Under current rates of entry, the United States will be inundated over the course of 12 months by nearly 1 million illegal aliens by the end of the 2019 fiscal year. And you thought the caravans with a few thousand illegals were shocking a couple of years ago?  

 

This is a well-executed and mysteriously funded invasion.

 

Again, this is the Democrats' playbook: Replace American citizens with illegal immigrants in order to turn the nation into a one-party state like California, which has automatic voter registration and millions of illegal residents.  

 

Another tactic is sheer bribery. Want the student vote? Promise to forgive all student loans and stick the taxpayers with the bill. Same for "free" college tuition, "free" child care and "free" health care. Want to juice up the black vote while aggravating racial resentment? Call for taxpayer-funded reparations for slavery.

 

Kamala Harris proposes eliminating private health plans, which now insure 150 million Americans. This would leave no escape from government-controlled medicine. Elizabeth Warren's proposed Accountable Capitalism Act would force large corporations to obtain a federal charter allowing the government to take effective control.

 

The Democratic field also unanimously supports the oxymoronically named Equality Act, the greatest legislative threat to religious liberty and freedom of conscience in American history. That bill, which passed the Democrat-led House but is stalled in the Republican-led Senate, would insert "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" into federal civil rights law. It would criminalize traditional morality, equating it with racism, and wipe out any sex-based distinctions, from restrooms to women's sports teams. Use the wrong pronoun for a man dressed as a woman and go to jail.

 

But wait. There's more. Beto O'Rourke wants all current border barriers torn down and has compared President Trump to the Nazis. He and fellow presidential contender Julian Castro support Nike's withdrawal of a patriotic shoe with Betsy Ross' 13-star American flag on it, calling the flag "hurtful." That flag was hanging prominently at Barack Obama's second inauguration. What a racist.

 

Mr. Castro, perhaps trying to outdo Mr. O'Rourke, calls for decriminalizing illegal entry into the United States. Democrats also support "sanctuary cities" where officials refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This free pass has allowed thousands of criminal illegal aliens, including MS-13 gang members, to go free and commit more crimes.

 

The Democrats have moved so far left you have to wonder whether they've abandoned the effort to persuade "everyday" Americans to join them and are counting on something else to ensure victory.

 

As they flood key states with illegals, they're also trying to eliminate the Electoral College via the Popular Vote Interstate Compact. If they succeed, they can stuff ballot boxes in Democratic strongholds like New York, California and Chicago, and not worry about the rest of the country.

 

In late June, the Communist Party USA's convention embraced Democratic positions. A pre-convention article on the CPUSA website called on "party members to place the struggle for racial, gender, and sexual orientation equality at the forefront of their work." The party is expected to endorse whichever candidate the Democrats nominate.

 

The CPUSA's ultimate goal has not changed: Overthrow our self-governing republic and replace it with an atheistic Marxist regime by any means necessary -- including mass illegal immigration and sexual anarchy.

 

Sound familiar?

 

Robert Knight is a contributor to The Washington Times.

The conceit of our age is that we can alter reality at a whim. We're really that smart and powerful.

 

We not only can control the planet's weather, but we can defy God's essential design for life, reflected in nature and cultures trillions of times a day.

 

This being Pride Month, we're all supposed to take pride in any and all departures from the normal, so it might be worth a look at where that will take us.

 

Lacking the sheer muscularity of the American reflex toward liberty, Great Britain, along with other Western European nations, is venturing into thought control at a more rapid pace than our own cultural Marxists are steering us.

 

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) of the United Kingdom, for example, has issued guidelines prohibiting ads that "play up roles deemed more feminine or male, as well as derogatory messages around body image."

 

Citing an online petition objecting to a subway ad featuring a bikini-clad model asking, "Are you beach body ready?" the ASA came down on the advertiser like Godzilla's foot on Bambi. It wasn't the immorality of sexualizing the female body that bothered them. It was because the ad conveyed inequality.

 

Gender stereotypes "can contribute to inequality in society with costs for all of us," explains Guy Parker, the ASA's chief executive. ASA's guidelines, which took effect on June 14, say that "attractive" people can still be featured, but that "ads should avoid mocking people for not conforming to gender stereotypes, including in a context that is intended to be humorous [the] "it's a joke" defence probably won't be enough to convince the ASA that there isn't a problem under the new rule."

 

"Advertising that links physique and body image to a successful romantic or social life" is also banned, The Washington Post writes. "As are ads that belittle men for doing stereotypical 'female' tasks."

 

Well, that would put the kibosh on a lot of American TV ads. Many show helpless men coming around to their wife's or girlfriend's superior point of view, which centers on buying some product. Some of those actors are getting really good at smiling sheepishly.

 

Advertisers could put the shoe on the other foot, showing women cutely failing at "male" tasks only to succeed with the aid of the product being advertised. But such depictions are now verboten. To make us all the same, men have to be denigrated.

 

Our cultural masters want to make a religion out of sameness in the name of equality, and it usually comes at the expense of whatever is natural, normal or good. The hyper-sensitive ASA, for example, on Thursday issued a notice urging companies to promote "gay pride," which not everyone might appreciate.

 

During the early 20th century, G.K. Chesterton lamented "the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal."

 

Which brings us to our modern culture, in which "equality" has morphed into a trump card over all other considerations, including First Amendment liberties. In the name of equality, utterly unequal situations are dictated that violate truth and fairness. Think of the trans "girls" beating out actual girls in track events, which has, blessedly, triggered lawsuits in Connecticut.

 

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal," Aristotle wrote in the Third Century B.C. Doing so is to lie. But worse is forcing others to lie. As author Jennifer Roback Morse says, "If the government can make you say, 'Bruce Jenner is a woman,' they can make you say anything."

 

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical," Thomas Jefferson wrote in the original draft of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.

 

For years, atheist, racialist and pansexual activists have lied to us about their true goal. They don't want tolerance. They want to replace our Judeo-Christian culture with a socialist version of Sodom and Gomorrah populated by easily manipulated identity groups.

 

In the name of "equality" they insist on wiping away any reminders of our country's family-oriented laws, its historic figures or its religious heritage. Just this week, an Alaskan town fearing legal action opened its borough assembly meeting with a "prayer" to Satan.

 

The U.S. Supreme Court, which is supposed to be a bulwark against threats to our constitutional republic, has itself been complicit, opening the floodgates of obscenity, abortion and faux marriage.

 

But the court did get it right with the Masterpiece Cakeshop case last year, and partly right in another bakery case last week. On Thursday, the court rejected an atheist group's demand to tear down the 40-foot Bladensburg Cross at a Maryland intersection where it was erected in 1925 to honor 49 local soldiers killed in World War I.

 

If the court keeps up its rediscovery of common sense, perhaps the concept of "equality" will be restored from enforced "sameness" to its original meaning - without the destructive notion that all behavior and ideas are equally valid.

 

Robert Knight is a contributor to The Washington Times.