Los Angeles Democrats have officially revealed their priority list, and rebuilding a city that just went up in flames isn’t on it. Instead, the LA City Council is pushing to allow non-citizens — including illegal immigrants — to vote in city elections. Because when your infrastructure is literally ash and your residents are living in FEMA trailers, the obvious next move is to hand ballots to people who aren’t supposed to be here in the first place.
Your house burned down, your insurance company ghosted you, and your neighborhood looks like a war zone — but hey, at least the guy who jumped the border last month gets to vote for the mayor who let it all happen. Priorities, folks. This is what leadership looks like when the people in charge hate the people they’re supposed to serve.
Here’s what’s actually happening. Democrats on the LA City Council are advancing a measure that would open municipal elections to non-citizen residents. We’re not talking about legal permanent residents who’ve been here twenty years and are working toward citizenship. We’re talking about anyone with a pulse and a mailing address in city limits. Green card holders, visa overstays, people who walked across the border last Tuesday — all of them would get a say in who runs America’s second-largest city.
And the timing. Oh, the timing is just *chef’s kiss* levels of tone-deaf.
Los Angeles just survived — barely — a wildfire season that made national news for weeks. Entire neighborhoods were erased. The city’s emergency response was a catastrophe. Residents are STILL displaced. The power grid is held together with duct tape and good intentions. Water infrastructure failed when people needed it most. Insurance companies are fleeing the state like refugees from the very policies these Democrats created.
So what does the council do? Do they hold emergency sessions on fire prevention? Do they fast-track rebuilding permits? Do they address the fact that their own regulations made it impossible for homeowners to clear brush around their properties?
Nope. They want more voters.
Let’s be honest about what this actually is. It’s not about “inclusion” or “representation” or whatever focus-grouped language they’re going to slap on it. It’s about math. Pure, cynical, electoral math. Democrats have watched their grip on cities like LA get challenged — not by Republicans, mind you, but by their own residents who are fed up with crime, homelessness, and incompetence. The recall of George Gascón wasn’t a fluke. It was a warning shot.
So instead of governing better, they’re importing new voters. It’s the same playbook they’ve run at the federal level for decades, just applied locally with zero subtlety. Can’t win over citizens? Make more voters who aren’t citizens. Problem solved.
We’ve seen this game before. San Francisco tried it with school board elections. New York City flirted with it. Each time, the argument is the same: “These people live here, they pay taxes, they deserve a voice.” And each time, the actual goal is the same: dilute the votes of citizens who might vote against the incumbent machine.
Here’s the thing that drives me crazy. There are actual American citizens in Los Angeles — people who were born here, people who immigrated legally and earned their citizenship, people who’ve paid taxes and followed the rules their entire lives — who just watched their homes burn because their city government couldn’t do its ONE JOB. And now those same city officials want to tell them that their vote is worth exactly the same as someone who showed up last week.
That’s not democracy. That’s a dilution scheme with better PR.
The Constitution doesn’t say “we the people who happen to be nearby.” It says “we the people.” Citizens. The ones who signed up for the deal, who bear the obligations, who serve on juries and pay the full freight. Voting isn’t a participation trophy you get for existing within certain GPS coordinates.
But LA Democrats don’t care about any of that. They care about one thing: staying in power. And if that means handing ballots to non-citizens while actual citizens are sifting through the ashes of their burned-down homes, so be it.
The next time a Democrat tells you they care about “the people of Los Angeles,” remember this moment. They don’t mean you. They mean whoever they can register fast enough to keep the machine running.
Your city is on fire. They’re signing up new voters. That tells you everything you need to know about who they work for — and it isn’t us.