If you don’t know who Becca Balint is, you have been blessed in life so far. However, that blessing is now coming to an end.
Becca Balint is a U.S. representative from the state of Vermont. She is a Democrat who calls herself progressive and she bills herself as an “openly LGBTQ” person, whatever that means (she’s actually just a garden variety lesbian but I guess the alphabet sounds more emphatic). She’s married to an opera singer.
She started her career in politics in the Vermont State Senate, where she mainly fought gun ownership. And, as you might imagine from a liberal of this caliber, she holds a degree from Harvard (it’s in education, though).
Her grandfather died during the Holocaust, and her father emigrated to the United States in 1957. Balint, like so many in our Congress, was not born here. She was born on a military base in Heidelberg, grew up in New York, and moved to Vermont in 1994. Among her past jobs was rock-climbing instructor.
Although Vermont has very few illegals, Balint is a vociferous champion of illegal immigration which she, in typical Democrat fashion, conflates with legal immigration. Sometimes you have to go to an Ivy League college to be this stupid.
Vermont is home to an estimated population of 29,000 foreign-born residents, which is about 4.5% of the state’s population. But this includes anyone born outside the United States (which would include Balint herself). This 29,000 figure includes legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, and even citizens born outside the United States. It is estimated that fewer than 5,000 truly illegal immigrants call Vermont home. (Be careful if you research this, many sites and even AI will tell you 29,000 illegals reside in Vermont; that’s not true. There are 29,000 foreign-born people in Vermont, of whom an estimated 5,000 are illegal.)
On May 28, 2025, at a town hall in Newport, Vermont on May 28, 2025, Becca Balint arrived in her most unfashionable lesbian footwear (ever notice lesbians always wear flat ugly shoes?), eager to talk about Trump, by which I suspect she meant to accuse him of every crime under the sun. During the townhall, somebody asked her about illegal immigration. Here is what she said:
“We know that our economy is completely bound up in immigration and migrant labor. And, of course, we have come to a place in Congress where it is no longer a political issue, but we see it as an existential issue for the country. If we don’t have avenues for people to come here legally, to work or to build a home here, I’m going to be really crude right now, we’re not going to have anybody around to wipe our asses. We don’t have enough people in our country now to fill the jobs we have right now.”
I normally would not use such crude vernacular here, but I have to quote Balint directly so you understand just who we are dealing with. This is a highly educated Democrat woman with a seat in the House of Representatives. She should be able to speak clearly and with dignity. She should be able to behave herself like a respectable person. She talks like a rowdy third-grade boy.
But this quote is important, because it reveals the heart of a typical Democrat toward immigrants—legal or illegal. For a Democrat, immigrants exist solely to be the new slave-class in a Democrat progressive plantation. The only function she can imagine for a foreign-born person (and she’s one herself) is tending to the anal hygiene of obviously better bred, better educated, and clearly superior people. She thinks that some of these low-level people are only worthy of work involving the tending to her rectal hygiene. Most normal people do this sort of work themselves, but most normal people are not progressive Democrats.
I cannot even imagine a “job” that involves wiping up an able-bodied person. But Balint surely can. It’s the first thing that popped into her mind! She has apparently thought about this before.
Immigration is not a roundabout pathway to re-instituting slavery under a new name. Immigration should be a legal process that allows foreigners to gain citizenship in the United States, providing they can meet the criteria. That means vetting and application processes and background checks. And once they’re in, these immigrants should have the same education, the same opportunities, and get the same treatment as everyone else.
I want legal immigrants to enjoy all of the benefits of America, the same benefits I enjoy as a native-born citizen. I also don’t want illegal immigrants to skirt the process or Washington to incentivize deseparate people to skirt the process.
We can’t say immigrants—legal or illegal—exist solely to take care of Rep. Balint when she goes to the toilet.
But how many other Democrats have argued that we need immigrants to tackle the hard and low-paying work they imagine is despicable. Democrats often say we need immigrants to pick our crops. (These Democrats haven’t been on many farms—most of that work is automated now!) Democrats will rail that we need immigrants to work in slaughterhouses or construction sites or do the work that “real Americans” (privileged wealthy white Democrats) won’t do. In other words, we need slave labor, but we’ll just call it “immigrant labor.”
That’s how slavery started. In the bad old days in the American South, they had an agrarian economy based largely on cotton. Way back then, they didn’t have machines to pick cotton—growing cotton and bringing it to market was labor-intensive work. So they “imported” people who would do that. They treated these workers as subhumans and called the system slavery. Democrats were the slave-holders without exception up to the end of the Civil War, and when slavery was outlawed, Democrats all sounded like Becca Balint: “But who will pick the cotton?”
Balint’s remark is unncessarily vulgar, but Democrats tend to be rude, crude, and downright lewd. I have trouble quoting them sometimes since I dislike talking like a crackhouse denizen. But I shared her offensive remark to underscore the terrible hostility Balint shows toward other humans she deems unworthy of any work except to attend to her toileting.
This is the real Democrat party. When they tell you who they are, believe them.
You're absolutely right but that shouldn't surprise anyone.
The DemocRATic Party has always been the party of slavery and I can prove it.
Who controlled Congress when the Jim Crow laws were passed?
When the Black Codes were enacted?
Who started the KKK?
Who kept the KKK running into the 60s?
DemocRATS.
In fact, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858, Senator Stephen Douglas (a Democrat) stated: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”. Douglas became the Democratic Party’s 1860 Presidential nominee.
In 1862, President Lincoln (a Republican) signed the bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia. In Congress, 99% of Republicans had voted yes, 83% of Democrats had voted no.
Also in 1862, over unanimous Democrat opposition, a Republican Congress passed the Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”.
In 1865, Republicans passed the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery unanimously – against near unanimous Democratic opposition. .
In 1866, a Republican Congress overrode Democrat President Johnson’s veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans.
In 1866, the US House passed the Republican sponsored 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens, with 100% of Democrats voting no. The Senate passed the amendment with 94% of Republicans voting yes and 100% of Democrats voting no.
The 15th Amendment (granting the right to vote regardless of color) was passed by Congress in 1869 with 98% of Republican supporting it and 97% of Democrats opposing it.
The Democratic Party fought every piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860′s to the 1960′s that REPUBLICANS sponsored. Democrats even fought anti-lynching laws (it was called “The Klan Act”), and when the Democrats regained control of Congress in 1892, they passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned the civil right laws enacted by Republicans earlier.
Furthermore, it was Republicans who founded the NAACP and most of the historical black colleges. It was Eisenhower, a Republican, who established the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, enforced the desegregation of the military, sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate the schools (using the 101st airborne), and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education (which ended school segregation).
The 1960 Civil Rights Act (signed into law by a Republican) had to survive a five-day filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats. Robert Byrd, a former KKK clansman who rose to the ranks of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops, conducted a 14-hour filibuster against the bill. He then voted unsuccessfully, along with 22 other Senate Democrats, including Al Gore Sr, against the act.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act (proposed by LBJ) passed the House with a higher percentage of Republicans supporting it than Democrats. Without Republicans the bill would have failed. In the Senate, almost a third of Democrats voted against the legislation (compared to just 18% of Republicans), and the man The NYTimes said was "instrumental" in getting the bill passed was a REPUBLICAN.
It was Senate Republican Everett Dirksen who overcame Democrat efforts to block the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Eventually, 94% of Senate Republicans voted for that legislation, while 27% of Democrats opposed it. Why did so many Democrats oppose it? For one thing, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished literacy tests devised by Democrats to prevent blacks from voting.
Democrat Senator William Fulbright, who Democrats held in the highest esteem, was kept in office till 1974. Yet Fulbright was one of 99 Democratic Congressmen to sign the Southern Manifesto in 1957 declaring that states had the right to segregate the races (only 2 Republicans signed that).
In 1982, it was President Ronald Reagan who signed the 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act. And it was President George H. W. Bush who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
Democrats kept Robert Byrd, who publicly was still using the N-Word in the 2000s, in the Senate until his death. They named him their "conscience” and the “soul” of the Senate. In Byrd's eulogy, Bill Clinton claimed Byrd only joined the KKK to get elected … which is demonstrably false. In 1952, he claimed that “After about a year [in the KKK], I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." Nine years prior to 1952 would be 1943. But in 1946 Byrd wrote a letter to the group's Imperial Wizard stating "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see it's rebirth in West Virginia."
Bryd also lied when he claimed his membership in the Klan was about excitement and anti-communism. In 1945, he wrote a letter to segregationist Theodore Bilbo, the democRAT Senator from Mississippi, stating that that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side" and that "rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
DemocRATS are the party of slavery.
Robin Williams referred to lesbians as women in comfortable shoes. Good essay.