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A few things from this clip. I miss Phil Hartman. I forgot Dennis Miller had the HBO show, and wonder if I'm the only one who remembers his late-night show with the Police's Andy Summers as his band leader. And I can't be the one who has Steely Dan stuck in my head today. But more importantly, it shows how long people have been warning of an immigration crisis and how others have attempted (and keep attempting) to silence those people for warning of it.

Hartman was promoting the 1997 HBO movie The Second Civil War, where Hartman played the President of the United States. Beau Bridges played the governor of Idaho, who closed his state's borders to oppose the federal government resettling migrants from Pakistan.

I'm biting off of Wikipedia: "In a future United States, immigration has rapidly increased, resulting in a fractured multicultural society. The Mayor of Los Angeles speaks only in Spanish, Rhode Island is populated mostly by Chinese Americans, and Alabama has a Sikh congressman. Politics have been openly reduced to a matter of catering to various ethnic groups for their votes, and media-fueled polarization has led to widespread anxiety."

If that isn't prophetic enough, here's a summary of Hartman's comments (thanks, Grok):

Can't discuss it without being called racist. The US has the world's most liberal policy: 800k+ enter legally/yr, plus 200-300k illegally. No other country tolerates that influx. Soon $1B+/yr in SS entitlements to immigrants who paid nothing in. Anchor babies get full citizenship & benefits. Chain migration brings whole families. But it's all business—immigrants are consumers buying gas, food, etc., feeding the corporate machine.

The funny thing is, I remember seeing the movie, thinking it was ridiculous, and finding it odd that HBO never aired it again. I also remember watching this Dennis Miller clip when it aired, because I remember "and that's why I'm here to talk to you about the New American Nazi Party" in that classic Phil Hartman delivery. The sad thing is that the rest of what he said didn't register with me at the time, and I wish it did.

There was enough of a crisis brewing — some even date it back to Reagan in 1986 — that a comedian saw the warning signs, AND HBO created a satirical film about the not-too-distant future that was supposed to be dystopian. Yet we -- well, not "we" as much as the left and the media -- spent the last thirty years calling anyone who attempted to discuss that it was an issue racist.

If you are like me and found yourself, in recent times, wondering how we got to where we are, this is how.

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