Turn ’em into poverty-stricken dependent slaves and you will get their votes forever. Or what is known apparently as “The Curley Effect”. Apparently, Obama is a past master.

The Curley effect (named after its prototype, James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston in the first half of the 20th century) is a political strategy of “increasing the relative size of one’s political base through distortionary, wealth-reducing policies.” Translation: A politician or a political party can achieve long-term dominance by tipping the balance of votes in their direction through the implementation of policies that strangle and stifle economic growth. Counterintuitively, making a city poorer leads to political success for the engineers of that impoverishment.

It may only have been discovered by accident, but you do have to think this may well explain many things that are otherwise not all that clear. But it also requires a population that are happy to become poverty-stricken dependent slaves which does in many ways explain a good deal of otherwise inexplicable parts of policy, like the mass migration of millions of unskilled non-workers that is now found supported by every party of the left.