UBI is the result of a fallen empire, this is not something that people are just going to vote for…they are systematically being forced towards it and it has been a gradual yet steady process going on for years.
When your governments started bringing in foreigners, it was to kick-start slavery. Not slavery ran by governments, but ran BY foreigners, slaving their own people. They underpay their own people, because they have no grasp of western culture. This results in a devalued wage, which when combined with a lowered bar of skills to met demand, crumbles the system (think about how many children are currently avoiding school, or not wanting to go to school).
There are already reports of this form of slavery popping up through-out the Anglo world. This has been done intentionally, not to "replace" people but to devalue what it means to "work for a wage".
This is removing all form of passion that is currently installed in workers, by making them no longer trust in "work first, leisure second".
The exact same thing happened in Rome during its fall. A period of decadence occurred (most western areas are going through this right now), and then suddenly no one wanted to work anymore.
Their solution was to provide housing and food for the people, installing a sense of "leisure first". This lead to people volunteering to work, and when combined with events through-out Europe it eventually lead to the Renaissance.
UBI is the very thing that would kick-start people volunteering to BE the ones that implement automation.
It's not designed to only work if automation exists, we already have slavery alive and well in our nations RIGHT NOW.
The next Renaissance will be a technology-driven one. Art will focus on the divine of what man can be when they are no longer burdened by the robotic nature of working low-skill jobs that turn them into inhuman machines that eventually burn out after a small period of time.
The only reason it hasn't been implemented yet, is that history is repeating itself. The pendulum has to swing backwards first, allowing the government just enough time to reverse the immigration policies once there's enough foreigners to devalue the wage.
The intention is not to replace the working population, it's to persuade them to adopt a new system.
Trump will most likely succeed at everything he's promised…but that STILL won't fix much in the long run (just enough jobs to keep his nation from a rate of decline that is too fast to maintain).
As the empire reaches its darkest days, mans view of woman will return to that of dualism. It's already peeking through on websites such as imageboards. We have orbiters worshiping the love of their "waifu's" and collectively voicing that which they think is most virtuous and beautiful, while simultaneously in the very same forum these men still understand the woman's inferiority and their likeliness to that of wanton pleasure seekers..which is why copious porn and cam-whore material is so strongly present.
They aren't just consuming porn for the sake of degeneracy, they are seeking out that which encompasses a realm where they imagine delivering pleasure to multiple women. This would continue onwards as women sing their words of "love" (eg. attention seekers on /r9k/) and it would carry on through a digital Renaissance.
Prove me wrong.