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Culture

For over 50 years, I have been trying to show people, on both the left and the right, the importance of culture to a cohesive, relatively peaceful, relatively successful, relatively prosperous society. My comments are usually received with quiet dismissal.

The politically correct diversity police have led us on to believe that culture isn’t important. That cultures may be different but they are equally preferred. This belies the historic and current observation of world wide cultures: Some of which are basically peacefully providing abundance for their members and others that are barbaric, in constant turmoil, unable to feed its citizens and constantly at war either with itself or with its neighbors.

If you understand this, then you must understand that the United States is in serious trouble from factionalization resulting from the creation of politically competitive cultural groups exacerbated by illegal immigration.

Many argue that we are a nation of immigrants. Some cite the great immigration at the turn of the nineteenth century. They fail to recognize that it was legal, orderly, that to enter this country you had to meet health requirements, have a sponsor, learn English and if you sought citizenship and wanted to vote, you had to learn about our history and rules of governance.

"In the first place we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equity with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

                                                Theodore Roosevelt

                                                 in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919.

Patriotism means to stand by the country, it does not mean to stand by the president.

                                                Theodore Roosevelt

Finally, the political class loves to engage in presentism: Judging the past by the standards of today. No question that slavery was an evil. But it was common in the past and we overcame it despite the fact that it still exists in many parts of the globe today.