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-Great Cultural Revolution
Multiculturalism Will Be The Death Of Every Great Society
2022-12-06
[AceOfSpades] ... We cannot have a functioning society if there are no shared goals based on a unified culture. That does not mean that our citizens must reject their origins. Far from it...until a few generations ago it was entirely acceptable to consider oneself an American, but with strong emotional and cultural ties to the homeland, be it Germany or Ireland or Italy or Mexico or The Philippines or Norway, etc.

But the core was American, with enough common cultural norms and ethics that we could look around and say, "Yes, we are America!"

Now of course one is gay or Latinx or a "person of color" or Ghanaian or gender-nonconforming lesbian or Filipino first, and then a pause, and then perhaps "american" with a small "A."

But many (hopefully most) Americans reject that, which is one reason why Donald Trump's aggressive populism resonated with so much of the country. Contrary to the media's protestations, his Americanism is fabulously inclusive, and the voting trends among minorities back that up.

And America seems to be rejecting the most overt attempts to force this sort of mushy-thinking nonsense on us (Disney...I'm looking at you), and there are ways to push back that are, at least in the short-term, bearing fruit. Progressive School boards across America have been rejected by parents who have had enough of pretty much everything the Left has shoved down our children's throats for years. State legislatures are creeping away from the Left's grasp, and there is a small but growing alternative to the captive media.

But is it enough?
Posted by:Skidmark

#2  A historic note of caution: "modern estimations on slave population [for Rome and environs) estimate the figure of more than 2 million by the end of the Republican period." Then it was good-bye Republic, hello Dictatorship.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672   2022-12-06 11:26  

#1  Well yes, that's why it was concocted in the 1st place.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-12-06 09:22  

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