Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet.
Apple pie is alright. Hot dogs are contributing to an increasing American obesity epidemic. Baseball is made up of a record number of foreigners. And Chevrolet is now Government Motors. You're welcome for the bailout by the way.
The problem is, America seems to have an identity crisis. Moving beyond the fact that the above quintessential icons of traditional Americana seem to have lost their luster, the real problem is that there seems to be a dying out of the common American identity.
Nations are defined by their borders, their language, and their culture. Our vast southern border is non existent, our language is not spoken by the new immigrant class, and our culture is so diverse it has no identity whatsoever. It is also perverse.
The traditional characteristics of America are fading away into the whisps of time. No more is there a common morality and spirituality held in the Christian religion and no more is there the stable family run by a mother and a father. Where morality and religion were once part of the American identity, immorality and secularism now are. Billy Graham is now Billy Maher and the Bible is now ridiculed while homosexuality is the new norm. Along racial lines, just as the era of the Arab Muslim has come upon us in Europe, so is the era of the Hispanic in America. Radical feminists have caused both of these inevitable demographic phenomenons by indoctrinating Western women in the art of refraining from childbearing. The "browning" of America is inevitable and within fifty years, if we still have a country, the European American will no longer be the face of the nation. And no more is there the rugged American individualism of Daniel Boone, and Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. That trait is gone in every way imaginable.
While culture and ethnicity do matter, it isn't something to dwell on. I don't salivate over a cartoonish version of America where everyone is a white, upstanding, Christian cowboy, who eats nothing but BBQ and apple pie. I enjoy and welcome the ethnic delights our diverse population has bestowed upon this country. And I really like Hispanic food!
So what does it really mean to be an American? Surely, it is more than just baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. It moves beyond these superficial icons, which are dying out anyway, to a shared philosophy that is deeply, uniquely American: the concept of limited government and individualism. This is an American concept, borne from the tumultuous Revolution in a time when monarchs and dukes and barons were the law. The Mexican born Los Angeles shop owner has just about as much in common with the Indiana farmer as an Aussie has with a Brazilian. They are culturally and racially divided. But if he can hold dear the sacred truths of individual liberty and freedom from government, he is an American in every sense.
While cultural and racial changes are big transformations, the area where America really has an identity crisis is in shared vision. The nation is polarized, between those who desire to bring about a new era of failed European style socialist government and those who desire limited government as the Framers of the Constitution intended. This is a divide more important and more impacting than any racial demographic changes or cultural changes. In fact, the idea of limited government is a very part of our culture. It is what makes us who we are as Americans. The progressive movement that wishes to change the very soul of the nation by implementing crushing government that strips the liberty from the people and turns them into European serfs sucking on the tit of the state, are less American than the Mexican born LA shop owner who believes in the concepts that are truly, uniquely American: individualism and freedom from government.
This is where America truly has an identity crisis and I would prefer a future America of brown skinned freedom lovers who love the Constitution and limited government, than a nation of white Berkeley liberals who think government is the answer to everything.
Apple pie is alright. Hot dogs are contributing to an increasing American obesity epidemic. Baseball is made up of a record number of foreigners. And Chevrolet is now Government Motors. You're welcome for the bailout by the way.
The problem is, America seems to have an identity crisis. Moving beyond the fact that the above quintessential icons of traditional Americana seem to have lost their luster, the real problem is that there seems to be a dying out of the common American identity.
Nations are defined by their borders, their language, and their culture. Our vast southern border is non existent, our language is not spoken by the new immigrant class, and our culture is so diverse it has no identity whatsoever. It is also perverse.
The traditional characteristics of America are fading away into the whisps of time. No more is there a common morality and spirituality held in the Christian religion and no more is there the stable family run by a mother and a father. Where morality and religion were once part of the American identity, immorality and secularism now are. Billy Graham is now Billy Maher and the Bible is now ridiculed while homosexuality is the new norm. Along racial lines, just as the era of the Arab Muslim has come upon us in Europe, so is the era of the Hispanic in America. Radical feminists have caused both of these inevitable demographic phenomenons by indoctrinating Western women in the art of refraining from childbearing. The "browning" of America is inevitable and within fifty years, if we still have a country, the European American will no longer be the face of the nation. And no more is there the rugged American individualism of Daniel Boone, and Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. That trait is gone in every way imaginable.
While culture and ethnicity do matter, it isn't something to dwell on. I don't salivate over a cartoonish version of America where everyone is a white, upstanding, Christian cowboy, who eats nothing but BBQ and apple pie. I enjoy and welcome the ethnic delights our diverse population has bestowed upon this country. And I really like Hispanic food!
While cultural and racial changes are big transformations, the area where America really has an identity crisis is in shared vision. The nation is polarized, between those who desire to bring about a new era of failed European style socialist government and those who desire limited government as the Framers of the Constitution intended. This is a divide more important and more impacting than any racial demographic changes or cultural changes. In fact, the idea of limited government is a very part of our culture. It is what makes us who we are as Americans. The progressive movement that wishes to change the very soul of the nation by implementing crushing government that strips the liberty from the people and turns them into European serfs sucking on the tit of the state, are less American than the Mexican born LA shop owner who believes in the concepts that are truly, uniquely American: individualism and freedom from government.
This is where America truly has an identity crisis and I would prefer a future America of brown skinned freedom lovers who love the Constitution and limited government, than a nation of white Berkeley liberals who think government is the answer to everything.
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