Diana West’s column in the Enid News and Eagle on June 18th gave me pause…
Listen just a moment:
“At what point does it become clear that we no longer inhabit America? When we "press 2 not 1 for English? ... When borders are no more, but the Surveillance State always knows where we are? Ours is the age of dislocation before realization: The United States of America no longer exists."
I certainly identified with her thought. We are charging pell-mell down a path that we know not where it goes! We have an elite class governing us that believe that multi-cultural societies are not only possible, but the "coming thing," the best solution to problems they don’t want to solve.
But history clearly shows that multi-cultural is a Harvard-Princeton-Internationalist illusion. Societies may include more than one cultural stream at a point in time, but within a matter of a few generations, one of those cultures becomes dominant. There may be traces of others left, but one will be dominant.
The culture created in the United States in the first 150 years of the Republic was long the wonder of the world because it offered more to the common man than any other society: more liberty, more freedom (yes, they are different), more opportunity, more autonomy, less interference from those in charge, careful and thorough restraint of government. And the U.S. and her mostly-free citizens amazed the world with their accomplishments. Immigrants flocked here from all over to enjoy our society and its benefits.
But an important distinction needs to be made between then and now: all those immigrants from dozens of other countries and cultures WANTED to be AMERICANS! Not some brand of hyphenated Americans, but mainstream, full-bore Americans. There were no programs by which they were assimilated – just the natural pressure of the boisterous, rollicking American society that was inventing itself day-by-day – based in the bedrock of our invention of the ages: the best system of self-government the world had ever seen: the United States Constitution, which guided the ship of state.
All our government officials swore oaths "to preserve, to protect and to defend" our Constitution above all other duties when assuming office. And they still swear the same oaths.
But guess what? They DON’T DO IT any more!
Here’s how Ms. West puts it: “Instead, they do whatever it takes to beat it, flout it and ignore it. Worse, we the People, let them.”
She’s absolutely right! Over the last 50-60 years, Washington has filled up with hair-splitters and evaders of the law, certain that there is "some way to get this done."
Our president has suggested he wants to "pack" certain parts of our judicial system in order to be able to bend the Constitution in the direction he wants it to lean; many of his minions in executive departments (e.g. our attorney general) do it every day!
There is little respect or appreciation for the Constitution on either side of the aisle in the Congress either – or they’d be raising h--- with the president every day about many of the initiatives of his arm of the government.
We pack in the dissident cultures, ethnic groups, and religions, even while political correctness lets them create little islands of their alien cultures within the American culture – and we call it "extending liberty." But it is not; it is illusion, it is toxicity, to the American society and culture.
If they WANT to be fully Americans, they are welcome. But if they DO NOT, we should shut the doors in their faces. It’s that simple.
We certainly are within our rights to protect our core beliefs and values from outside and alien societies that conflict with our basic beliefs. The Constitution, correctly interpreted and enforced – instead of methodically evaded and manipulated by our government officials for their short-term agendas – will protect us and correct our course that will destroy our Republic.
If ignored and trampled – as is currently the case – we will lose our Constitutional wisdom. It will fade into the background and we will lose our most precious heritage. We will no longer be the light unto the world that our forefathers intended.
