Yes, the United States is a nation of immigrants, but are we
to understand by that that the United States is just the lowest common
denominator of all those people, a harmonious blending of all the nations and
cultures of the world.
Or, is there a particular culture that defines us as a
nation and that we are supposed to teach this culture to our immigrants, and
they are expected to assimilate to it to become an American?
The American experiment is based on a level of human rights
and freedom unparalleled anywhere else in the world. Our Founders fought a war in order to be able
to establish this country with the Constitution that is currently in
place.
The basic idea for American freedom and rights is explained
in our Declaration of Independence [please read this slowly]: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that
all men are created equal (i.e. we don’t believe in kings, a ruling class),
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are life, liberty,, and the pursuit of happiness – that to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed -- that
whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such
form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
It is a safe assumption that no immigrant understands or
believes these things when they come to our country. Why would they? The countries they come from don’t believe in
them, and how would they know what we believe? We don’t even talk about this anymore.
Many of our immigrants we already know will not agree with
these beliefs. Islam, for example, had
been in existence for 1,000 years prior to the founding of our country, and there
is no Muslim country then or now in the world with a Constitution anything like
ours. A Muslim would deny the whole
premise of our Constitution.
We as a nation no longer talk about God-given rights,
because we are told that any mention of God constitutes an unconstitutional
endorsement of religion. So when
millions of immigrants vote in our elections and have no idea of or belief in
what it is that makes the United States what it is, we will eventually lose the
freedoms we fought a war to gain.
This won’t happen suddenly, but gradually as more and more
people vote according to their understanding of rights and not according to our
Founders. I dare say we don’t even teach
these to our own children, given the hostility to anything having to do with
God in our public schools.
We are losing our nation.
Without a war, without a revolution, without anyone even noticing it.
Is this really what we want to do?
