“... to wake up the American People again.”
Problem is, it’s becoming more difficult to know just who the ‘American People’ actually are. We have had major demographic shifts, in large measure thanks to the democrats, and we have ceased to be a melting pot. We are more like a cauldron, with lots of different ingredients that just don’t seem to be mixing very well. I’m not talking about race etc.. I don’t care what someone looks like, or where they come from. It’s about the desire to assimilate and become ‘American’. There doesn’t seem to be a national identity anymore.
We have come to have no common language, no
ideology common to us all, no pride as members
of a democratic federal republic, our polis
has been slowly weaned away from these things
in our younger generations. We have been taught
to “Celebrate diversity” to the extent that we
no longer pay a debt of gratitude to that which
tied us together for so long.
My father once said “Attitude is everything”. Perhaps he wasn’t strictly correct, but I think there’s truth in there. Many of this thread’s comments cut to the chase.
I’ve said before that “political correctness” is at the root of this. If we are persuaded not to respect ourselves, not to honor our achievements, the goal of ensuring we fail is much easier to reach. Most people are joiners....they will emulate the prevailing attitude, as to not look out of place.