Excellent and so very true. I see it played out daily at the gas station where I get coffee many mornings. White’s hold the door open for blacks, black’s say thank you and good morning. Blacks hold the door for whites and whites say thank you and good morning.
same for Hispanics, men, women, Chinese and whoever else happens to walk by.
The front door at the Wawa gas station is the great equalizer and microcosm of America.
We will, because we must MAGA.
HOORAY Prager!
One of my favorite books is Dinesh D’Souza’s “What’s So Great About America”, and he covers this in detail.
What it boils down to is, you can come to America, get your citizenship, and...to everyone else already in America...you can BE an American.
You can’t go to Japan, get your citizenship and “be Japanese”. That would be ludicrous to other Japanese. You can get French citizenship, but...you won’t be “French”.
And so on.
But here, you can be an American, because it is an idea, not what is in your blood.
A current problem is, we SHOULD be a multi-ethnic country with a common culture, and that is what we strove for in the past when immigrants “assimilated”, the “Melting Pot”.
The Left wants a multi-cultural country where common culture is less important than tribal culture, and that is s corrosive poison.
Ive been listening to Prager for over 20 years. Trump should have him as one of his top advisors.
Great article by Prager.
I first realized America was exceptional when I’d see US military aircraft in the sky, and ask my USAAC vet dad, “Do the German and Jap planes still fly?” And he said, “No.”
That evening I thought: "Only in America". A Catholic priest extolling the virtues of his Jewish parishioner who loves trusting his kids to an Indian Sikh doctor.
Good old Dennis, still selling the America Is A Proposition Nation stuff, with the theory that vast numbers from the 3rd world aren’t altering the culture of the United States.
It’s amazing because he’s lived in SoCal since 1976, and you’d have to be blind not to have seen the massive change in California. Well he’s not blind, but he does travel in a bubble, from his Westside LA digs to wherever he is speaking. And like many former liberals, he’s capable of deluding himself. A nice guy, but in some ways still the clueless kid from Brooklyn wearing blinders.
Dennis was a big fan of Dubya’s amnesty attempt. In fact I’ve long suspected that both Dennis and Michael Medved were unofficial advisers to Dubya. Dennis often said that his idea of a ‘solution’ to California’s massive illegal alien problem was to massively increase the number of legal immigrants that we allow in each year. Yeah, because it’s been such a good idea to drive Californians out of this state and replace them with the imports who have voted in current crew of revolutionary socialists.
But maybe there is a glimmer of reality intruding on Dennis’ Panglossian immigration fantasy; this is something entirely new in Dennis world:
“The other threat comes from those immigrants who do not come to America to become American but to use America for its financial, medical and educational benefits while remaining attached to their own culture. “
Only liberals use race, gender, sickness, morals, and a few hundred ways being invented daily, to separate us from each other. Diversity establishes boundaries, and forces acceptance. Our country was not founded under that idea. And until the people realize that working together willingly is for the good of all and not based upon forced acceptance of different identities to get there, we will have tools for them to use. And they don’t care who they harm in their use.
rwood
Dennis Prager is a national treasure.