Posted on 07/21/2019 8:54:45 AM PDT by SJackson
. . . on the terms set out by Beto O’Rourke.
Beto O’Rourke, the losing Texas Senate candidate who bootstrapped his way into becoming a losing presidential candidate, had a message for refugees who had come to America: Your new country is a hellhole.
The former congressman told a roundtable of refugees and immigrants in Nashville, Tenn., last week: “This country was founded on white supremacy. And every single institution and structure that we have in this country still reflects the legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression.”
Just in case the newcomers were inclined to believe that they had escaped to the greatest country on Earth, an open, dynamic, generous society that, whatever their struggles now, will afford them opportunities unimaginable back home — Beto was there to tell them of all its sins.
He had made himself into an instrument of woke assimilation.
This is the backdrop of the controversy over Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born left-wing member of Congress whom Donald Trump urged, in particularly noxious tweets, to return to her native country and fix it before presuming to tell us what to do.
It’s a mistake, though, to think that Omar is anything other than on her way to total assimilation, only on the terms set out by Beto O’Rourke.
American has two assimilation problems. One is immigrants feeling only a tenuous connection to America, and getting isolated in ethnic enclaves. The other is immigrants like Omar — and some of her second-generation colleagues — assimilating into the America of identity politics and grievance.
They have learned to speak not just English, but the language of oppression. They understand our system (at least no less than the average officeholder) but hold it in low regard. They know our history, as taught by an instructor cribbing from Howard Zinn.
They may be citizens, but they are certainly outraged victims.
According to a profile in the Washington Post, Omar felt betrayal immediately upon getting to America.
“I arrived at the age of 12 and learned that I was the extreme other,” she explained to the Post, noting bullying when she was in school in Arlington, Va., an affluent Washington, D.C., suburb. “I was black. I was Muslim. I also learned I was extremely poor and that the classless America that my father talked about didn’t exist.”
Somehow, despite all the depredations, she gained a seat in Congress. It wasn’t paeans to her new home that paved her way, but the tropes and priorities of a progressive Left, as you’d expect from a former director of the Women Organizing Women Network.
Omar doesn’t represent a majority-minority district. She started her elected career, as the Post puts it, by getting to know “older peace-and-justice hippies.” She attended Black Lives Matter protests and established relationships with all the left-wing groups in Minneapolis.
Most of these people wouldn’t object to, indeed would welcome and expect, her adversarial posture toward the country where she gained more notoriety and power than the vast majority of the native-born.
Her narrative is the narrative of American malignancy. The Post wrote of her ambush of Trump official Elliott Abrams at a hearing: “For decades people like her had been on the receiving end of U.S. foreign policy. Such people typically get ‘beaten into submission,’ she said. Now, Omar was the one delivering the beating.”
Her default is to blame America first. She explained that local Somali-Americans attempted to join the Islamic State as a function of “systemic alienation.” She contends that she has met American veterans “who say the most horrendous things, who have complete disregard for life.” And she accuses her congressional colleagues of singling her out for demonization.
Anyone who thinks these attitudes are alien to America has never been to a college campus or watched MSNBC. In short, whatever foolhardy things Trump may tweet, Ilhan Omar is not suited to return and fix Somalia, rather to join a segment of the American elite.
Her process of assimilation will not be complete until everyone on Earth is a muslim.
Or dead.
Yup! A real “hellhole” and yet they continue risking their lives and renting other people’s kids to get here. These “refugees” and illegal aliens sure aren’t very smart.
She used our lax punishments and enforcements to cheat the system and take an illegal place in our citizenship. How would she know what it’s like to be an American? It’s like asking a woman wearing a nun costume on Halloween what it’s like to be a sister of the Catholic Church.
This is all not going to end quietly...It’s coming....
I wonder if Lowry fell on his face overreaching for the topic of this article.
How any American with a functioning brain can think of these creatures as anything other than literal enemies is simply beyond me.
Assimilated in Venezuela....or Cuba.
She’s a born hater. As a radical Muslim she was born and raised to hate our Judeo-Christian God foremost, so therefore she hates everything about America and Americans.
And as a radical American-hating Muslim, she is a danger to America. She’s in congress radicalizing other weak-minded susceptible congress people, like AOC and followers, and other socialist useful idiots who say they already hate America because of slavery and capitalism and wish to “fundamentally transform America.”
This is a huge danger. President Trump is absolutely in the right to defend America from America-hating radical Muslim infiltration into the halls of power.
America, love it or leave it!
Omar backed AOC’s assertion and is now running her own riff off that.
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
“Concentration camps”
Why isn’t the media showing us pictures of the horrid conditions in the “concentration camps”?
Why aren’t the politicians on both side aghast at having “concentration camps” in the republic?
Why aren’t the citizens she “represents” or of Texas rioting about the “concentration camps” in the United States of America?
Accomplices.
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
Representation? None. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Gone.
I hope you are right, but I am not confident. She has at least 4 layers of protection.
Wasn’t there a law, until recently, barring Muslims from holding federal elected office?
What do you expect when you allow immigration from a country whose people grow up learning America is their enemy? What do you think they are going to do when they get here? When they concentrate in specific election districts who do you think they will elect?
Bingo!
No such law ever existed!
I wish people would stop saying that.
The law that often gets quoted has nothing to do with Muslims.
That law being?
No one mentions her meeting with Turkish President Erdogan while she was still a Minnesota Representative.
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