Is America a melting pot or a stew?

July 2, 2015 | Vanity

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Confederate flag is in the news -- being called a symbol of hate by the Left while at the same time the White House is emblazoned with Rainbow flag colors in their celebration that people can love and marry anyone. I cannot wait for 2017 -- to be rid of this destructive, evil administration.

I grew up on Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin (my mother was raised outside of Milwaukee). I moved to Florida around my junior high school years (a growing transplant state but with with deep South roots in the center regions of the state) and stayed through high school.

I graduated from college in Georgia and experienced all the emotions and heritage deeply felt in a Southern state.

I've lived in the West - all over Arizona (inc liberal loving Flagstaff).

I've lived in Maryland and Virginia for various spans of time.

I live in Texas and probably will die here.

I love the rich tapestry of the United States of America. TV has leveled out a lot of our regionalness and accents. People from all states and from different ethnic and racial backgrounds have served together (and died together); serving in our military has helped groups understand and learn about our differences and our similarities.

Over the years I've driven across the country, visited most all of the American Revolution and Civil War battlefields, Indian battlefields, Texas battlefields, along with U.S. military installations established on our soil, along our coasts. These places are important to our history. Understanding history is important to our future. A lot of people want to remove history, undermine our individualism and discredit a bonding nationalism -- eliminate it from our American bloodstream and memories.

America is alive and well but the Left wants to divide, so they keep trying experiments.

When LBJ's Great Society reached out, it took individual's by the throat (not with a helping hand) to entrap them in generational dependency. A lot of Blacks moved North where welfare was enticing them to go. The bigger the pay-out, the bigger the draw. Now if you say "inner city" or "urban" you're labeled a racist to shut you up and deflect criticism about how welfare has destroyed the Black family (now it's guns and suburbs who are to be blamed for what welfare has wrought). Welfare has found it's way into all liberal enclaves (all ethnic, racial and age groups), weakening our nation.

I say, look to the "Charlestons" to see America, not to the "Baltimores."

We're told that 4th of July parades (with the Stars and Stripes) and small town celebrations make people more conservative (like that's a bad thing). We see that the rainbow flag is being paraded and celebrated, that the Mexican flag is encouraged and promoted; this is done by the Left to stir up emotions and cause disquiet among us.

Around the time the "Great Society" was moving forward, Vietnam spawned the Hippie culture and Leftist activism that found a nurturing home in academia. "Green" bloomed. We're witnessing the fruits of their labor in the several generations indoctrinated under their toolage.

Big Education has informed Big Government and supplied the muscle of Big Media -- they have generated the studies, graduated the ideologues, and employed and protected socialists who preach anti-American hate.

Big Education has pushed anti-American, pro-socialist ideas in all disciplines - dictatorships = good, capitalism = bad is the theme. Everything has been politicized.

Big Education tells us that men are predators, whites are privileged and that there is never enough money spent on education.

Christians are free game, Muslims, gays and thug behavior are off limits --- and you can't just be "okay" with that, you must enthusiastically cheer it or you're marked as a bigot, racist, homophobe.

Now it's in vogue to "self identify" as being black, as choosing another gender, deciding to be an Indian -- pick your pleasure.

I believe that a majority of Americans (all stripes) want to live free but they need to understand that the hyphenating of Americans into grievance groups (and appealing to their worst impulses) only opens the door to more laws and dictates that hands power to federal overseers, which in the end shrink their futures and freedoms.

The Left wants us to live in a constant state of fear (about each other, about the "climate," about our health -- fill in the blank).

How do you see the United States, united or divided? A melting pot or a stew?

Happy 4th of July!

Fly the Flag.

God Bless America (land that I love).

United We Stand.

[Clemenza]

If America were a true melting pot, black Americans would have absorbed into the general population like they have in Puerto Rico and Brazil.