Woke assimilation: Teaching our politicians to hate America
Beto O’Rourke — the losing Texas candidate for the US Senate 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 last week: “This country was founded on white supremacy. And every single 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 President 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.
America 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, noting bullying when she was in school in Arlington, Va., an affluent Washington, DC, 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 peans 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 Washington 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.
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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 Washington 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 US 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 has accused her congressional colleagues of singling her out for demonization.
Anyone who thinks these attitudes are alien to the United States has never been to a modern college campus or watched MSNBC.
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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.
This to me is a direct slap in the face...how dare some idiot the likes of this Somalia scum come into OUR COUNTRY and get elected to OUR GOVERNMENT and think she is a segment of the American elite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The American Elite are the Veterans that have died giving their all for OUR FREEDOMS, and the Veterans that, thank goodness, are back on American Soil after fighting for OUR FREEDOMS...Our Police Officers, local, State, Country and Federal; Our ICE people who are right now on OUR SOUTHERN BORDER trying to keep this scum OUT OF OUR COUNTRY...
And this idiot thinks she's part of OUR COUNTRY??? NO SHE ISN'T AND NEVER WILL BE...where in this article does it say she was Born on American Soil, where does it say that she took the vow to become an American Citizen??? and this low life scum thinks she's better than American Citizens...not in my lifetime she will be and the thing that we should be doing is getting those people rounded up and drop them out of an airplane over Syria without a parachute at 40000 feet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How DARE scum come into OUR COUNTRY and think they are better than we are and yes I stand with Our President and say, ‘GET THE HELL OUT’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What you say is true, but the author of the piece you cited is Rich Lowry, the RAT-FINK editor of the National Review.
Come election time next year, watch this SCUM turn against Trump and start publishing stories from Mitt Romney, Flake, Weld, and posthumous stories from John McCain.
Rich Lowry is only in it for the MONEY. He’s the Organizer of Never Trumper wolves hiding in sheep’s clothing.
Felt like trolling Omar today
Called her office to thanks her for helping get Trump re-elected
Asked Can I send you a check so she and her 9% approval stay in the news?, they said no only to the campaign
I said oh, she committed bigamy and tax fraud I didn’t think she’d mind a campaign violation