That Precious Jewel – American Citizenship

I am an unabashed American. That’s an American without hyphens. Snowflake objections to our past don’t concern me. I’m proud of it all. All men are born equal, but not all nations. America is #1, every other nation is not, and that is that.

I look down my nose just a little at foreigners, not as 1930s Untermensch, but more in pity along the lines of our homegrown 1980s P.J. O’Rourke. Americans are simply unequally better than the rest of the world. Thanks to extra-ordinary good luck, I hold a jewel that much of the rest of humanity wants and I won’t give up: my share of the American community, my citizenship.

Unlike life in class-conscious countries, I needn’t avert my gaze downward when talking to anyone. The homeless American can stand next to the President and look at him squarely in his eyes. We don’t curtsey or genuflect to anyone but God. My attitude makes for swagger. From Old-Glory and Ronald Reagan t-shirts to a MAGA lawn sign, they all mark me as someone who loves his country and is covetous to keep it. As if my t-shirts didn’t send a strong enough signal, I enjoy the occasions when I’m rhetorically confronted by Leftists. For like-minded patriots, always remember that you have the advantage in defending what you know and love. The typical Leftist dirtbag doesn’t know what he’s talking about; why study what you hate? I wouldn’t, and neither do they.

My bedrock culture is that of our Founders and Framers. That includes Christianity. It’s from the Christian tradition we know are all men born equal. We don’t do evil in God’s name; we do good.

Now, I’m not against giving anyone an equal chance at anything including American citizenship. But that means the immigrant doesn’t just pass a multiple-choice civics test; he also drops his old intellectual baggage, and I mean all of it. Was he a modern-day peasant or serf in his old country? If so, I want to know for sure that he can live in liberty and resist every Leftist effort to reduce him once again to subservience.

We protect what we love, and discard that which we don’t. Long ago I happened to read some Charles De Montesquieu that stuck with me. He wrote that the first purpose of education in a republic is to teach love of country. This isn’t necessary in authoritarian or monarchal regimes where the slave or subject need only do as he’s told. But, in republics, where the citizen is the sovereign and along with fellow citizens are responsible for protecting their liberties, they must first love their country.

Tell this to a democrat and watch a toddler meltdown. Not just immigrants, but every native-born schoolkid must learn to covet America. Only America will take anyone in; anyone who drops their old tribal or hierarchal attitudes and assimilates into the wonder of American culture is welcome.

All cultures are not equal. Want to be Japanese? Forget it. They don’t allow it and I don’t want to be Japanese anyway.

Here’s another admission. I give a cold eye to muslims, and especially muslim women covered head to foot. It isn’t a sign of virtue or chastity. Every islamic symbol is a single-finger “up yours” to America. In contravention of the Third Commandment, these people do evil in their god’s name. Just as I can never become Japanese, devout muslims will never drop their intellectual baggage and embrace America.

Review the Preamble to our Constitution. We have a duty to pass the Blessings of Liberty down to our posterity! There’s neither love of country nor liberty under sharia. Yes, I’m an unhyphenated American nationalist, proud that his country protects individual rights like no other nation in history, but there’s no more right to practice sharia than there is to follow the bylaws of MS-13.

Sit down pajama boys. My America will always be that of John Wayne, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. I’ll continue to fight all Marxist efforts to soil, steal or diminish my inestimable jewel, American citizenship.

2 posted on 05/31/2026 2:32:52 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)

The more I learn about Islam , the less I like it. It is like the ultimate mind herpes.

5 posted on 05/31/2026 2:53:42 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)

I’m one of those old and getting older Viet/Cold War vets.
I remember Jane Fonda:s Communist Day at the Air War Range in North Vietnam. I remember John Kerry ( whoservedinVietnam donchaknow), throwing his decorations over a fence and joining the Communist Veterans for Peace.

America needs to bring back classes on citizenship, civics , and why, IMHO, after three years in SouthEast Asia, there is no place in the world, I would rather be. I’ve seen the Eastern, Western, and Southern shores.

How is this a “vanity” posting? The author of the writing appears to be the owner of ArticleVBlog.com. Is he blog-pimping as “Jacquerie” on Free Republic?

7 posted on 05/31/2026 6:45:41 PM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union to get paid for loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)

8 posted on 05/31/2026 7:15:29 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS. )

Here’s another admission. I give a cold eye to muslims, and especially muslim women covered head to foot.

Islam, particularly as aided and abetted by the Western Left, is more a political-social ideology than it is a religion. It is 7th century desert marxism

We should have no scruples about banning it and deporting those who practice it.

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