It is only because so many Americans have been conditioned by the media & Leftist academics to be embarrassed in taking pride in their own heritage & lines of descent, that the accident of Senator Obama’s Americanism is not the subject for humor at every dinner table; at the bar in every pub; on vehicles of public transportation; and in a million phone calls by the hour.
***Interesting take, but in today’s political climate this is quickly labeled “racism”.
We must cut the Gordian knot of conditioned reflexes, as a result of what has been going on, or we are going to disappear from the future.
Calling people who value their lines of descent; their common history of shared struggle, triumphs & defeats, with a common identity, culture, etc., nasty sounding names, is really a pathetic attempt to intimidate. It is even more pathetic when a people with common lines of descent, common history, etc., allow themselves to be intimidated.
Much of the rapture over Obama has come from those conditioned in intellectually corrupt classrooms, to feel guilty over having a once proud heritage. The Obama campaign has been fueled in part by this contrived neurotic need to purge an imagined guilt. We have to learn to recognize the difference between a reasoned argument and a conditioned reflex; conditioned as a result of Pavlovian dog training tricks, modified to be useful against human subjects.
The Left has no argument against the right of a people to preserve their identity. They have been trying to destroy the very concept of a nation by substituting brainwashing techniques for reasoned argument; and we have been cooperating by apologizing for the foundations of the concept.