Food for thought.
We must remember who we were, not just as defined by our U.S. Constitution, but who we were in our relationship with God and our culture. Not to demean others, but to have a grateful heart to God for what he has given us who are the descendants of Western Civilization, and to not ever be ashamed of that but to once again be proud of it.(Proud, not in a haughty type of way, but in a grateful and gracious way of remembering and keeping alive and bringing back to leadership what is very close to being lost)
(Skousen is a Mormon, I am most definitely not, but his thoughts on political philosophy do not reflect Mormonism at all. Rather, they seem to clarify a lot of ideas that were common knowledge and have fallen into confusion and disarray in our country in the last 100 years.)
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required. Luke 12:48
There you go. That is exactly what the Western civilization is losing; and that is what Venner was desperate to restore.
So how would you describe American identity?