Posted on 05/28/2021 5:51:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
After nine people were shot to death by a public transit worker, who then killed himself in San Jose, the latest mass murder in America, California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke for many on the eve of this Memorial Day weekend.
"What the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell is wrong with us?"
Good question. Indeed, it seems that the country is coming apart.
In May, Congress, to address a spate of criminal assaults on Asian Americans, enacted a new hate crimes law to protect them.
May also witnessed a rash of assaults on Jewish Americans to show the attackers' hatred of Israel and support for the Palestinians in the Gaza war.
The terms "racist" and "racism" are now commonplace accusations in political discourse and a public square where whites are expected to ritually denounce the "white privilege" into which they were born.
In the year since the death of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter "Defund the Police!" campaign, the shootings and killings of cops and citizens in our great cities have skyrocketed.
In March, and again in April, 167,000 immigrants were caught crossing our southern border illegally. The invaders are now coming not only from Central and South America but also from Africa, the Islamic world and the largest and most populous continent, Asia. And their destiny may be to replace us.
For as the endless invasion proceeds, native-born Americans have ceased to reproduce themselves. Not since the birth dearth of the Great Depression and WWII, when the Silent Generation was born, has the U.S. population experienced such a birth decline as today.
At the same time, a war of all against all in America seems to raise the question, to which recitation of the cliche -- "Our diversity is our greatest strength" -- no longer seems an adequate response:
Is there no limit to the racial, religious, ideological, political, cultural and ethnic diversity the nation can accommodate before it splinters into its component parts?
In professions of religious belief, atheists, agnostics and secularists have become our largest "congregation," followed by Catholics and Protestants, both of which are in numerical decline.
Diversity of faiths leads to irreconcilable, clashing opinions about morality on the most divisive social issues of our era: abortion, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, etc.
Racial diversity, too, is bringing back problems unseen since the 1960s.
America was almost 90 percent white in 1960, but that figure is down to 60 percent and falling. In 25 years, we will all belong to racial minorities.
Are we Americans still united in our love of country? Do we still take pride in what we have done for our own people and what America has done for the world in the 400 years since Jamestown?
Hardly. Part of the nation buys into the academic and intellectual elites' version of history, tracing America's birth as a nation to the arrival of the first slave ship in Virginia in 1619.
We not only disagree about our history; some actually hate our history.
That hate can be seen in the statues and monuments destroyed, not just of Confederate military heroes but of the European explorers who discovered America, the Founding Fathers who created the nation, and the leaders, from Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt, who built the America we became.
Yet, tens of millions from all over the world still see coming to America as the realization of a life's dream.
Some look at Western civilization as 500 years of colonialism, imperialism, genocide, slavery and segregation -- practiced against people of color. This is the source of the West's wealth and power, it is said, and that wealth and power should be redistributed to the descendants of the victims of Western rapacity.
For many, equality of opportunity is no longer enough. We must make restitution, deliver reparations and guarantee a future where an equality of rewards replaces an equality of rights.
Meritocracy must yield to equity. Elite high schools, such as Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, Stuyvesant in New York and Lowell in San Francisco, must abandon their emphasis on grades, tests and exams to gain admissions and prove progress.
And these schools must be remade to mirror the racial and ethnic composition of the communities where they reside.
And a new cancel culture has taken root in America.
Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, a CNN commentator, was fired for suggesting that Native American institutions and culture played no significant role in the foundation and formation of the American Republic.
"We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes, we have Native Americans," Santorum said, adding: "There isn't much Native American culture in American culture."
Impolitic though this rendition was, was it wholly false?
Something is seriously wrong with a country that professes to be great but whose elite cannot abide the mildest of heresies to its established truth.
Yes.
Diversity is the fault line along which societies will shatter when stressed.
“What the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell is wrong with us?”
What is wrong is people like him taking God out of every aspect of public life; telling us morality and character don’t matter. Well, they do matter and we need to welcome God back into our public lives.
WTSHTF all these groups will isolate themselves from others and any sense of unity will disappear. It will be everyone looking out for themselves.
Damned right it is.
The problem, Pat, is that to a typical leftist a group people consisting of a white leftist, a black leftist, an Asian leftist, a Hispanic leftist, a gay leftist, a lesbian leftist, a self-mutilation leftist, and a conservative is diverse.
>>“What the hell is going on in the United States of America?<<
It ceased to exist after the election was stolen. The enemy was living right under our noses but we did not recognize it. All the talk that we were the greatest nation ever was just empty talk. We proved ourselves to be nothing but just another Banana Republic.
Yes and whoever says it is our strength is a fool.
Go look in a mirror, Newsom, if you want to know "what is wrong with us." You can start with hypocrites like your own damned self.
There is nothing wrong with us, what is wrong is commies like you in control.
I will jump for joy - as I did when Hillary was defeated - when you are ousted from office by a recall.
It came apart when we let Antifa and BLM roam the streets unchallenged.
WTSHTF all these groups will isolate themselves from others and any sense of unity will disappear. It will be everyone looking out for themselves. It is said that when the End comes, the situation becomes so dire that the living will envy the dead.
Diversity is division.
That hate can be seen in the statues and monuments destroyed, not just of Confederate military heroes but of the European explorers who discovered America, the Founding Fathers who created the nation, and the leaders, from Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt, who built the America we became.
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Thank you Nikki Haley
“Our diversity is our greatest strength”
Fat lot of good it does them.
In the day our diversity was addressed in calling America the “Great Melting Pot” where ethnic identity was preserved and generally celebrated by all - yet ALL formed together to be AMERICANS, not (insert ethic/self identification here) - American.
The conservative in that group will not be welcome.
The Roman Empire was very diverse just before it fell apart.
Concordia civium murus urbium.
“Harmony of citizens is the wall of cities.”
Yes. Enoch Powell was right.
What Is Diversity?
I found this:
What Is Diversity?
For the Greater Good Science Center, “diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different kinds of people—and the idea that this diversity drives cultural, economic, and social vitality and innovation. Indeed, decades of research suggest that intolerance hurts our well-being—and that individuals thrive when they are able to tolerate and embrace the diversity of the world.
In North America, the word “diversity” is strongly associated with racial diversity. However, that is just one dimension of the human reality. We also differ in gender, language, manners and culture, social roles, sexual orientation, education, skills, income, and countless other domains. In recent years, some advocates have even argued for recognition of “neurodiversity,” which refers to the range of differences in brain function.
Research shows that differences do make it harder for people to connect and empathize with each other. Navigating differences can be tough, whether in the classroom, the workplace, or our personal relationships—and yet people all over the world do it every day. It’s a prosocial skill, like empathy or forgiveness, that can be developed over a lifetime with intentionality, knowledge, and practice. In diverse societies, cultivating our ability to forge relationships across differences can actually increase our well-being.
Diversity is our weakness.
Share values and common goals are our strength.
More and more of the former and less and less of the latter.
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