Posted on 07/28/2024 10:01:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Is America an idea or a homeland? That question lies at the heart of this roller coaster of a presidential race. It’s about whether we Americans should continue to set our sights on global leadership and enforcing universal principles or instead hunker down and take care of our own.
President Biden, in his speech on Wednesday explaining why he withdrew his candidacy, described America as “the most powerful idea in the history of the world.” In language echoing legacy Republicans like Ronald Reagan, Mr. Biden said that it was “an idea stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant.”
But Donald Trump’s Republican Party is turning away from that kind of language. At the Republican convention, JD Vance, his running mate, made a point of saying that America is “not just an idea” but a “homeland,” evoking a mountain cemetery in Eastern Kentucky where he said his ancestors are buried and where he hopes that he and his children will be buried as well.
Some of his critics immediately denounced those references to his family’s land and lineage as coded “blood and soil” nationalism, the ideology of Nazis. In The Atlantic, Adam Serwer accused Mr. Vance of signaling an “exclusivist vision of America to his far-right allies” when he asserted that America is a country made up of people who share a history rather than a “creedal nation” — one primarily based on ideas like freedom and equality. “If America is a creedal nation, then anyone can be an American,” Mr. Serwer wrote. “But if real Americans are those who share a specific history, then some of us are more American than others.”
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Via the New York Slime brand of hard left propaganda
I for one am fed up with this “America last” nonsense. It’s time to put an end to that.
Which is very predictable for them.
Anyone can, but that means leave the ways of the old country behind and assimilate to be an American.
Part of that is learning the history.
It's not even "America last" anymore, it's "Death to America," and they aren't even pretending it isn't.
Who’s the Dem’s vp?
A Marine veteran who served in the Big Sandbox and loves his country!
What will we do?
If people would look at the first generations of Americans, the ones who actually founded America, they didn’t want immigration diversity and didn’t accept it, it didn’t start arriving until the 1840s and ever since then the diversity has always voted for more immigration diversity and the definition of what was acceptable as immigration diversity has kept enlarging until it has morphed into a complete reversal of immigration of 1790 America, to where those Americans are the excluded type of immigrant.
“Is America an idea or a homeland?”
It’s neither. It’s a nation of related people. Thus the term “nation” from the Latin word “Natus”.
And it doesn’t include deracinated homosexuals temporarily trapped in the self declared island of insanity known as “New York City”.
They're so predictable.
Tell the NYT to piss up a rope.
Decoding the NYTs:
They’re not right in the head
The Times is scared.
Ask Chris Wray— who told the world that AntiFA was “an idea”. Ask AntiFA what their “IDEA” is then compare and contrast, NY Marxist (Walter Duranty,Stalin’s NYTimes employee) Slimes!!
Hilarious.
What is the NYSlimes “IDEA” of “Nationalism”. Answer: “Nationalist-ic Socialism domestically, and International Socialism (Communism) internationally)” That is THEIR idea of Nationalism. Blue Helmets and all.
no, No, NO, NO, NO!
It’s called Americanism retards.
An empire always colonizes its own core with the dregs from the periphery as it struggles to dominate the heart of the empire. Americans are sick of being bled while by criminal mass murderers and sick perverts infesting our institutions.
Hard work and discipline are not found in parts of American society.
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