Comments on: Pride & Passion

By: SF

SF — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:16:35 +0000

“I want in my president a love that is not uncritical but is also unconditional.”

Indeed. Deutschland uber alles!

By: Sol Vason

Sol Vason — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:08:59 +0000

Your analogy to the body is attractive. Each finger knows its place and function, as do the eyes and ears and nerves. There is a place for every body in the Body Politick and every body has his place. But a finger can never become a decision maker and so, lacking fresh ideas, the Body Politick dies all too soon, unable to adapt or compete with ever-new opponents.

A melting pot is a place where many different peoples are combined and what emerges is better than the sum of the parts because the melting pot integrates the most useful parts of the peoples that enter it and produces a much improved descendant (eg. faster, taller, stronger, smarter, able to leap tall buildings etc. That’s why we win the Olympics and 9 of the ten best universities, movie stars, and German Shepards live in the US). The disharmonies that existed among the parents are reconciled within the children.

Government laws that protect cultural differences prevent integration and promote disharmony. We need an ever-increasing supply of immigrants to feed the melting pot, we need fresh perspectives and new ideas, but we do not need laws that prevent integrating these new genes, ideas and perspectives into a new and better American. Nor do we need laws that pre-ordain how the mixture should turn out (eg national language laws). The future of our people should be freely decided in the bedroom (or where ever), not the courtroom and not by fiat, statute, or custom.

By: Ginny

Ginny — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:26:31 +0000

Sol Vason:
That’s a quote from Haidt, whose typical academic assumptions were expanded as his sympathies were engaged in the value system of another society, unlike his own. The choices (ones not unlike conservatives) came from quite real (and complex) understandings of the world. He seems surprised himself as he realizes what common sense and an understanding of human nature knows: “Whenever Democrats support policies that weaken the integrity and identity of the collective (such as multiculturalism, bilingualism, and immigration), they show that they care more about pluribus than unum. They widen the sacredness gap.”

We value individualism highly and feel we can express it more freely if we trust that the overarching system in which we live has a set of laws that protect our freedom and that such a system is reinforced not by tribalism but by an allegiance to our nation, to the ligaments that connect the quite different parts of our political, national body.

By: sol vason

sol vason — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:04:51 +0000

Thank you for reminding me that “Unity is not the great need of the hour, it is the eternal struggle of our immigrant nation.”
Or as it is written “From many, one”.

Now I understand why Identity Politics is fundamentally unamerican and why the policy of Diversity as led to a deeply divided nation.

By: Shannon Love

Shannon Love — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:57:19 +0000

My husband warns me to avoid a cultish affection for Palin;…

I’ve seen a lot this kind of warning coming from the right in the past couple of weeks but I don’t recall seeing any such warnings came from the left during Obama’s ascension. Indeed, the left encourage over-the-top, blind, emotional investment in Obama as a person.

By: david foster

david foster — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:42:10 +0000

A CEO might take a job at a company with a employees he thought were incompetent fools, on one condition…he was planning to get rid of most of the employees and replace them with others more to his liking.

During the Cold War, someone remarked that “In America, when the people don’t like the government, they change out the government. In the USSR, when the government doesn’t like the people, they change out the people.” This “changeout” often took a very direct and physical form, as in the case of the Ukraine, in addition to the constant indoctrination.

It should be very clear that the “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party doesn’t much like the American people, and that should they attain the level of power they seek, their primary focus will to reshape us into something more to their liking.