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The Integrationist Fantasy

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E pluribus unum? Out of many, one? It can work, and it did work for a time, though not perfectly. But thanks to ‘progressives,’ regression has set in. Whether a One can be made of Many depends on the nature of the Many.

A viable One cannot be made out of just any Many.

To think otherwise is to succumb to what I call the Integrationist Fantasy. This is the dangerous conceit that people can be brought together peacefully and productively despite deep differences in their languages, religions, cultures, traditions, and values.

Read it all; it's short: your Twitterized (X'ed out?) brain will be able to process it.

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6 responses to “The Integrationist Fantasy”

  1. Joe Odegaard Avatar
    Joe Odegaard

    This is the dawning of the age of NEFARIOUS Aquarius . . .
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE
    Really ? OOoooooo ! ! !

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  2. EG Avatar
    EG

    Bill,
    Do you have any coherent thoughts about what rational (national?) policy looks like with respect to immigration, proper cultural assimilation, etc.? Or, do you think that in some respects the whole thing is a bit of a wash that has to continually be fought and ordered at the lower levels?

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  3. jim reibel Avatar
    jim reibel

    Excellent! Short and “sweet” for all who have ears to hear. Thanks, Bill. I will share this widely.
    Happy New Year to everyone. Let us hope and next Monday will be the dawning of a long overdue correction.

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  4. Ingvar Avatar
    Ingvar

    William Federer has pointed out that a key aspect of the thirteen disparate colonies thinking along the lines of united colonies was the circuit preachers of the first great awakening.
    They were heard throughout the disparate colonies.
    Relatedly, I value Phil Weingart’s eight essays on the ‘Theological Foundations of a Just Revolution’ (‘TFJR’) derived from “Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805” (2 Volume Set) that sketch the deepest roots of the political terrain we defend.
    What I learned from Weingart was that while the American revolutionaries deeply believed that rebellion was gravely wrong, they also believed that what had come about in the thirteen Colonies was overridingly important to mankind and to protect and prolong it required political separation from England even if it meant eight years of war.

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  5. Joe Odegaard Avatar
    Joe Odegaard

    Hi Bro Ingvar ! In some ways we are in the third great awakening now: on Nov. 5 the USA rejected the Left. In the face of the following list of countries and the years in which they did NOT reject the left, I don’t think it is too much of a stretch to call what is happening now, an awakening.
    Russia: 1917
    Italy: 1925
    Germany: 1933
    Rumania: 1947
    China: 1948
    Cuba: 1959
    Venezuela: 1999
    I am sure there are others.
    We of the USA have done better than all of them.
    — Catacomb Joe

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  6. EG Avatar
    EG

    @Ingvar,
    That’s very insightful and compelling. I’ll check those out. Thanks!

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