{"id":22,"date":"2025-08-21T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/what-our-survival-depends-on\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:27:56","slug":"what-our-survival-depends-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/what-our-survival-depends-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What Our National Survival Depends On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our great founders understood that immigrants bring their culture with them, and that some cultures are toxic to our own.  They understood that there can be no comity without commonality, that immigration without assimilation is a recipe for disaster, and that unity, not diversity, is the source of our strength.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As Alexander Hamilton warned<\/a>, America\u2019s survival depends on \u201cthe preservation of a national spirit and a national character.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens the moment they put foot in our country \u2026 would be nothing less, than to admit the Grecian Horse into the Citadel of our Liberty and Sovereignty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Jefferson likewise warned that immigrants \u201cwill bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth,\u201d and that, as a result, they \u201cwill infuse into [our legislation] their spirit, warp and bias its direction.\u201d Jefferson recognized that a careless approach to immigration would eventually reshape America away from her founding character.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Americans want America to survive, they must reclaim the moral clarity of the Founders and say, without apology, that not every idea deserves a seat at the table and not every person who wants to be in America deserves to be here.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read more here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our great founders understood that immigrants bring their culture with them, and that some cultures are toxic to our own.  They understood that there can be no comity without commonality, that immigration without assimilation is a recipe for disaster, and that unity, not diversity, is the source of our strength. As Alexander Hamilton warned, America\u2019s survival … Continue reading “What Our National Survival Depends On”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-maga-matters","category-political-apologetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}