{"id":848,"date":"2024-04-02T05:14:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T05:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/multi-racial-but-not-multi-cultural-self-critique-of-a-may-2017-entry\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T05:14:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T05:14:46","slug":"multi-racial-but-not-multi-cultural-self-critique-of-a-may-2017-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/multi-racial-but-not-multi-cultural-self-critique-of-a-may-2017-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Racial but not Multi-Cultural: Self-Critique of a May 2017 Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May of 2017, I wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The USA cannot help but be a multi-racial society, but if we cannot agree on a common culture for public purposes with English as its official language and the values of the founding documents as its foundation, then the end is in sight. But collapse takes time and those of us in our mid-60s, assuming we don't live too long, should be able to weather the storm without too much stress. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am less sanguine now; things are far worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

One problem is that we lack the collective will to demand the assimilation without which even legal<\/em> immigration is a recipe for Balkanization.  Any sane person who does not intend the destruction of our republic should be able to see that the values of Sharia are incompatible with American values, and that no Muslims should be allowed to immigrate who are unwilling to accept and honor our values.  There is no right to immigrate, and immigration must be to the benefit of the host country.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the problem just mentioned is minor compared to the problem that we <\/span>don't even have the 'logically prior' collective will to enforce reasonable laws and put a stop to illegal<\/em> immigration and the flouting of Federal immigration law by so-called 'sanctuary' cities and other jurisdictions. First, stop illegal immigration, then worry about assimilation in connection with legal immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n

This unlikely to happen even if Trump gets a second term.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once more: improper entry into the country is already a violation of the criminal<\/em> code. When the mayor of a great city, New York, refuses to deport illegal aliens who commit such serious felonies as driving while intoxicated, then you know that there is precious little common ground left.<\/span><\/p>\n

We cannot agree on this? Then what can we agree on?<\/span><\/p>\n

We conservatives can blame ourselves to some extent. We lost ourselves in our private lives while the destructive Left had its way.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Paradoxically, our appreciation that the political is a limited<\/em> sphere has left us at a disadvantage over against leftists for whom the political is the only<\/em> sphere. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is an ingredient in what I call The Conservative Disadvantage<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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