A sense of national cohesion and the attendant mutuality of obligations remain essential to national security, for without it we will lack the resilience that only a cohesive nation can bring, whether to a crisis or to the state-on-state competition with China and Russia that is looming over the horizon. I understand the appeal of incrementalism, but I think we’re seeing it’s limits. In our quotidian existence in which we transact business, engage with government, consume media and pursue education, we are presented today with a system in which bureaucratically mandated racial, ethnic and gender categories impact access to jobs, education and other public benefits—this in a country whose “greatest generation” went to war to eradicate two totalitarian regimes committed to the belief that a person’s racial identity should define his or her place in the social order. Identified as related to American nationalism. I am not asking for either Lee or Jefferson to be judged by today’s standards.

Are there some people who really do hate the country who live here? People become American because it’s a thing worth being. Nationalism and patriotism are inherently exclusionary. I think it’s important to note that there has never been a time, not even at Peak Immigrant, when the US has ever come remotely close to a pace of immigration that threatened her institutions or capacity to absorb.

"[1], The British Parliament passed the Tea Tax in 1773 which aggravated the majority of the Colonists.

Like this: The current fracturing of the American nation into warring tribes augurs poorly for our future. And in part that’s because we have been using “Nationalism” to paper over deep divides in our nation (not just racial, also regional) that have been with us since the beginning. I think I’ll go shoot up a synagogue! How about yours?

I think this is a romantic notion but not reality. I have to respectfully disagree with you on freedom and equality for all as a founding principle of the U.S. Those paragraphs poison the essay, making Michta come across as a grumpy white guy seeking to Make America Great Again. There have been times when poor whites have felt overwhelmed by competition from immigrants and we seem to be in one of those now.

In the past we had the unity of exclusion. “What we sound like” is almost as dangerous, being so very intertwined with both ethnicity and regional factionalism. Jingoism is inherently exclusionary.

I’m glad that you recognize that the atrociousness of the actions/situations is separable from the assignment of moral praise and blame.
Education system? Where to begin? For example, I grew up on Long Island in the 80’s and 90’s. I don’t think we can remain together peaceably without revering the Founding Fathers and despising our history.
I have no solution to this, and not all of those items are the same, but because we seem to have no way to talk about our past, we end up where we are. We can’t have honest discussion about these things because they’re binary: either Robert E. Lee was among the most awful men in history or he was a saint; either FDR was a racist xenophobe or he was a saint, etc. I’ve lived or spent significant time in almost every region of the US and my experience is that no one outside of the south cares very much about Lee. And frankly bigoted.

Because it was a lie and I was a lousy liar. But it requires carving out lines on a map and saying that the things in it are more worth defending than those outside it.


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