It’s amazing to see Gorsuch start with talk of “an idea,” then go into detail about the Founders—men who shared a common culture, more or less similar views on the West and Christianity writ large (with a few exceptions, yes), and were all products of British colonial civilization in America—and then pivot back to this tired trope about America being a “creedal nation.”
They cannot seem to get out of this mental rut—or they don’t want to. America is not a really great idea. It’s a people and a culture derived from England and Christian Europe. Anyone who wants to be an American must adopt that culture as their own.
It’s not racist or xenophobic to say this, it’s simply the truth. And it would be nice if we had leaders and public figures who were willing to speak the truth on our semiquincentennial.
"Let us put it simply so that no miscommunication may exist: A large majority of people immigrating to this nation hate us. They hate our values, they hate Christianity, and most importantly, they hate what the West has done to their birth nation for the last 500 years. The reason they come here is for money and safety, not to become American."
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The worst part of it was the gaslighting. Being told you are privileged when you know from direct, firsthand experience and the secondhand experience of your peers, that you are being systematically discriminated against by almost every institution in civil society.