A New York Principal Has it all Wrong--By Choice

A principal in New York has arbitrarily chosen to remove any references to Christmas (as well as the Pledge of Allegiance) from her school.  She wants to be sensitive to all of her diverse students, a mindset that evidently does NOT include sensitivity to patriotic Americans or Christians. 

Her mistake is one consistently made by the lathered left.  She thinks that America’s greatness is an accident of geography.  She thinks that any group of people, given the same resources, would produce the same greatness. 

            She is wrong.  

            There is a feeling among liberals that American greatness is an unearned distinction.  The left thinks we have been given accidental gifts and have been feckless in their use.  “They” (meaning anyone who is secular, socialist and dismissive of patriotism) are absolutely committed to reducing America’s love of self, because they find it loathsome.

            These leftists have all benefited from the greatness of this country.  They readily accept the gifts America offers, but don’t want to acknowledge the giver, or return the generosity.  Unfortunately, like children who were not raised properly, they don’t know that when you are given a gift you return thanks.  You also try to pass that generosity on to others.  Instead, today’s crop of Democratic leaders are embarrassed by being given anything by a country they despise.  Perhaps, deep down, they realize they don’t deserve what this country has given them.  So, instead of being grateful, they are resentful, sullen, and angry which makes them destructive. 

            Let me make this as clear as I possibly can.  America is not a great country because of what we have; it is a great country because of who we are.  If we accept immigrants who don’t want to be part of the American mindset they will fail.  If we accept immigrants who just want a chance to shoulder their way up to what they see as the American trough, America will fail.  We are so much more than just fortuitous geography.  “America” is a singular, manifestly successful and culturally distinctive way of thinking.  It is right, it is beautiful, and it is all our own.

As Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Frederick Jackson Turner, posited in his Frontier Thesis, our Westward expansion was so unique and so pervasive in all aspects of our culture that it shaped a specific American character.  Our concepts of grass roots democracy, individualism and a pragmatic approach to problem solving that allowed us to keep or discard the practices of the past as they merited became part of a new, “American” persona.   Turner also believed that you can never give democracy to people who have no mental construct that supports it.  Democracy, capitalism, even typical American civility simply cannot be given; they have to be developed by each society on its own.  

American exceptionality has been earned, person by person, year by year from 1776 to now. 

This means that we have to shape immigrants to our American culture, and they have to be willing to accept this assimilation.  It is good to honor and cherish the culture that you were born to, but any immigrant has to be ready to subsume that culture into the greater culture of the adopting country.  If not, they are just here for the money, not the freedom.  People, like this New York principal, who do not want children exposed to American thinking, culture and traditional values, weaken this country, and will ultimately destroy it.  Whether their intent is inspired by ignorance, envy or evil makes no difference, the result will be the same. 

            Examine the motives and keep the faith.