Hostility Toward Cultural Americanism

The very concept of a nation presumes the existence of unity on the fundamental points which define it. In America in particular, multiculturalism might be tolerable in some social relations if citizenship were conditioned upon uniculturalism in the political and economic realms by requiring each legal immigrant to demonstrate his or her understanding of and loyalty to the basic tenets of Americanism, namely,

1. National independence: The Declaration of Independence

2. Limited government: The Constitution

3. Free markets beneficial to all, the general welfare

4. Personal freedom, the Bill of Rights

5. The centripetal force of a single national language, English, in which those fundamental laws, as well as America's statutes and judicial decisions, are written

…and perhaps most important of all…

6. Each individual's duty to the community to be ever ready to retain and protect good government and to throw off bad government if necessary through being called forth and serving in the militia.

But, no, the haves have promoted the subversion, even the open denigration of Americanism at every turn, particularly with respect to the right of the people to keep and bear arms, the unfettered exercise of which is essential to the maintenance of well-regulated militia.

The one and only culture that vaunted inclusiveness of multiculturalism scrupulously excludes is Americanism.