I would be dishonoring their stories, their sacrifices, and their legacy if I didn’t keep a good eye and a good memory on what and why they left and what they found here that I enjoy, too. I am proud to have come from such smart, plucky, and innovative people, who saw the truth about the Old World (and I don’t think much has changed) and acted on it. I share your views, on this, Bookworm. Thanks for this post.

Of course not–and not because they are traitors. To leading Democrats such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Al Gore and John Edwards, America would be better off if she lost.”

I am sure that Quisling felt the same about how the Nazis would improve his beloved Norway. Treason is treason.

As far as your Euro-inclinations go, been there…done that! I remind my kids whenever they go there to admire the age-old art and architecture in Paris…but never forget that it was built by indentured labor. I tell them to admire Europe’s scientific and philosophical contributions, but never forget that they gave rise to the most murderous humanistic ideologies ever recorded in history. Finally, I remind them that Europe was then, but we are now.

There is much that I love about my European roots, but nothing that takes away from my sheer pride in and appreciation of being American first and all that it entails. Those that have never experienced otherwise will never know.

I doubt that many see the bannlieues or eavesdrop on conversations at working class bars. They don’t hear about family problems and they don’t read letters to the editor in local papers. Most see exactly what they expect to see. And when a European comments on the prudery and provinciality of Americans, they return home thinking that America needs more skin in its films and more enlightened utopian conversation. They feel shame at our plumbers and the clerks in Walmarts. They don’t know that most Europeans don’t live in the charming country cottages that grace the pages of the decorating mags. And they don’t know that the salesperson goes home at the end of the day with tired feet–just like Americans.

This was a method used to destroy the Spartan colony world in SM Stirling’s “Prince” series.

The UN accomplishes two objectives. They destroy the soul and progress of America, economically and socially, by dumping their unwanted here. Often this benefit America because America was a harsh land and those that came here, like the Puritans, had to go hardcore on pragmatism. There was no time or resources for intellectual marxism or any such games.

The second objective the UN accomplishes is dumping societally disruptive figures from their places to the US. Like the Salafis. Plenty of Muslims from elsewhere, and plenty of tribes and dictators for the UN to work with.

Europe and the UN is perhaps hopes that the cancer eating at Europe can be alleviated if the US can be made to feel just as miserable. Thus the US won’t be such a great example of Europe’s failure. With that, they can rule as is their divine and ancestral right, without nagging reminders that the US is better, more powerful, wiser, etc.