dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Outlandish by Democrats and Alt-Right weenies.

Rose42

Exactly right.

You’re not ‘reporting’ rumitoid. You opine.

rumitoid

Both, I would think but you do not listen to another view, just dismiss it with your Trump fervor as h**e. Sophomoric. Defending the president as you repeatedly do with this bogus meme of h**e, makes you a Trumpette.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

You just showed your backside in all it's glory, Rumi!

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda! You don't stand for anything!

rumitoid

Do I have a good butt?

archie bunker Loc: Texas

You have a totally partisan, almost robotic view of your fellow Americans.
The only reason I would be interested in your butt would be a target for my boot.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

And that makes you what?
A few come to mind.
Max bogus.

Saspatz007 Loc: The goat sheds

You gotta wise up. Just laugh when people resort to monkey fighting, restrict your dialogue to those who dialogue.

federally indicted mattoid

The proof is in their inability to perceive t***h through all the propaganda they consume. Cultish behavior.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

You do realize that you invite most of this upon yourself with your short snarky comments. That's no excuse for the way some people respond. You're tough, you'll survive!

Reminds me of a joke.

Q: Why couldn't the Greek boy run away from home?
A: He couldn't leave his brother's behind.

JW

Please provide an instance of the propaganda you reference.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Isn't this what makes America exceptional? Japan has to stay Japanese to keep their culture. If I move to Japan I can never become Japanese. We, on the other hand, are the only country that welcomes diverse cultures to come here. Anyone can become American. What does an American look like? But we also expect assimilation into our culture. Does it do any good for each group to stay within their own little community and isolate themselves from other groups? Instead of being one country we become a hodgepodge of cultures like the rest of the world, only on a smaller scale.

Is Nationalism Bad? I don't think so as long as, as you say, the global community respects borders. I am not sure that Americans always respect their own borders. Are we encouraging others to not respect our borders?

JW

What makes the USA exceptional is that it is the only nation whose allegiance is to an idea and an icon, the Constitution and the f**g.

Every other nation on the planet is sworn to an ethnicity or in some cases, multiple ethnicities within a national boundary. Where multiple ethnicities reside within a national border, the union is and remains tentative. Northern Ireland and Yugoslavia are good examples with Northern Ireland demonstrating the tentative nature of the union and Yugoslavia demonstrating what happens to such a nation when the bootheel of despotism is finally lifted.

In the United States, those who came here were looking for the freedom to guide their own lives. National origins didn't matter until the influx became oppressive to those already here.

If we examine any nation comprising more than a single ethnicity/culture, we find the same thing/s in its/their government; laws are enacted for the purpose of forcing people to accept an alien or outside culture. Those laws are oppressive by their nature. They force people to modify their own cultural standards in order to force tolerance of the other cultures. That requires oppression because people do not willingly accept foreign cultural behaviors in their midst.

Canada was at one time very similar to the United States. It placed a high value on individual liberty. Canada has been becoming less and less free and more and more encumbered by oppressive behavioral mandates from the government. We in the USA have been experiencing the same pressures but have not yet fully surrendered our personal independence to the degree Canadians have but we are clearly heading in that direction. An unregulated influx of nonAmericans, with no desire to assimilate, makes those same oppressive behavioral mandates more common in our country also. Our government is becoming increasingly repressive.

The bottom lines are these; 1) cultures do not mix. They can absorb alien aspects but they must do it at their own pace. (From Irish need not apply to everyone can be Irish for a day.) That absorption is called the melting pot. Multi-culturalism declares that assimilation is not a goal of the overarching society. It runs contrary to the melting pot. 2) Governments in multi-cultural societies must necessarily be repressive. 3) Like Yugoslavia, when given the chance, multi-cultural nations will schism into separate nations.

My prediction, if we continue down the path we are on; in 100 years there will not be a United States. There will be several separate nations, where the USA once was, who will reenact the dramas that have occupied Europe for the last 3000 years.

Rose42

I listen to other views and I don’t defend Trump. Yet you stupidly insist I do. Archie nailed it - you are robotic in your partisanship.