archie bunker Loc: Texas

No. And he proved me right.

Kevyn

Diversity is hardly a sham, as a nation we are made up of people from around the globe. Sunday we celebrate St. Patrick’s day and soon cinco de mayo. The cry to assimilate is laughable, we are a melting pot and as people from abroad came here they have always within a couple generations mixed with those who came before them with both old and new taking on some of the culture and traditions of the other. And sadly the newcomer is often hated by the ones before them. This hatred fear and discrimination is what drives and makes inevitable what you deride as identity politics, not th other way around.

rebob14

The Democrat Party is the party of reparations..............which it is, and has long been, receiving on behalf of their brainwashed base. Enjoy it while it lasts...........the goose is nearly empty!!

Seth

I don't know what people from abroad you're referring to, Kevyn, but speaking from my own experience, my grandparents came here from Ukraine and Poland, respectively, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and assimilated 100%, as in "we are Americans now." Not a Polish or a Ukrainian American, just "American," period.

They wouldn't allow anything but English to be spoken under their roof.

Back then and for decades hence, that was how immigrants came to America and became Americans.

Then along came your Ilk, leftists who, for some perverse reason, despise our great republic despite having benefited from living here and partaking of our liberty.

Your kind, unfit to call yourselves Americans, encouraged non-assimilation, hyphenated Americans and making it non-mandatory to even learn English.

"For English, press 1."

As with most leftists, it doesn't bother you in the slightest that this kind of mass immigration without assimilation has led to the dissolution of many past civilizations... Perhaps that was the actual lesson meant to be conveyed by the story of the Tower of Babel.

Regardless, it would seem that if someone moves to another country and intends to stay, they should assimilate without reservation.

If they feel the need to celebrate the customs of the old country, have annual parades, whatever, maybe they should have remained there so they wouldn't need the nostalgic events.

But this multiculturalism your kind promotes is beyond the pale, no pun intended.

son of witless

Then where are the Conservatives in the Democratic Party ?

Seth

There are conservative Democrats, they just don't have any representation in the House or the Senate any more. Look for many such Democrats to be voting Republican in 2020, when their party crashes and burns under the weight of its new AOC/Sharia members and Nancy Pelosi's failure to maintain control over their excesses, and her failure to call them out on their gross "improprieties."

Kevyn

So your family converted from Catholicism or Ukrainian orthodox and didn’t attend worship services imported from the old country. Your family dosn’t eat kielbasa, pierogi sourkraut or borsch? Abject nonsense both Polish and Ukrainian cultures hav impacted the culture in the US from the cuisine to Easter eggs.

Seth

Actually, they're Jewish. Sure, my grandfather ate kielbasa.

-- "good stuff!"

But he also discovered Virginia ham®, and most of my grandmother's recipes gradually Americanized. She made a chestnut stuffing that was to die for, for example.

There was also the inevitable bottle of slivovitz among my grandparents' liquor supply, though neither drank, just kept it for guests.

Borscht waned before I was 5 or 6 years old, and other than a tiny amount of Yiddish used only when they didn't want us kids knowing what they were talking about (that ended when I was around 10), even the synagogue my grandparents belonged to was majorly American (the Forest Hills Jewish Center), a goodly part of the services done in English as well as Hebrew.

They raised three totally American daughters, none of whom spoke a word of Polish or Russian, none of whom married into Polish or Ukranian descent.

American, as they say, as apple pie.

TrueAmerican

Ignorant people say ignorant things !!!!!!

son of witless

How many second and third generation illegal immigrant descendants become Americanized ?

kemmer

Beto almost beat Ted Cruz in Democratic voter-suppressed, bright red Texas

Carol Kelly

There you go. I just knew it.

Carol Kelly

Why did you give up Borscht? I make it and my family loves it. It’s inexpensive and healthy. I’m a tenth generation American, back to 1700s. No Polish or Ukrainian in my background.

Carol Kelly

Very well said, American!

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

True. He raised and spent more money than any senate candidate before him. He came close to beating a very hated conservative. Money was gathered country wide by liberals who flocked to Support Beto. Cruz isn’t that popular with his own party, (a positive in my book) and still won. Beto has a chance. Libs and millennials don’t care what a person has done or stand for. It’s all about how he looks and speaks.