The post we highlight here is a thoughtful analysis of what is plain to anyone whose head isn't buried in the sand.
There is a huge gulf that separates the two cultures in the United States and it is essentially people of common sense on one side and, on the other, people who don't have sense to pour piss out of a boot.
You can tell which side you're on depending on what you think about permitting 12,000,000+ illegal immigrants to come to the U.S. and granting them amnesty, a path to citizenship, and eventual voting rights equal to your own.
"Whither our country: Division within." By Vanishing American, 4/2/07.
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2 comments:
Thanks for your mention and the link; I will reciprocate.
The discussion I hoped to generate over at my blog didn't materialize, despite what I thought were important issues. But that's life in the world of blogging, I guess.
By the way, I like your blog.
-VA
Thanks, VA. My own blog creeps upward in its readership, due mostly I think to my mom and my girlfriend.
:-)
The exercise of putting one's thoughts to pixels is a sufficient reason alone to do the writing, but the overall lack of interest outside of some blog communities is disconcerting.
Your analysis certainly caught my eye as one that brought to the fore the "obvious" fact that I'd missed before, the simple, unchangeable incompatibility between some of these contending schools of thought. Some friends of the "other" persuasion are near apoplectic about partisan matters and not for an instant inclined to see the political process as involving a class of like-minded people with somewhat similar values and interests. The divide is much, much wider.
I'm just beginning Jacques Barzun's "from Dawn to Decadence" and he speaks therein of the same incompatibility that you do. "This [demise of the West] is shown by the deadlocks of our time: for and against nationalism, for and against individualism, for and against the high arts, for and against strict morals and religious belief." p. xv.
I look forward to reading more of your stuff.
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