Jim Morin for January 12, 2018

Goebbels’ twin.

“…preferably white…” no doubt meaning hot babes get a pass.

JLOCKE…conceptually constipated.

Why is he holding the torch? Shouldn’t Herr Miller be giving the stiff-armed Nazi Salute, like he usually does when reporting to the Fuehrer, Herr Drumpf??

Poor, deluded JLOCKE, not even able to realize the “Distinctive Culture” of America is BECAUSE we have blended the customs of MANY countries. There are NONE so blind as those who WILL NOT see…

@"jlocke"…Your argument neglects the reasons we have been successful as a nation.

Americans used to be known for their honesty. As I have traveled throughout Latin America over the last 35 years, this has been a common refrain. Seems honesty was an American aspirational value.

Equality under the law. This seems to have been thrown out the window as well, as something to aspire to.

Clean, public service. This has been under attack for a long time. Now trump and his minions have destroyed the concept. Conflicts of interest abound, and the regressives don’t care.

Liberty and justice for all. Not in the regressives mindset.

Compromise and negotiation. Sure, right, OK, whatever. The regressives have taken this aspirational ideal and dragged it right into the swamp.

Civil rights. The regressives are so far out in left field on this, you can smell their racism all the way from Charlottesville.

Tolerance. The intolerance in today’s discourse is a reflection of the contagion facing the nation as trump’s mental illness spreads.

Fair play. This used to be part of American aspirational values. Not any more. The regressives have stolen fair play from the public commons and are holding it for ransom.

Patriotism. In any othe era, having a hostile foreign power assault our elections with the active support of an incumbent president would be grounds for immediate impeachment.

So “jlocke” these are the aspirational ideal I want to preserve. Looks to me like you’re really not at all on the same page with true American values. You approve of dishonesty, intolerance, treason, cheating, conflicts of interest and all the rest of the steaming pile of dung celebrated by trump and those who support him? Take a stab a refuting ANY of the above.

Preserving our unique and extraordinary success as a country is dependent on these aspirational ideals. Why is that not obvious to you? This has nothing to do with immigration. It has to do with aspirational values.

Is the torch being fueled by coal?

“We have a distinctive culture here in the USA. …Most of us are not in favor of changing this American culture by bringing in a flood of immigrants ….” – JLOCKE

What are you saying now ? Of all other Countries in the world, America’s distinctive culture is immigration. Immigration and a confluence of ethnicities and ideas is the hallmark of the US and is what makes us great.

@JLocke – the culture that is a composite of English, Iroquois, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, Scandinavian, Eastern European, etc., etc., etc….?

Did you know the Founders considered making Hebrew and German the national language? Did you know Franklin cited the Iroquois Nations as a fundamental influence on the Constitution?

Did you know Captain America was designed by two Eastern European Jews? So was Superman! Eastern European Jews were being actively excluded by immigration activists using EXACTLY the same language you are using back in the 1930s. We made some exceptions for people like Einstein, but we also kept a lot of valuable people from our shores from nothing more than racism. (See, for example, The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould, for some of the shameful history of this.

Trump is making America great for every single person who is exactly like Trump.

Ah yes, that distinctive American culture that demanded black slaves to support a few rich white ones while other nations made slavery illegal. Put us right up there with the Arab states, except of course, they would also take white slaves, too. Those first slaves came to the US in 1619, before the Mayflower, because they were used to working in a warm, humid climate unknown in England. And because English “gentlemen” should not have do hard labor.

The culture where Chinese laborers were murdered out West, while the South lynched blacks and gave free reign to the Klan. Where black men who fought for American Liberty in WW2 were denied the right to vote in south and treated as second class citizens almost everywhere. The culture that put Japanese in concentration camps.

Then there were the Irish, fleeing famine in Ireland, to find blind hatred in America. And then the Italians. Kiss your pizza goodbye without them. Of course to the anti-Lockes of this world, all Italians were peasant scum, and belonged to the mafia.And Jews! Oh dear, can’t have them thinking they are a part of society.

The last time I saw eyelids like his they were coming out of a basket and there was a guy playing a flute.

Our New Colossus

.A gigantic, bronzed statue of a dame,

Gleaming limbs ’neath ’lectric sunlamp tanned;

Below yon giant lamppost, see her stand—

This brazen woman sings her song of flame.

She gestures, having turned from early fame

To spurn unshelter’d poor. Now her hand

Waves them off with heavy book of Rand;

Thro’ painted lashes seeks she fitter game.

“Keep your poor and tired trash,” calls she

With ruby’d lips, “Send me your rich, your white

Your lucky heirs, who scheme to live tax-free;

The wretched I refuse—my legal right!

Outsourcing, open-handed men for me—

Above my door I shine the scarlet light!”

The anti should read American Nation by Colin Woodard. Ample evidence is provided that the US population is in fact composed of several groups whose make-up has existed from the earliest settlements. They show no signs of merging, and explain American divisions for the past 400 years.

Colinwoodard.com

Miller is racist Trump’s rabid attack dog.

Pay taxes????

The thing that blows me out about Miller is that he is from a liberal Jewish family in Santa Monica. What ever happened to turn him into the bigot he is? And why didn’t Duke have any effect on his thinking processes? When I was there, we were doing major (peaceful) sit-ins in support of civil rights. (I mention the peaceful bit because the news sources at the time said we were not worth covering because there was no violence.) Of course, that was long before Miller was there, but I don’t believe Duke has become a home for racial bigots. He is an anomaly and a fairly unpleasant one at that.

I’m a day late reading the comments. It was like being in a classroom of world history. So many changes since my “first light”,as astronomers say of a new telescope, was in 1936. Good discussion!