What Is America? Who Is an American? By Daniel Oliver for American Greatness
We really can’t expect most immigrants to understand the genius of the American system, which is one good reason not to let too many of them in at any one time.
What is America? Who is an American? How do you become an American?
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) has said that Congress should grant citizenship to every illegal alien (there may be 20 million of them!)—people who started their lives in America by breaking the law. But will they make good citizens? Do they have any understanding of what makes America America?
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If your answer is no, you’d better whisper it because if you work for a major corporation you’re likely to lose your job for being so unwoke—or really anti-woke.
America started out as a shining city on a hill. In 1630, as his ship the Arbella sailed toward North America, John Winthrop delivered a sermon called “A Modell of Christian Charity” asserting that the new land they were headed for “shall be as a city upon a hill.” The phrase, often quoted by President Ronald Reagan, is taken from the Sermon on the Mount. If you don’t know what that is, then you’re part of the problem: the problem being the disintegration of the ethos that made America great.
George Washington said, “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.” John Adams famously said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
That has seemed so obvious over the years that it went largely unremarked. In 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower added “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. That must sting for the wokies, even today, 68 years later.
So, it’s perfectly obvious that America was founded as a nation “under God,” but that doesn’t tell us anything about the structure of government. You have to look to the founding documents for that information.
