Op-ed: 

Negating American Culture

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio 

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google. 

 

The words “Cultural identity” are usually dictionary defined as being, “the shared characteristics of a group of people which encompasses their place of birth, religion, language, social behaviors, literature, art, and music.” In other words, it's the commonality of that which unites together those who share not only an ancestral origin but who adhere to a given ideology...political or otherwise...coupled with a specific set of values, beliefs, societal norms, and narratives.

And at times in our nation's past assorted what became known as “cultural identities” were kept somewhat in both perspective and in-check when weighing the commonalities which helped to unite our multitudes together against that which separated and divided folks of different backgrounds into what has now morphed into compartmentalized sub-categories. And it's those sub-categories that have not only become prevalent in today's America... what with the words “cultural identity” taking over the public discourse...leaving what really defines one as being an “American” to be used instead to help not only divide the very “fabric” that encompasses the entirety of what is the collective sum of “We the People,” but to shame, mock, and accuse our country of being a “racist nation” if we don't buy into the liberal rhetoric known as DEI...“diversity, equity,” and “inclusion.”

Our beloved America has also...in the name of liberal generated “political correctness”...been stripped of what unites “We the People” together simply because the “natural order of things” has been willfully corrupted and compromised solely for one party's political gain. And this, in turn, leaves those of us who still proudly call ourselves “Americans”...as in we who refuse to buy into the sub-group category known as“identity politics”...those of us who will not use hyphens, skin color, sexuality, or religious affiliation to define who we are as “Americans”...are being forced to embrace and accept into our American “cultural identity” any and everything the left chooses to label as being part of America's new “cultural norm.” And this is no matter where or why said label came to be...whether it be courtesy of dictated political discourse or simply via mainstream media rhetoric being repeated so many times that mass indoctrination itself took hold of the public discourse.

Sadly, in our country today...again thanks to the far left... what is called “identity politics” has not only changed the fundamentals of “American culture,” but it has now so overwhelmed the public discourse that we find even basic level “Americanism” being shunned only to be replaced by an entity of subgroups known as “Black culture, White culture, Hispanic culture, Oriental culture, Indigenous People's culture, Christian culture, Jewish culture, Muslim culture, Gay culture, Transgender culture, Woke culture,” the list goes on ad-nauseum. In other words, what was true “American culture” has broken down to such a degree that any and all that deem themselves to be a culture unto itself is now being forcibly shoved down our throats as must be accepted components of the fabric of our nation

Simply, what the leftists forget is that, at times, the sum of the whole of “American culture” is not always derived by its individual nor unique components, for such components do tend to be be added or removed when the political parties in control of power switch hands. However, what does make we “Americans” and our “culture” unique is not about the names we call ourselves nor is about TV shows watched, games played, books read, foods eaten, individual religious beliefs held or not held, or which poliical party one belongs to, but it is about that which collectively binds us together as “We the People” while encompassing our individual similarities yet understanding our multitude of individual differences.

“American culture” is also not about where one was born nor must it ever be about the color of ones skin for once we are able to look past “skin color” other more important issues might naturally start falling into place. But what “American culture” is about is the joining together of our individual differences and melding them together into an amalgam that represents the sum total of one united people...a people who believe in and cherish the rule of law and the freedoms our Constitution affords us while at the same time striving for that which is the hallmark of “American exceptionalism.” Remember, “America culture”...true “American culture”...has in it no place for hate, bigotry, or divisiveness for the culture that comprises our nation's reality must remain one of “unity” because without “unity” we as a nation will ultimately fail only to be replaced by something unrecognizable to us...something which we might never be able to return from.

But, and sad as it might be, maybe America's failing is and has always been the ultimate goal of some...some who have no pride in nor love for this country coupled with their having no respect for her Constitutional rule of law. Instead, these are folks who relish in using an arsenal comprised of divisiveness, hate, violence, and fearmongering as the weapons by which to use against that what is our great “republic.” The “enemies within” now come to life...enemies usually funded in their quest by “enemies from without”...enemies who have much to gain by first culturally weaponizing certain groups of people against what is the sum of “American culture,” and then moving on from there to negating America herself.

And here I start with whom I consider to be the antithesis of what is not only tried and true “American culture” but “American exceptionalism” as well. Simply, “ground zero” from which began the corruption of said “American culture,” as well as the man who initiated and then implemented the far left turn into the cultural and moral ludicrousness that has overtaken our nation. And he did so, first by his directly stirring the pot of racial discontentment while adding into it what were decidedly adversarial social and moral narratives, and then by his hoping to at least get close to finishing the job he started courtesy of the shell of a man that is Joe Biden. But now this same man has tasked his newest puppet Kamala Harris with finishing the job Biden failed to do...while keeping his fingers crossed.

And of course I speak of Barack HUSSEIN Obama...the man who in the shadows has really been in control of the White House these past four long years...our nation's so-called first black president (he's “mixed race” actually as his mother and both maternal grandparents+ were white)...a man who took a nation almost healed from past self-inflicted racial wounds, and opened up said wounds allowing them to fester and grow solely to push forward his dream of what America and “American culture” should be. The man whose vision of “Transforming America” into a socialism driven “brown” nation sees his no longer needing to be metaphorically veiled “fourth term in office” closer to reaching its final fruition no matter that the cost to our nation, our culture, our identity, and our individual freedoms would be Constitutionally damning.

And so now as the annals of “American cultural history” continues to be written...history that must be based upon fact not upon how one man wants or doesn't want it to be written...misrepresentations still abound as to what really is meant by “American culture.”

So here I present the words of John F. Kennedy (JFK), America's 35th president...a Democrat who if alive today would be a Republican not so unlike in nature of that of our 45th and hopefully 47th President Donald J. Trump... for not only are both men's policies quite similar in nature, but so too is their wanting what's best for America and for the American people. Kennedy's famous words, “Ask not what your country can do for you...ask what you can do for your country,” puts our country not individual partisan politics first as do Trump's important words, “I want to be be president of all of America not just half of America.”

Simply, our identity as to who we should be as a nation...as a country...as in putting “country first” in the hopes of uniting “We the People” together as one in “liberty and freedom” should be paramount above all else, while at the same time striving to restore “common sense” and “civility” to the political discourse. Together these are what truly defines “American culture” or at least they should be. Case closed. 

 

Copyright © 2024 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

 

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