re: This country needs more true PATRIOTS

While I'm not sure what prompted this kind-of weird rant, it's going to be harder to foster patriotism.

There is going to be less and less that unifies us. People who come here aren't required to assimilate, they can go to their ethnic enclaves and set up shop living the way they used to. Certain groups can have pride in who they are (being gay, black, whatever), and some of us are directed not to do so. The idea that diversity is what makes us great is misguided.

Diversity is what sets us apart from other parts of the world. But, if we ultimately fraction ourselves apart and then claim to be unified by vague concepts of freedom and peace and other shite that fades when things get real, it's going to be problematic.

Set aside "traditional values" and focus on western values. The rule of evenhanded and just laws, transparency, free speech above other virtues, individual responsibility, etc. We need to promote the adoption of these above all else. That starts with universal condemnation of actions and attitudes that don't agree with that mindset, not blind acceptance of "oh that's how their culture does it."

I mean, when the media and public are split on whether it is ok for petulant college students to shut down a school and exclude press because they need their "safe space," what do we have as a country? If we can't condemn that, we're pretty lost.