How can we defeat "left-wing mythology"?

The left eventually defeats itself. Everything it touches goes to shite.

The peacetime draft. We have too many pussies in this country!

The Left is obsessed with fighting islamophobia and actually thinks Trump is hitler. It's like arguing with an insane person or an angry toddler.

If they want multiculturalism, they can move to Europe.

And don't come back.

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The idea that America was ever a 'melting pot' is itself a myth

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It's the premise that it could be which seems to the real myth.

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I'm not advocating for a 'fruit salad' model, but arguing for a return to some sort of 'assimilation' that never existed is just wrong.

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See, this is my line of thinking. Ideology can be a uniform concept, but cultural assimilation and the idea that it succeeds needs to die.

You can't defeat "free sh!t" until there is no more "free sh!t."

Your citing of St. Patty's Day parades as proof of non-assimilation is uninformed or simple minded.

People from different cultures came to the U.S. from many places, but mostly all appreciated the freedoms and relative egalitarian nature of our democratic republic. They often clashed with each other, but not against the idea of becoming Americans.

In the mid 1800's, Redemptorist priests established three large ethnic churches in the Irish Channel area of New Orleans, all within a couple of blocks from each other, including 2 that are directly across the street from each other. One was for Irish immigrants, one for Germans, and one for French speakers. You could interpret this as non-assimilation, but you need to look deeper. These communities settled in the same neighborhood, which was PACKED with poor and working class laborers. There was bound to be some tension and a little rivalry, but it was relatively mild. The same group of preists served them all.

My grandfather was baptized in the Irish church, but he got married years later in the Greman church across the street. He was a French descendant.

Fascinating.