We are currently in a cold civil war for the heart and soul of the United States of America. The intricate details are more nuanced and complex, but in general, the leftist Democrat faction of the country views America’s origin as intrinsically ‘racist’, genocidal and ‘white supremacist’. As Martin Luther King Jr. explained:
Our nation was born in genocide, when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population.
The history of war and conquest is not unique to the British colonist and American settlers, but leftist would have us believe otherwise. To the cultural left, we are not to show praise and gratitude to Christopher Columbus for bringing Christianity and Western civilization to the Americas and paving the way for the foundation of the United States of America, but rather condemnation for bringing ‘racism’ and genocide to the New World. Similarly, the 1619 Project attempts to reframe the Revolutionary War as a fight to preserve slavery. Again, we are told that slavery is unique to the American founding. Most recently, the United States Senate unanimously passed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making Juneteenth a national holiday. The fact that it is called a national independence day is intentional and those that simply view this as giving gratitude to courageous Americans that ended slavery are mistaken. The reason this is important is because Black Lives Matter (BLM) is not just a movement or a brand name, but a nation. This nation has its own origin myth in the 1619 Project arguing that the nation originated in 1619 when the first African slaves were brought to America. The nation has its own independence day celebration, which will now be celebrated every June 19. And as we saw at the beginning of the 2020 NFL season, BLM has its own national anthem. Most of the mainstream media, from the Atlantic to the New York Times explicitly acknowledges this fact. The Times executive director, Phil Corbett explained the papers change to capitalize Black, believing “this style best conveys elements of shared history and identity and reflects our goal of being respectful to all the peoples and communities we cover". In other words, Blacks are a distinct people with shared ancestry, culture and history. Although the BLM nation currently dominates the culture, it is not the only nation within the boundaries of the United States fighting for cultural and political power. Other prominent national groups are Hispanics, Asians, and to a lesser extent Arabs. Most conservatives do not understand the ongoing cold civil war because they blindly believe in the old “American exceptionalism” myth and do not understand what a nation is.
Nation comes from the Latin nationem (nominative natio) meaning "birth, origin; breed, stock, kind, species; race of people, tribe”. Thus a nation is a large group of people sharing the same ancestry, history, culture, language and traditions. A nation is a subset of ethnicity:
A nation is a stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, history, ethnicity, or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
A nation is more overtly political than an ethnic group; it has been described as "a fully mobilized or institutionalized ethnic group".
This is not to be confused with country, which is a political body governing over an area of land. Thus a citizen, although subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction of the country, is not necessarily a member of the county’s congruent nation. The early American settlers and our Founding Fathers understood the distinction between country and nation.
With the signing of the Deceleration of Independence, July 4, 1776 marked the independence of the country; it marked the creation of a new political body governing over the former British colonies, but it is not the foundation of the American nation. The American nation has its origin in 1607 with the first British colony in Jamestown, Virginia. However, the arrival of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620 is more often celebrated as the beginning of the American nation. The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621. It is Thanksgiving that celebrates the foundation of the American nation. America’s internal enemies understand this, which is why they so vehemently attack Thanksgiving. Ultimately, there would be 13 original British colonies, which are currently represented by the 13 stripes on the U.S. flag. Under British rule, the American colonist had the same rights as those living in England, such that:
All persons born in the British American Colonies are, by the laws of God and nature and by the common law of England, exclusive of all charters from the Crown, well entitled, and by acts of the British Parliament are declared to be entitled, to all the natural, essential, inherent, and inseparable rights, liberties, and privileges of subjects born in Great Britain or within the realm. Among those rights are the following, which no man, or body of men, consistently with their own rights as men and citizens, or members of society, can for themselves give up or take away from others.
It was the colonist “rights as Englishmen” that would directly lead to the Revolutionary War. Although the signing of the Deceleration of Independence made it clear that America was breaking politically with British rule, it also made clear that Americans understood themselves as ancestors of the British people:
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
The Preamble to the United States Constitution expands on this connection:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
In the 1700s, posterity was understood to mean the ancestors of a person or persons. The conservative objector may claim that the Founders were using the alternative meaning of the word, which is “all future generations”, but it is clear that in this particular context, the qualifier “our” means genetic lineage. The Founders understood that the purpose of the Constitution was to protect the welfare and liberty of the American nation and their children as opposed to any and all ethnic and national groups. Founding Father John Jay made this clear, describing the American people as “…one united people; a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs”.
On March 26, 1790, the same Congress that ratified the Constitution, would also pass the first Nationality Act. Again we see that the founding generation understood the American people to be of European descent or at the very least that they understood that Europeans, who shared in the broader tradition of Western civilization, would be more easily assimilable to the American nation:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen...
This understanding of immigration and assimilation would remain until The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965.
Ironically, the mainstream conservative is ashamed of the Founders understanding of themselves, thus accepting much of the cultural Marxist narrative of America as founded on ‘white supremacy’ and ‘racism’. But rather than agree with the cultural Marxist that America must be completely destroyed, the mainstream conservative has created a new conservative narrative, in which “we don’t care where you are from. We don’t care about your blood origins, your ethnic origins, your racial origins, your religious origins. We don’t care. From the many, one: you work with us to make America, you are one of us, whatever your color, creed, race or what have you.” Thus the mainstream conservative has completely inverted the essence of nation from one common people sharing ancestry and culture into a multicultural and multiethnic “civic nationalism”. The mainstream conservative has transformed America from a particular people with shared ancestry, history and traditions into a universal creed. The pillars of this new American creed are diversity, inclusion, nondiscrimination and openness, thus completely giving the game away to the cultural Marxist left.
Conservatives have put themselves in a no win situation. The Left looks at Thanksgiving, the founding documents, our Founding Fathers, the Preamble, the first Naturalization Act and all immigration up until 1965 as rooted in ‘racism’, ‘Whiteness’, ‘White culture’ and ‘white supremacy’. The trap is that if conservatives concede that the historic American people are White, as the Founders understood, then conservatives are ‘racist’ and ‘white supremacist’. The conservative fears being called this more than anything, so he cannot accept this as part of the historical narrative for then the conservative would have to agree with the cultural Marxist that the United States of America must be “fundamentally transformed” and that all those statues, monuments and names of dead White American men must be removed so the statues, monuments and names of the new diverse and inclusive America can be built on the ashes of dead White America. If, on the other hand as conservatives tend to do, they argue that America had its flaws and the Founders made mistakes, but the real ideal of our Founders was civic nationalism, that is a citizenry open to all ethnic, religious, cultural and racial groups, then again the cultural Marxist wins because just as before, the statues, monuments and street names must be destroyed, replaced and renamed to resemble the new, open, inclusive and diverse America. Either way the historic American country is destroyed and the American people are left without a homeland. Conservatives must abandon civic nationalism for an American nationalism that does not avoid America’s ethnic origins.