# 3 - FORMING CONSCIENCES FOR FAITHFUL AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP # 3

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2.) THE TREASON OF THE ELITES BY RICHARD LOWRY, NATIONAL REVIEW, NOV. 8, 2019- (25-27)

" An American version of cosmopolitanism began to go off the rails in the early 20th century. In 1915 essay in The Nation, the scholar Horace Kallen attacked standard notions of assimilation as a plot by the Anglo-Saxons for continued dominance. "The 'American race' is a totally unknown thing," he wrote arguing instead for "a democracy of nationalities."

The common tongue of this democracy is still English, "but each nationality expresses its emotional and voluntary life in its own language." The country merely serves as a platform for multitude nations living within the borders: "As the foundation and background for the realization of the distinctive individuality of each natio that composes it."

Randolph Bourne picked  up the theme in The Atlantic in a 1916 essay titled "Trans-national America." He saw immigration as an opportunity to create "the first international nation," a "cosmopolitan federation of national colonies."

Randolph at the time, this point of view, this point of view steadily insinuated itself into the mainstream Horace Kallen took a bow in 1972 as a 90-year-old, with multiculturalism on the rise. "It takes about 50 years for an idea to break through and become vogue," he stated. "No one likes an intruder, particularly when he is upsetting the common place." ...

"The liberal political philosopher Richard Rorty argued in mid 1990s that there was much to admire in the academic Left's focus on underrepresented groups. "But there is a problem," he wrote, "with this left: it is unpatriotic. In the name of 'politics of difference,' it refuses to rejoice in the country it inhabits. It repudiates the idea of a national identity, and emotion of national pride."

"Relatedly, the end of the Cold War engendered a newly potent transnationalism, contemptuous of national boundaries and supportive of institutions of global governance. In this view, old loyalties were not just anachronistic but morally unsupportable. The social critic Richard Sennett wrote of "the evil of a shared national identity." Professor of law and ethics Martha Nussbaum warned of the "morally dangerous" dictates of "patriotic pride," commending instead a commitment to the "worldwide community of human beings."...

"As the long nationalist era after after the Civil War faded, so did the emphasis on patriotism in instruction. Patriotic themes disappeared from school readers steadily throughout the 20th century, and history itself has begun to vanish from our educational system.

"Less than a fifth of colleges and universities require their students to take an American-history or -government course. Of the top colleges and universities in the country, only a fraction require even history majors to take a course in American history, although they often have geographic distribution requirements (which helpfully exclude the United States). Gender, racial, class, and environmental history have captured the heart of the academy. Worse, of course, there has been a deliberate effort to trash America's statesmen and heroes as exemplars of racism, sexism, and classicism. 

"An anti-national history is, on top of everything, profoundly ungrateful. It fails to credit our ancestors for achievements on an epic scale. It fails to credit our ancestors for achievements on an epic scale. It denies the continuities of our history and our dependence on men and women who didn't know us but bequeathed us the marvel of America. It runs counter to the inscription that John Adams wrote on the tombstone of his fore Henry Adams: "This stone and several others have been placed in this yard, by a great great grandson from a veneration of the piety, humility, simplicity, prudence, patience, temperance, frugality, industry, and perseverance of his Ancestors, in hopes of recommending an imitation of their virtues to their Posterity."

George H. Kubeck,  REREAD THE THE TREASON OF THE ELITES