Suicidal Nation**Edited**

Suicidal Nation

In October 2003, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a speech promoting or discouraging I'm not sure which, Victor Hanson Davis's book, Mexifornia "Exposing the plan to destroy America." Recently I heard it replayed on a radio program.  It has really stuck with me! I went looking for it online and found it in print. I actually found it in many places and apparently the speech was given more than once. Google it.  It's scary that this democrat, 12 years ago, described exactly how a great country like the USA could be destroyed in 8 steps. He said:

"If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'" 

So, how do all great nations commit suicide?   Before the speech began, I thought, do nations really do that? As I listened I understood more than I wanted to. It's scary that we as a nation have come so close so fast! It's never too late to turn back, but will our country turn back? Have we already made the cut so deep we'll just bleed out? Will we seek the truth that will enable the bleeding to stop or are we just ready to lay down, close our eyes to the truth, and die?

Lamm goes on to say, "First to destroy America, Turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar Seymour Lipset put it this way: 'The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans." 

English, as I always thought, was the language we should all speak. My great grand parents coming over from Sweden in the early 1900s, thought so. It's part of assimilation, or absorbing into and becoming a part of a wider society, people ideals, and culture. Nothing wrong with holding on to your native language, speak it among your friends and family and in your home, but LEARN ENGLISH TOO. If not it causes further separation. How would laws and the constitution be understood without knowing English?  We shouldn't be pushing another button for another language.

Lamm continued to say, "Second, to destroy America, "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds."

Third, "We could make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: 'The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved! Not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentrically and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.'" 

Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America reinforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."  

I love that description, and hate it. It is a correct view and a good way to see it, but it makes me sad.  America doesn't seem to be a melting pot any more where many come together and melt as one. It's a salad bowl where many have come together and yet stay separate. Cultures clash and unity is diminishing. 

"Fourth" as Lamm says, "I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school." 

Still he continued, "My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population." 

Don't we see this happening now?! it's today's reality...

"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity! Unity is what it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshiped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic Games. 

A common enemy Persia threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to over come two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. 

"E. Pluribus Unum" — From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo." 

"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits ~ make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'x! xenophobes' halt discussion and debate."

Sounds a lot like political correctness to me and like  all the things that we are being forced to accept as being the new right thing to believe. 

Finally Lamm adds, "Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them." 

So, to recap... We take away our national language, create multiculturalism, accept only  tolerance and pluralism, and celebrate diversity instead of unity, blame minority's failure on the majority population, grant dual citizenship/dual loyalties, create political correctness, and open our borders wide open because that is what America was founded on people looking for a better place to live. Who cares about all the strain and tension all these concepts puts on a country? When your open to everything, you never know what you're going to let in. Turn your head or close your eyes you'll miss out on what is coming at you. In our world today, it's not always going to be good. Are people ready to accept the consequences of their actions? Good and BAD? 

While our world and country are changing fast, it's not the country my family members proudly choose to defend across the generations, we are rushing into something big, and still my Hope and future will lie in Jesus Christ! Where is yours?

20 What sorrow for those who say
    that evil is good and good is evil,
that dark is light and light is dark,
    that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. Isaiah 5:20

 For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.

2 Timothy 4:3

Who and what are we listening to? What do we want to hear?

"If we don't hang together, we'll hang separately,"- Ben Franklin