Who’s betraying America? America

In the previous blog entry, I focused on the Jewish and Catholic contribution to the campaign to destroy America via open borders. Of course, Protestants, including not least the founding American group, the Anglo-Saxon Protestants, as currently represented by the messiah from West Texas, George W. Bush, are just as much involved in the rush to national suicide. Which brings to mind the following. In 1955 Will Herberg, a Jew, wrote his famous Protestant—Catholic—Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology. Herberg’s book, which articulated a unified American majority culture formed along predominately Anglo-American lines, in which members of all three religions participated in comity, was an important source for Milton Gordon’s excellent 1964 book, Assimilation in American Life (Gordon was also Jewish), which I drew on heavily in The Path to National Suicide.

It now occurs to me that in order to describe present realities, so horribly different from those of America’s hey-day in the 1950’s and early 1960s, we need to a new book entitled:

Protestant—Catholic—Jew:
An Essay on American National Betrayal

Here is a passage of Herberg’s that I quoted in The Path to National Suicide. It shows how far we have fallen from our once confidently particularistic sense of ourselves as a nation and a people:

The enthusiasts of the “melting pot” … were wrong … in regard to the cultural aspect of the assimilative process. They looked forward to a genuine blending of cultures, to which every ethnic strain would make its own contribution and out of which would emerge a new cultural synthesis, no more English than German or Italian and yet in some sense transcending and embracing them all. In certain respects this has indeed become the case: our American cuisine includes antipasto and spaghetti, frankfurters and pumpernickel, filet mignon and french fried potatoes, borsch, sour cream, and gefullte fish, on a perfect equality with fried chicken, ham and eggs, and pork and beans. But it would be a mistake to infer from this that the American’s image of himself—and that means the ethnic group member’s image of himself as he becomes American—is a composite or synthesis of the ethnic elements that have gone into the making of the American. It is nothing of the kind: The American’s image of himself is still the Anglo-American ideal it was at the beginning of our independent existence. The “national type” as ideal has always been, and remains, pretty well fixed. It is the Mayflower, John Smith, Davy Crockett, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln that define the American’s self-image, and this is true whether the American in question is a descendant of the Pilgrims or the grandson of an immigrant from southeastern Europe.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 06, 2006 04:16 PM | Send