David Strom:
As immigrants from third-world countries have started getting elected in the woke areas, they freely admit that their political priorities are not about improving America, but instead are focused on their fellow countrymen in this and their home countries.
Ilhan Omar regularly speaks in Somali to transplanted Somali migrants. Omar Fateh, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (Minnesota Democrats) candidate for Minneapolis Mayor, declared his allegiance to Somalia and Somalis, and now Representative Delia Ramirez of Illinois declares that she is a Guatemalan before she is American.
She was born here, by the way, but obviously is not a fan of the country that placed her in Congress.
This trend shouldn't surprise anyone. What did you think decolonization looked like, anyway? By now, we should know that for its advocates, it looks like October 7th and the invasion at the border.
In the view of the "decolonizers," America and the West are lands to be plundered, not homelands to become a part of. As Mamdani would say, it is time to "seize the means of production" and "eliminate private property"--or at least take the private property of Westerners and redistribute it to those more deserving.
More on anchor baby Ramirez from
John Hinderaker:
Nice try. But I have never heard an Irish-American, Italian-American, etc., announce that his primary loyalty is to the country of his parents’ birth, rather than to the United States, while serving in Congress. I am proud of my Norwegian ancestry, too, but it would not occur to me to say—in Norwegian!—that “I’m a proud Norwegian before I am an American.”
Ms. Ramirez is not especially consequential, although, to be fair, she does serve in Congress. But she is a sign of the times: the Democratic Party is no longer an American party. It is at best internationalist, and at worst—more often—anti-American.
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