Any one man or institution that says both “America is a land of Immigrants” and “Colonialism is evil” is actually concealing—perhaps unwittingly—an opposition to America and Americans. Such a progressive man wants to deny the property and citizenship rights of the colonists and their descendants, while also using those same colonists and their descendants to justify mass immigration.
Progressives could speak more consistently if they admitted that colonists are different from immigrants, and that mass immigration is a new phenomenon in America unsupported by traditional laws or political norms. They don’t make this argument because making this argument would mean they couldn’t appeal to tradition on behalf of immigration. They couldn’t claim people opposed to immigration are un-American. They themselves couldn’t be the proud Americans carrying forth the traditions of their nation. They would have to state plainly that they are ashamed of America and trying to change it.
If they are ashamed of America and not genuinely patriotic, a couple problems arise for them. First, if they are ashamed of America, why do they think so many people want to come to America? I have met people ashamed of their small, dying, backwards towns. They don’t have to worry about immigrants. Or they didn’t until state and federal governments started shipping immigrants into them.[1]
Second, if they aren’t genuinely defending America, their promotion of mass immigration is an attack on America or at least an attempt to change—improve—America. The desire to improve the nation is not altogether unpatriotic. But calling the founding generation and the American colonials evil, always taking the side of the natives against the colonists and of immigrants against the descendants of colonists, betrays an essential hatred of, or strong prejudice against, America and Americans.
Such a progressive who pushes mass immigration and hates America’s colonial origins must, logically, formulate a distinction between America and those colonial origins. The colonial origins are “Western,” or “European,” or just “white.” Which is to say, to no one’s surprise, that progressives today are motivated by anti-white or “anti-Western” ire.
[1] Resettlement agencies are operated at the federal and state levels of government. Only Wyoming refuses to participate in the frenzy of public spending and voter disenfranchisement that our politicians euphemistically call “refugee resettlement.”