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Ronald Reagan on why immigrants make America great: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to… pic.twitter.com/sp4TlvHvsp
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) December 26, 2024
It doesn’t surprise me, but I hadn’t seen it. Ronald Reagan gave a speech about how diversity is our greatest strength and how anyone in the world can become an American.
Reagan is seen as the avatar of conservatism. Every single one of these people references Reagan. He was actually a horrible persona and a horrible president.
So I’m not surprised he did the “anyone can be an American” thing.
The requirement to become an American?
To believe in freedom.
Have you ever heard of a person who is “against freedom”?
Even in North Korea, Kim gives speeches about the importance of freedom.
Everyone on earth is pro-freedom, in the same way everyone on earth is pro-food.
If believing in freedom means you’re an American in waiting, then everyone on earth is already an American, they are just waiting to get their papers.
That means America is not actually a country. I don’t think it’s right to say it’s “an idea” either, because that doesn’t even make sense. It’s not an idea, it’s a place. Ideas are not physical objects in the way a mass of land is. But if everyone on earth has a right to become an American, and therefore de facto already is an American, there is no such thing as an American.
What they will try to say when you say a country can’t be an idea is that members of the nation hold a set of ideas and that’s what defines them as part of the same nation. It’s nothing to do with race. And it’s not ideas around religion. Or any kind of politics.
These same people will say “Americans can disagree with one another.”
You just have to believe in freedom, and you can define that freedom however you want.
I don’t know why Reagan was a saint to the boomers. I read a short book about him years ago, but it was written by a leftist. I know he deregulated everything and there were some good things about that along with all of the overwhelmingly negative things about that. Like, sometimes when I’m depressed, I watch 1980s cartoons, and before Reagan, most of these cartoons were illegal because they were advertisements for toys and advertising to kids was regulated.
I think mainly it was just an incredibly wealthy period in American history which happened to coincide with the collapse of communism. It was the beginning of the boomers lighting everything on fire and just burning it all down.
And the poison ideology that “everyone on earth is an American in waiting” is really at the core of boomerism. The boomers were a very selfish people, and they really liked goofy, saccharine feel-good gibberish like “America is the greatest country on earth.”
