America Alone – the best geo political book I have read in years, is not only engaging, it’s educational. For instance, did you know that for a nation to maintain its population over time it takes 2.1 live births per woman? I had peripherally heard Chuck Colson mention something years ago about the worlds diminishing population, but frankly I wasn’t listening that closely. Come to think of it, I remember a professor at WMU screaming about the world population bomb back in college. We are all going to die like “rats breeding in a box”. Exactly the opposite is true. We in America are holding even, with the unknown variable of illegal immigration. Greece is at a fertility rate of 1.3, Italy is 1.2 and Spain is 1.1. No civilization in history has recovered from a rate less than 1.3!
Anyway- on to my main point.
The misinterpretation of the word “tolerance” is primarily at the root. To even question anything amoral is now “intolerant”. It used to be that a question answered incorrectly was held to disrepute. Now the question itself is disrepute. Because of this "tolerance" Europe is turning into Eurabia. France is on the precipice of giving into Sharia law.
Whatever else divides we Americans, we must hold to our exceptionalist traits given at our founding. It is the one unity on which we must insist if we are to survive.
