America has never appeared to be so
divided as it has during this election season. There seems to be no middle ground
anymore.
Take immigration. Donald Trump wants
to keep illegal immigrants and Musllims out. Hillary Clinton wants open borders
to our south and open arms for Syrian refugees. Trump
and his followers are not against immigrants. After all, this country was built
by immigrants. They brought different languages and different cultures, but
they all sought to assimilate and to make their fortune in this land of
opportunity. They might have been British, Germans, Italians, Poles, and Jews,
but they all wanted to be Americans. Their descendants on the Right view any
immigrant group that does not want to assimilate as rejecting America’s core
values and should therefore be barred the door.
Obviously, the Left does not see it
that way. It trumpets multiculturalism as necessary for the advancement of our
pluralistic society. Asian, Latino, and Middle Eastern immigrants all enrich
America. Never mind Mexicans who burn the American flag or Muslims who prefer
Sharia to our system of laws. Just give them time to assimilate.
Multiculturalism is not an evil nor a
goal to be achieved without qualification. If it is to benefit our nation, it
must be tempered by common sense and the realization that everything that is
different is not necessarily good—or bad. There is a middle ground on
immigration. I hope warring political factions can find it.
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