The Fabric of Our Nation

The true test of a country is not how much it will allow but how strong the fabric it weaves can remain. As with any cloth there is room for expansion but it should not be stretched out to accommodate anything and everything. The society that we have is like a high quality fabric. It is new (still fresh out of Europe in historical terms) and yet has taken on its own weave as our history unfolds. We have had immigration from other countries that actually has helped our fabric strengthen. We have emancipated slaves and given the right to vote to almost everyone and this too has added to and made the fabric of our society stronger. Still, there are danger signs on the fringes that threaten to unravel all that we have worked so hard to weave.

There must be a point where we say that stretching the fabric of our society will weaken the weave as a whole. Far from accommodation being a show of strength, it shows that we are in danger of changing that cloth to the point that we no longer recognize the fabric when taking a picture from a macro point of view. There is a call by liberals to “go European” in America in all things from religion, drug use, prostitution and health care. We came out of Europe for reasons that things weren’t right over there and we in turn created the greatest societal weave known to man that the world remains in awe of to this day. To go backwards would be to unravel all that we have achieved.

Proposition 8 was passed in California and established a pro-marriage stance that is one of the major linchpins of our society: ensuring the best way to assure the continuance of our population into the future. A judge does not have the moral authority to negate this because it will lead to: what can we stretch our fabric to next? Simply allowing anything to be legal does not make us stronger, we need limits in all things like children do or we will end up standing for nothing and falling for anything. You can rest assured that in all things like the state of marriage, health care, government intervention, wanting to make all people equal financially, etc. there is more to come to the point that it will make us weaker. There will always be someone who wants to cross the next line drawn in the sand. Immigration has been changed from whom do we welcome to who don’t we welcome. The people coming from Mexico are now different in that human smuggling, drug trade, kidnapping are in their scope. Things change and so must our view of different issues to keep our fabric strong.

The strength in being a parent doesn’t come from being willing to say yes to everyone but in knowing when to say no and standing firm. So it is with our country. There is no way Obama can promise everyone economic prosperity because all he can and should do is to provide the climate to help everyone achieve this on their own. His main weakness comes in promising everything to everyone and thus making no one happy and the result is a faltering presidency that seems on the verge of collapse. This constant preaching to America as to what we should do and how he will do it for us is as foreign as adopting Europe as our own. We are Americans first, all we ask is a sound set of norms we can count on to try and succeed, and it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure this continues. As with the mosque controversy, just because you may technically have the right to do something, doesn’t mean it is the right thing to do. I am sure we will find that there is more to that than meets the eye.