Multiculturalism
Must Die
The
war over American inheritance.
Cole Ellison |
November 5, 2026 www.americanthinker.com
I
pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands, one Nation,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Those
words were written by Francis Bellamy in 1892 to celebrate the 400th
anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage. 134 years after Bellamy wrote
these words, this pledge, along with Christopher Columbus, seem almost entirely
abandoned.
But
that’s not all—Americans have begun to abandon the idea of America, and when
you abandon an idea, another will force its way into that space. So, what is
filling the void, and how do Americans reclaim what so many have foolishly
given up?
America
is the culmination of thousands of years of passed-down principles, virtues,
traditions, and prejudices that have shaped what modern American minds call
Western Civilization. To track these ideas down, it would be a travesty to
start anywhere other than Greece—a people who recognized the Kosmos as orderly,
believing them to be knowable through rational reasoning. The civilization that
took the veil off of the purely mythical and began the journey to science,
philosophy, and objective truth. This treasure was the Logos. Yet a radical
concept emerged from the greatest thinkers of this time, asserting that human
beings possess the capacity for self-government. People are capable of making
moral choices and having a hand in their destiny. This is the Telos. And then
the principle that a higher objective moral order exists in human nature and
that this was separate from any government or any king. This is natural law.
One
of the defenders of this inheritance was the Roman Empire. Roman jurisprudence
and truly landmark documents like the Magna Carta advanced the ideas that the
people graciously inherited. The principle that laws must apply equally to all,
including rulers, was a gift worth defending. The recognition that human nature
is fundamentally flawed and easily corrupted is another stepping stone towards
the higher good. The idea of checks and balances can be traced to the Roman
Republic, and Montesquieu could never have perfected it without his inheritance
being closely guarded and passed down. The idea that to have a flourishing
economy, personal liberty, and independence from the government, you needed to
be able to own property and your own labor is a cornerstone upon which our
nation today rests. The mere idea that government power and legitimacy come
strictly from the will and consent of the citizens rather than by conquest of a
people is foundational to all of the West.
These
ideas were developed and guarded by great men who poured out their blood and
the blood of their enemies to pass this inheritance to those alive today. Yet
all of these systems and ideas were ultimately found lacking, and the West was
not yet complete.
Imago
Dei. Image of God. This is the rock upon which the West could be forged into
the future. The foundational idea that asserts the individual man is created in
the sight of God and possesses a moral equality that transcends all worldly
governments and institutions.
The
classical virtues that built the West rested upon the pillars of prudence,
justice, fortitude, and temperance.
Unlike
all other cultures throughout history, the West did not view history as an
endless repeating cycle. Instead, it viewed it as moving towards a purpose and
pushed forward toward moral, social, and cultural progress.
America
did not invent these ideas, and societies have rediscovered them over time.
History becomes lost to time, civilizations conquer problems, and they cease to
be issues. Yet issues never vanish completely. And once they rear their ugly
head, a new civilization must delve into the chaos. It must rediscover the ideas
that saved the ones who came before or join their ancestors in history.
So
could Aristotle and Plato have been merely following their ancestral prejudices
to the conclusions they came to on the structure of the kosmos? Plato argued
there was a single supreme form of Good or cosmic architect of the kosmos.
Aristotle mathematically deduced that the universe required an “unmoved mover,”
a first cause that started everything. These ideas were very different from the
polytheistic beliefs of the Greeks.
It
is time to recover the knowledge of our ancestors and to reestablish the truths
once held as self-evident. If Aristotle and Plato, in the face of adversity,
came to these conclusions, then there is no excuse for Americans today not to
do the same.
The
American ethos and culture is that of a warrior and highly religious people.
Steeped in Christendom and ancient principles, the idea that formed the West
cultivated a country like no other seen before. These people were aware of
their shared history and knew the consequences of their failure when they began
the fight for their independence. This American spirit led Francis Scott Key to
say, “O say can you see.” It is the spirit that led Americans across the Great
Plains into the wilderness with nothing more than belief in a higher purpose
worth pursuing. The same spirit that placed a man on the moon. The American
spirit is more than just an idea, though. It is that inheritance that has been
passed down from all of these civilizations, from the West, and from
Christendom. It is shared principles, morals, history, and ancestry, and when
understood as such, it is a rightly ordered spirit. Abandoning any of these
four ideas leads to a chaotic, disordered spirit. It leads to people who
believe that being American is nothing more than geography, history, or
ancestry.
Today,
Americans see people who, in large part, have abandoned either of these four
ideas or believe there is nothing worth fighting for… and that anybody can be
American. This idea is deeply damaging and has nearly cost Americans everything
their ancestors built. They have forgotten what the treasures in our society
are, and now they are being plundered. It is time to wake up and realize
multiculturalism’s failure.
A
nation cannot survive for long while importing millions of people who have no
connection to the traditions, principles, and history that formed it. When mass
legal and illegal immigration transforms a country’s national character,
undermines assimilation, and weakens its connection to its own inheritance, the
nation will falter.
America
is losing its shared principles, morals, history, and ancestry to conquerors
marching in the front gates. Just as destructive as the unassimilated migrants
are those who lie about this great nation to subvert the spirit of this
country. A country that abandons the civilization that formed it cannot expect
to preserve its character when the people shaping its future no longer share
that inheritance.
It
is time to accept the West’s inheritance, reunite the culture under the shared
history our ancestors fought for, which goes back over 4,000 years, and fight
for future generations of Americans.
