https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/george_washingtons_prescient_words.html
As the man who was “first in the hearts of his countrymen,” George Washington wrote guiding principles for the newly established country in his Farewell Address of 1796. He stressed:
… that the ‘national Union’ formed the bedrock of ‘collective and individual happiness’ for U.S. citizens. As he explained, ‘The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local distinctions.’
We see the degradation of this idea of patriotism as the left continually hammers away that America is the nexus of evil. One need only read the 1994 book titled Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, which states in its introduction that the “nostalgic vision of a simple, harmonious past … obscures the long history of oppression within the United States.” The editors choose “not to be all inclusive [or] create a pluralistic play of voices.” Instead, they choose “poems that directly address the instability of American identity and confront the prevalence of cultural conflict and exchange within the United States … [in order] to highlight the constant erecting, blurring, breaking, clarifying, and crossing of boundaries that are a consequence of the complex intersections among people’s cultures, and languages within national borders.”
Hail to the fact that the country is not afraid to deal with its past, but woe to the students who receive such a skewed and narrow interpretation of what the country has accomplished.
Dinesh D’Souza writes in his Death of a Nation that “in other countries, a flag is just a flag, but in America … the flag is the symbol of a founding event, emerging out of the Revolutionary War that articulated principles that could only be fully expressed almost ninety years later in the aftermath of one of the bloodiest civil wars in history.” America is “a product of design that gave rise to an American dream[.] … There is no such thing as a French dream, an Indian dream, a Chinese dream. Identity in other countries is based on birth and blood; but in America it is based on embracing American ideals and the American way of life. That’s why the American tribe is so multiracial and includes white people, black people and brown people.”