Worse, we are in danger of embracing a vision of America that betrays everything most Americans always believed was good and true about their country

The American Vision is up for grabs.

Older Americans are suddenly waking up to the realization that the familiar legends, landmarks, and lore they grew up with are either unknown by or unimportant to their grandchildren, and that a younger generation of political leadership is lurching the nation far to the left of where they think it ought to be. The notion of the United States as a noble experiment in human liberty and a grand melting-pot of the nations has been substituted for by a multi-ethnic and progressive vision of everything for everyone, courtesy of Washington.

Further, a plethora of group rights movements has practically knocked the unum out of the national motto in order to advance the cause of one or another of the pluribus.

The educational system is faltering; the infrastructures of our great cities are breaking down; a deep recession lingers like the smell of cooked fish; and disquiet and unrest are visible in the grass roots at both extremes of the political spectrum.

The popular culture has become banal, venal, and seamy, thus accelerating, by its very success, the erosion of the national character. And the Internet has become the number one meeting place for socializing, news-gathering, and porn-watching.

[Editor’s note: This article is incomplete. The source for this document was originally published on www.colsoncenter.org – however, the original URL is no longer available.]