Victor Davis Hanson
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If an immigrant... Part of our problem with immigration is that we have no civic education, assimilation, acculturation, and no appreciation.
So you get Ilyan Omar coming here, and she blasts this country as garbage, and it has dictators, it's racist, or you have second-generation AOC, or you...
You have Mondami and immediately their parents or they come here and they're faced with a choice.
If you play the race victim card, this is one trajectory.
If you don't and you say you're really happy to be in this safe, prosperous, secure country and that's why my parents left Puerto Rico once.
or Uganda, or Somalia, and I was so lucky to get where I am because of these opportunities, then that trajectory is going to be a lot more difficult.
And so our society, because we've got so pathological, offers these choices, and most people take the easy way out.
All you have to do is say that you were a victim, your parents were a victim, your color, your religion, it's oppressive, and that...
That gives dividends.
And it will continue to give dividends until people say, I'm bored.
I've heard it so many times.
Grow up and be an adult.
Quit blaming everybody for your own inferiority complex or your own perception of unfulfilled life.
It's not my fault.
It's yours.
When she says, I thought it was them and not you.
No, Michelle, it's you.
It's not them.
Not some abstract them.
You were the most...