America is great, but right wing as well

Despite the hard edged rhetoric from the right, America is still the most conservative country and economy in the first world. Despite what others may say, I and millions of so called liberals believe in the promises of the US Constitution:

     We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure
     domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the
     Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
     United States of America . . .

The America that the constitution founded was a country of radically different viewpoints and perspectives. It was a country composed of people of diverse lifestyles and cultures who recognized the need to come together for the common good. To get there each had to sacrifice some cherished beliefs and principles in the spirit of compromise. For almost all early Americans the resulting government was "too big" but they had seen the pain and isolation, the weakness and insecurity of small government. They recognized that in unity is strength. They recognized that a strong federal government with the power to tax was vital to national defense. Seventy or so years later we were told "A house divided against itself cannot stand." It is time to come together to rediscover our common ground and stand together.

There is no guarantee of the free enterprise system, and no prohibition of social welfare programs in the constitution. The ideals of government are apart from those notions. Likewise there is no guarantee of English as the primary or only language. 

What we as Americans seem to fear is that a large group of immigrants will come to this country and fail to assimilate. We fear that they will continue with their culture and traditions and eventually block mainstream Americans and American tradition from their life. We fear that these individuals, who came primarily for agricultural opportunity, will then rise up and overthrow the legitimate government. What we fear is our own history in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas, but what we should be fearing is that of which Franklin Roosevelt warned us, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." It is fear that will divide us, it is understanding that will unite us.