I have a secret plan to destroy America.  If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, let’s destroy America.  It’s is not that hard to do.  History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think.  No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.  Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that “an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.”

That’s the introduction of this speech given by former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm that raises some poignant thoughts on multiculturalism in the United States.

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 Via Don Davidson

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