{"id":1201,"date":"2018-11-08T12:12:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inamerica.us\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2020-09-02T06:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T11:30:40","slug":"e-pluribus-unum-one-from-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inamerica.us\/index.php\/politics\/e-pluribus-unum-one-from-many\/","title":{"rendered":"E PLURIBUS UNUM &#8211; ONE FROM MANY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>E PLURIBUS UNUM<\/strong>\u201d is a Latin inscription on the Great Seal of the United States. It means \u201c<strong>ONE FROM MANY.<\/strong>\u201d This was one of those ideas that made America great; a land of one people united under the founding principles of liberty and freedom enshrined in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence\">Declaration of Independence<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Constitution\">Constitution of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/inamerica.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/greatseal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inamerica.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/greatseal2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/inamerica.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/greatseal2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inamerica.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/greatseal2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>The Great Seal was adopted by an Act of Congress in 1782 and for most of American history was the unofficial motto of the United States.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a fact of history that Americans have not always lived up perfectly to those ideals. They were in fact difficult ideals to live up to. The vast span of human history is a witness that few had ever \u2013 before America \u2013 either understood or attempted to live up to these high ideals. Americans paid a heavy price for their failures.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War#Costs\">There were over 1 million lives lost in the Civil War<\/a>&nbsp;that finally ended slavery in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once upon a time people came to America for an opportunity to work and create a better life for themselves and their families. They expected to earn that new and better life through their own hard work and perseverance.&nbsp;For immigrants arriving in America in the 18th and 19th century America was an opportunity, not an entitlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>One from many<\/strong>\u201d was truly one of the ideas that made America great. If we want to make America great again then we need to focus on uniting, not on dividing. No matter our race, sex, or where our families may have come from in the past, or done to each other in the past, we are all Americans now. That is something that we as Americans have every right to &nbsp;be proud of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However some people in America are doing everything they can to divide Americans into rival tribes, not to make America great, but to gain political power.\u00a0They preach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Identity_politics\">Identity Politics<\/a>\u00a0where the principle is to divide Americans over claims of grievance and entitlement. If they had a Latin motto it would be \u201c<strong>EX UNO PLURES<\/strong>,\u201d meaning, \u201c<strong>MANY OUT OF ONE.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Identity Politics your value as a person does not depend\u00a0on what you have accomplished in life. In Identity Politics your value and worth as a person depends on the color of your skin, or your gender identity, or your national origin, or how you like to practice sex. It sets blacks against whites, gays against straights, and women against men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This kind of politics divides people along lines of identity and grievance and then unites them under the umbrella of a political platform that promises entitlements and revenge against the perceived oppressors. Perhaps that is why so many of those preaching Identity Politics get so angry over the phrase \u201cMake America Great Again.\u201d If we actually solved many of the problems in America they would lose their bid for political power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That makes me wonder if these people really want to solve problems? Somehow I don\u2019t think so. Their agenda is to keep people divided and angry at each other. That is where their power comes from. \u00a0They are simply practicing a very old tactic in politics, the tactic of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Divide_and_rule\">divide and conquer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As people who are still proud to be Americans we need to do just the opposite. We need to work to unite. \u201cE PLURIBUS UNUM\u201d should be our guiding principle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cE PLURIBUS UNUM\u201d is a Latin inscription on the Great Seal of the United States. It means \u201cONE FROM MANY.\u201d This was one of those ideas that made America great; a land of one people united under the founding principles of liberty and freedom enshrined in the\u00a0Declaration of Independence\u00a0and the\u00a0Constitution of the United States. 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