The Federalist Papers : No. 2
Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence |
To the People of the State of New York:
WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a very comprehensive, as well as a very serious, view of it, will be evident...
It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, widespreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters forms a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation and exchange of their various commodities.
With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.
Would it be too churlish to think of every administration following the Eisenhower Administration as one Crash Test Dummies Collective?
When Ike was POTUS, America was at peace, the middle class was expanding and growing in wealth owing to the pay increases of Unionised wages, suburbs were beginning to blossom, there was controlled and legal immigration and 90% of American citizens were of the same Faith, Race and Language.
Things were good because Uniformity is Strength and Diversity is Weakness.