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I get what you're saying but I don't think that's the correct goal to aim at for America - it's a simplified vision, "get rid of the bad guys" type argument. Who disagrees with getting rid of the bad guys - especially when I know exactly what you're trying to say without reading any racism in a place there is none. I also think too much goes wrong historically with the "get rid of the bad guys" narrative - it's way too fickle depending on which way the wind is blowing. I definitely can see the left, right now, going "But! We're getting rid of the bad guys! They're bad, let's get rid of them!" (speaking politically and culturally almost entirely). Because everything you said you really don't care about - the left thinks they're the only ones who don't care about, it's YOU who are full of racism while they obsess on it incessantly.
It comes down to two things for me: Flag burning. I hate the idea of people burning the flag - people who do that don't usually like America very much. On the other hand, it's that same gut feeling as waiting to do the opposite of what the CCP does. You get arrested in other countries for burning the flag, the rest of your life can entirely go to shit or you can be killed for it. It's a literal example of what we can do here that some other countries can't do there.
Secondly, we have systems in place to watch out just for this kind of thing. We underestimated things like the long march through the institutions at our own peril. But today many of those institutions are literally not doing their job. Journalism overall is in the gutter (despite some good journalism still being out there), the moral and ethical lines have been scrubbed away so much as to be unrecognizable as lines anymore for the left. The answer, quite literally is to make America great again, though here I'm using it as a euphemism for fixing our broken institutions so they function like they're supposed and have in much of our past.
I think that's an oversimplification and will come off as more racist. I see it as the same argument Sam Harris had with Ben Affleck a few years back that really stirred shit up. Affleck couldn't see Harris' point which was (making up the numbers to make the point clear): 5% of Muslims might be real radicals, which is already high. Then there's another 8% that would cover or help them. I want nothing to do with that combined 13%. They tend to be the ones we hear about the most as well, because, well they're blowing up shit all around the world and being all around terrorists. I flip it around too, imagine if Americans were migrating elsewhere in the 1880s, and Britain was like "My chap, we do like you yanks, truly, we do, but 20% of you put on white robes and kill black people. Can't say I'm not growing very concerned, very concerned indeed!" It's still 80% that's not, and probably hates the ever living shit out of the other 20%.
I do think in general you're not correct but you're pointing in the right directions and many of the signs are there. I think it's worse off in the UK as well. I know you said in general, Somalians and Muslims, etc. In general. I also think the majority are more "Fuck yeah, I'm in America, this place is great." I just think we don't see that as patriots - they're just doing regular people shit, working wherever they work, etc. But the ones that don't culturally adapt over time to, that don't really get it's history and why it's different and why America is the way it is - they'll just keep on doing things the way they like as much as they can and keep pushing for that, because that's what they like. I'm fine with that to a degree but at the end of the day, we should all be on America's side, not trying to break it or fucking overthrow it.
Basically, fix our damn systems, make teaching US and contextual world history more important in education and that's going to fix the problem rather than going to a pure "get rid of the bad guys, they're bad." thing. Then we just need to work on Hollywood ;)
You don't understand memes very well at all.
Some memes are fundamentally incompatible, and should not be permitted to mix, lest the inevitable violent reaction occur and harm innocent bystanders.
Liberty and Islam are two such memes. Liberty and Communism are another pair that do not mix.