Whose land?

In the American Thinker, William Sullivan writes,

I’d wager that there are few square miles of inhabitable land on the face of this planet over which some human beings were not, at some time or another in human history, killed in order to determine ownership of it. Only in modern times, and largely only in the West, is the prevailing belief that the best way to settle ownership of land is not through violence, but to allow noncitizen foreigners to make a legal petition for citizenship, which allows them to take part in the lawful acquirement of property in America through free exchanges of value while enjoying the rights of citizenship and equal protection under the law.

Who among us would argue that this is not a giant leap forward for humankind, accomplished within a tiny fraction of human history?

Unfortunately for us, in this tiny fraction of human history exist millions of young people who’ve never considered, at least with any serious or historically contextual thought, any period of time which existed before their own.

But the simple truth is that America stands as a shining beacon of humanity’s moral progress. It is not some unique testament to the supposed barbarism of a colonial past, however much the progressive Left might try to convince you otherwise.

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