Author: Clifford Angell Bates, Jr. › American Greatness

Grievance and Forgiveness or Civil Strife

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June 14, 2021

Let us have no foolishness about this: those who peddle “white fragility” and “overcoming whiteness” are only selling hate and resentment. It is a recipe for civil war and dissolution.

Elbow Bumping Pols Promote Further Civic Rot

By Clifford Angell Bates, Jr.

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April 29, 2021

If handshakes were the sign of the recognition of civic friendship, the replacements suggest both contention between opposing parties and increasing atomization.

Shaking Hands Is Vital to American National Character

By Clifford Angell Bates, Jr.

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April 13, 2020

Dr. Fauci’s view, that to avoid infecting others in the future, the handshake should disappear as a social custom, privileges mere life at the expense of the good life and further undermines American civic life by ending a custom that directs us towards others and away from ourselves.

American Nationalism is Civic Not Ethnic

By Clifford Angell Bates, Jr.

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February 9, 2017

Many critics of Trump and his supporters argue that the president’s immigration policies are pushing America toward an ethnic identity nationalism that is wholly at […]