Two Related Political Mistakes
1) One is the popular but knuckleheaded notion that “diversity is our strength”: that we can all live together, get along, and flourish despite deep differences in language, race, religion, culture, political convictions and basic values. This, the contemporary leftist-globalist open-border position either is or tends towards the idea that there are no limits on productive and mutually beneficial interaction among very different types of people. It either is or tends toward the conceit that a viable One can be made out of any Many.
This is e pluribus unum taken to an extreme and reduced to absurdity. The Latin dictum on our coinage has a rather more moderate meaning: it means that out of many individuals and geographical regions and states one nation can arise, provided that there are deep commonalities of language, culture, religion, and values. Whose values? Well, certainly not the values of sharia-supporting Muslims whose values are antithetical to traditional American values which are, in the main, the values of the Enlightenment. The Founders, for example, were anti-theocratic but not anti-religious.
2) The other mistake is the idea is that those who have, or believe they have, a superior worldview are justified in imposing it on others, by force if necessary, for their own good. Forced religious conversion is one form of this. A second is the ill-starred attempt at nation building which played a central role in the recent debacle in Afghanistan. You cannot impose upon people whose backward culture is downstream from an inferior religion a way of life that cuts against their grain and for which they lack the prerequisites. They would have had to have gone through something like our Enlightenment to to be able to benefit from our tutelage when it comes to setting up a viable system of governance.
3) The two mistakes may seem to pull in opposite directions. The first presupposes that we are all the same, have the same values, and want the same things. The second presupposes that some need to be 'straightened out' and taught the right way of doing things. But the mistakes share a common element, that it would be good to bring people together and that it is possible to do so. This is a failure to understand that there are irreconcilable differences. There is no way we can straighten out the Taliban and teach them how to live, especially when we are collapsing under the weight of our own decadence. 'Woke' madness and Western decadence is no cure for Islamist fanaticism any more than National Socialism is the cure for Communism.