New polling shows 70% of our fellow Americans believe ISIS is a major threat,

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11. The US, for all its preaching and love of Emma Lazarus...

is an amazingly bigoted and isolationist place, even if it weren't a nation of immigrants.

Native Americans, slaves and their descendants, Mexicans, Arabs and other Middle Easterners, women, Japanese... A lot of people we've discriminated against we still talk about, and still often discriminate against.

But what was done to the Germans during WWI included at least one lynching of a German-American citizen and other violence. The Chinese brought over to help build railroads were discarded when the railroads were built. The Irish immigrants, Poles... FDR refused to allow Jews to come here escaping the SS.

Just about every immigrant group we've ever had has been hated on arrival, and some long after. Mexico owned the Southwest, but after we took over, Mexicans whose families lived there for centuries were often booted out and their lands stolen.

Every one of them was called a "threat". Somehow going to destroy the US. But then, every one of them contributed greatly to the country, and helped build what it is today. today.

How come we don't learn?