You’re preaching to the choir. I’m all for a common culture and societal pressure to adhere to it. But as circumstances are, the preexisting common culture in t

You’re preaching to the choir. I’m all for a common culture and societal pressure to adhere to it. But as circumstances are, the preexisting common culture in the US is no longer viable as this country is now heavily heterogenous, both ethnically and ideologically. You can try extracting aspects from the past culture that are still relevant but that’s clearly not acceptable to a sizable part of the country as they hold the parts most unacceptable- latent bigotry and the other- as the most crucial aspect of the previous common culture.