A nation that does not have the tribal bonding you get with a common culture - a nation that has actually, officially discarded the idea of a common culture as "exclusionary” - is more fragile than most. What happened to the USSR could happen to us, perhaps is happening already by slow degrees. We conservatives, who stand in dissident opposition to the reigning dogmas of liberalism and multiculturalism, as much braver souls like Andrei Amalrik stood in dissident opposition to the Marxist-Leninist dogmas of the USSR - we need to keep speaking these simple truths out loud.