A few years ago I was talking with some friends about the future of America, some of what I said has already turned out to be prophetic, and I said something about what would happen after America ceased to be. One friend became indignant, how dare I assume a future in which America didn't exist!

Well, let's take a look at it, shall we? Is there any country that has a guarantee of continued existence?

How about France, that darling of the left-wing elites? Its population, like most European populations is aging and unrestrained immigration is turning it into just another Muslim country. At the present rate of change give it another 50 years and France, as it has been, shall cease to exist. Sure, there will be a country named France but it will have a completely different identity than before.

French culture will be severely censored by the Muslim majority and liberty, fraternity and equality (which was honored more in the breach than in practice anyway) will be no more and purdah, the hajib, and dhimmitude will reign supreme.

Just about every European country will be in the same shape. No European country is unaffected, the great-nephew of Vincent Van Gogh was recently killed in the Netherlands because he made a film about Muslim subjugation of women which some Muslim thugs objected to.

America faces many of the same challenges with immigration pressures from Latin American countries changing the demographic makeup of our country. That, however, isn't what could spell the end for America as we know it. The problem isn't that we have a lot of immigrants coming in from Latin America, it is that these days immigrants aren't expected to melt in to existing communities.

The great melting pot that used to be America is now more like a freezer where everything in it keeps it original shape and texture and no mixing occurs.

When I was a kid I lived in Kansas City, Kan., and there were many different ethnic groups around. I never thought about it much. I just knew a lot of different kids. I loved Mrs. Golubski's povitica (okay, I'm not sure of the spelling) a bread made by rolling out dough very, very thin and spreading on a mixture of honey, butter and nuts before rolling into a log and baking in a loaf pan.

I used to trade Felix Tapia for the homemade tamales his mom sent in his lunch and another kid for the homemade bread sandwiches he hated but I loved.

During the summer families in the neighborhood would get together and have potluck dinners, one of the reasons summer was always considered the best time of year, that and the fact school was out. Italian, Mexican, Polish, Hungarian, and people from many other backgrounds shared their favorite foods, foods that became my favorites as well.

The one thing these families from very different backgrounds had in common was a fierce pride in becoming Americans. There was no desire ever expressed that America become more like their homelands, they had gone through and had overcome too much to want that.

Today it seems people, call them progressive or whatever name liberals want to be called now (notice how people who are up to no good like to change their name to fool others into thinking they're something they're not?), promote a definite un-American agenda and try to hide it by claiming they're promoting something worthwhile.

If Americans go along with the progriberals (why not put that word in the dictionary) we are headed toward the same fate as France and the rest of Europe, or as it is coming to be called Eurabia. To save America as we know it we have to get back to the fundamentals of our republic.

That doesn't mean going back to the days of Jim Crow or turning back the clock on voting rights or other civil rights. It means going back to letting the legislators legislate and judges who base opinions on the Constitution of the United States and not on what some half-baked numbskulls in Europe are doing. Otherwise the United States might still be called that but it will not be the country we live in today.