Matt Walsh on Nostr: Driving through a rural town this week. Stop at a local mom and pop convenience ...

Driving through a rural town this week. Stop at a local mom and pop convenience store. Sign outside advertising great lunch food is faded and weather worn. Obviously the place has been around for a long time.

Go inside and it’s nothing but foreigners speaking a different language. They don’t make lunch anymore. The interior looks like any generic dumpy gas station you’d find in any grimy city in America. Look it up later and sure enough: this was a favorite local spot for many years. Recently foreigners bought it and stripped it of everything that made it beloved. Now they mostly sell lotto tickets, pipes, and vapes.

This is happening everywhere in America, of course. You can’t even escape it out in the country. I’m told that multiculturalism adds variety and enrichment to our lives. The opposite is true. It strips away the local culture. It gives you less variety, not more. It makes a rural convenience store indistinguishable from a shitty gas station in Baltimore or Chicago or anywhere else. It reduces everything to the lowest common denominator. That’s what they mean when they talk about “diversity.”