Reply #4: I agree it's a slippery slope.

[Heidi]

Better ways of unifying Americans would be affordable health care; the extension equal, human rights to all; and a return to Constitutional government. I see the whole "national language" thing as another way of polarizing us; look how well the tactic has worked even among liberals.

In fact, I'd like to see the US requiring kids to begin learning a second language in elementary school. I wish that'd been a requirement when I was a kid, instead of an elective encouraged only for "college bound" high school students.