Wallace–Goscinski
vs.
Malley–Tabatabai
Compare & Contrast of Heritage, Loyalty & Civilization
I can’t help it. I simply love my country — the United States of America. Deeply. Fiercely. Unapologetically.
My Polish heritage shaped my Catholic faith. And my Catholic faith is in my blood — inherited, lived, breathed. I cannot deny it any more than I can deny the American-Scottish-Polish heritage that formed me. It’s what makes me love people, love freedom, and love the Western Civilizational values that have proven, across centuries, to lift humanity.
I’m proud of that heritage.
I own that heritage.
I honor that heritage.
But heritage cuts both ways.
A person born into the long, historically rooted Shi’a culture — especially one connected to the old elite families, descended through the lineage of Muhammad — inherits a very different worldview. The Tabatabai line is one such example. Their scholars, clerics, and political theorists have shaped Shi’a political identity for centuries.
For families like these, the hierarchy of allegiance is ancient and unmistakable:
Shi’a faith → Shi’a heritage → Iran’s civilizational identity → the transnational cause →
and only then, far down the list, whatever “citizenship” they currently hold.
This isn’t accusation. It’s simply cultural and historical truth.
The Tabatabai elite tradition is steeped in the political theology that defines Shi’a Islam — a worldview woven into the psyche over generations. One does not abandon that identity overnight, nor subordinate it to a new passport. The regime in Iran — the Ayatollahs, the IRGC, the architects of Hezbollah — draws from these same lineages, the same worldview, the same sense of mission.
Enter their mirror-image allies in the West:
the atheist Marxists, raised not in faith, but in ideology.
The French salon radicals.
The anti-nationalist academies.
The children of elite Marxist families who, from birth, are trained to believe nations are illegitimate and America is the chief obstacle to their utopian dream.
So you get two very different inheritances —
one religious-civilizational, rooted in Shi’a identity,
one ideological-revolutionary, rooted in Marxist doctrine —
but both share the same rejection of America’s sovereignty and America’s mission.
This is how you end up with a pairing like Malley–Tabatabai.
Not because they share religion.
Not because they share nationality.
But because they share a worldview that places ideology and transnational allegiance above the United States.
Now compare that to Wallace–Goscinski —
faith, heritage, patriotism, and a love for America that is born from Western Civilizational values, not in opposition to them.
Two lineages.
Two worldviews.
Two destinies.
One rooted in love of country, Constitution, and civilization.
The other rooted in ideological movements that transcend and often oppose the nation-state itself.
America must learn to recognize the difference —
and defend the heritage that built this Nation.
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