Primarily in the US you mean? Things are different in other countries. The A and in and aren’t having nearly as much difficulties with Capitalism.

The declaration is the first step in preventing government services to be offered in languages other than English.

Which “they” do you mean? What percentage of the pop was it?

Do you have a stake? Or are you just being pedantic?

To summarize: democracy is waning, and we have some rough times ahead, but there will be wins mixed in with the losses.

Can I reccomend for you Vlad Vexler on utube. He is a polital philosopher in the UK, whp spends most of his time dealing with this topic. He has some wonderul content which is both educated and humane.

Finnish and Estonian share a root - and I would call both languages Baltic. Latcian and Lithuanian share and equally ancient and separate root - but are still Baltic.

Hungarian not Baltic, but Finni-Ugrech.

You have a point, bit don’t carellessly deny them their Baltic definition.

Yes. That is how things work with large groups of people. One could even describe Leadership as the negotiation between groups of differing opinions. Good luck getting 10 people to agree on lunch.

The immigrants who are picking up the cheque, or the immigrants whose leaders are threatening to take over the country?

I’ll pay for my own - go and fix your country

Estonian is 100% a baltic language, but not a Slavic language. Latvian and Lithuanian are also not Slavic.

Estonian is hard, but it is rude to call it a punishment to learn.

Latvia did it a year ago, and the blowback has been less than expected. I saw a Documentary on it that interviewed Russian ethnic Latvians, and they seemed to accept it, as long as there were no social restrictions. There were of course Russian nationalists who objected, mainly the older generation.