The story of the United States is upbeat, a miracle in fact, and one that the nation should always celebrate before all the analysis, what ifs, too bads, and criticism commence. It is absolutely appropriate for a nation’s government to begin from a positive viewpoint in educating and inspiring its own citizens. To do otherwise is national suicide: be open about the mistakes, the errors, the embarrassments, the villains and their victims, but only in the context of a national saga that any other nation would sell their soul to equal. This was the first successful republic in a major nation since Ancient Greece. Its commitment to individualism, risk-taking, courage and idealism is unmatched in world history. Most nations have to indulge in large portions of national amnesia to assert genuine pride. We don’t. The world would unquestionably be a much worse place, if it existed at all, were there no United States of America.
“The leftist radicals of the 1960s and 1970s dissented” because they were deluded, stoned, silly and sophomoric. How has that free sex worked out, guys? What about all the drugs? “If it feels right, do it”? Multi-culturalism? Affirmative action? Today’s leftist radicals are, if anything, more foolish and destructive, because they actively dislike their own nation, the Constitution, our institutions, our history and traditions, and have been warped by a rose-tinted glasses view of socialism, a toxic form of economic sleight of hand that has failed everywhere it has been tried.
Donald Trump’s positive view of our revolution is an appropriate and correct one for a U.S. President as a national bench mark approaches, especially when an entire political party’s strategy to regain power is to claim that everything is terrible. Why do so many Americans believe their revolution was superior to others? Because it was. Russia’s first revolution was a catastrophe. Its second was a failure. France’s revolution brought a homicidal democracy followed by a dictatorship. England’s revolution was a bloody mess, though it did cement a constitutional monarchy. China’s revolution killed somewhere between 20 and 60 million Chinese. Cuba’s revolution was another disaster. The U.S.’s Civil War, a revolution to maintain the selling of human beings as chattel, was misguided and doomed from the start.
An 2026 NBC News Poll claims that only 29% of Democrats say they are extremely or very proud of the country, compared to 90% of Republicans. I question the poll, which I think reflects age and demographics more than true societal attitudes, but it validates Trump’s ‘bluster,” and tells me, at least, who are “the bad guys.”
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This “can’t celebrate America” theme being parroted by anti-American progressives.
I’ve seen that “can’t celebrate America” theme creeping into conversations with Democrats routinely these days. These people have collectively lost their narrow little minds, it’s hive mind cultish.
I noticed the hatred of America or the embarrassment for being American in high school in the 1980’s. It was evident that Democrats hated this country, even then. The Democratic Party has had an entire generation raised on the hatred of this country. They had to destroy the education system to make it stick, however. We are doomed as a country if we can’t find a way to get rid of our Communist public education system.
The Europeans have always hated, feared, and misunderstood the United States. They are still aristocratic societies and look down on us as a nation of commoners. Although our culture started from European culture, it is different. The most recent example of this difference was starkly shown when our 2 airmen were rescued in Iran. Trump hailed their rescue as a great success. European leaders insisted he was lying because the mission resulted in the destruction of 2 cargo planes and some helicopters. The Europeans truly believe that we wouldn’t trade a couple of 50 year old cargo planes for the life of a pilot. They don’t believe we would because they wouldn’t. I read the rebuttal from several British service members who basically said “No, the Americans really are like that.” They related that if you were a member of the British military surrounded by the enemy, you prayed that your rescue had been delegated to the Americans, because the Americans were coming for you, no matter how many of them were killed or wounded in the process. The British military, in contrast, would spend several days doing a cost/benefit analysis before informing you that your rescue was too costly and tell you to try to surrender.
I assumed it was standard issue MS NOW or New York Times or Washington Post editorial stuff.
Funny how everyone in the world gets a vote in American politics, particularly presidential elections. Americans don’t seem to indulge themselves in this busy-body-ness. Maybe it’s because Americans don’t really understand parliamentary governments and elections.
My bet is it’s more likely that Americans could not identify their nearest national parliamentary neighbor – for ignorance of geography or the definition of the word parlaiment.
While I have great pride in America and all its accomplishments, I worry about the rising communist movement taking hold. It cannot be ignored. It isn’t just in NY, it is spreading, and for the terribly educated youth it is a siren call. It has been a very long time since anyone has taught them about the evils of communism, socialism, excessive taxation, government overreach, etc. They really believe the promises of free stuff, and they don’t stop and do the simple arithmetic to see how long Elon Musk’s extra taxes will last in this bloated Federal budget. Normal people cut spending when there isn’t enough revenue for all their needs and wants. Governments never do.
The story of the United States is upbeat, a miracle in fact, and one that the nation should always celebrate before all the analysis, what ifs, too bads, and criticism commence. It is absolutely appropriate for a nation’s government to begin from a positive viewpoint in educating and inspiring its own citizens. To do otherwise is national suicide: be open about the mistakes, the errors, the embarrassments, the villains and their victims, but only in the context of a national saga that any other nation would sell their soul to equal. This was the first successful republic in a major nation since Ancient Greece. Its commitment to individualism, risk-taking, courage and idealism is unmatched in world history. Most nations have to indulge in large portions of national amnesia to assert genuine pride. We don’t. The world would unquestionably be a much worse place, if it existed at all, were there no United States of America.
“The leftist radicals of the 1960s and 1970s dissented” because they were deluded, stoned, silly and sophomoric. How has that free sex worked out, guys? What about all the drugs? “If it feels right, do it”? Multi-culturalism? Affirmative action? Today’s leftist radicals are, if anything, more foolish and destructive, because they actively dislike their own nation, the Constitution, our institutions, our history and traditions, and have been warped by a rose-tinted glasses view of socialism, a toxic form of economic sleight of hand that has failed everywhere it has been tried.
Despite what Mr Old Bill has said about me (that I am “anti-American”), it is not so. What I notice however is a dualism in America’s psyche. I’ve tried to understand what it is and where it comes from, and perhaps it arises from America’s Puritan past? Where Americanism became infused with religiousness and the sense of having been empowered by God. Manifest destiny that need not ask too many questions because, beyond any doubt, Americanism is goodness itself.
The problem with a “critical position” is that those who criticize can become possessed by critical moods that become undermining and destructive. For one example: When I was researching Sixties radicalism I came across a very worthy book called “The Spirit of the Sixties: The Making of Postwar Radicalim”. The origins of that critical radicalism came out of the Ban the Bomb movement and was Christian and Catholic in internal philosophy. It came out of philosophical and religious Personalism (such for example the Catholic Worker organization of Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day). It was in its essence extremely humanistic in its commitments.
I was both influenced and confused by Robert Bork’s harsh critique of that “spirit” for the simple reason that his view, though articulate and coherent, was also partial — or perhaps prejudiced is the word? It is in the music of that era that the intensely idealistic spirit of its humanism (and personalism) is evident and felt. Two examples: Get Together and Joni Mitchell’s Woodstock. You can ridicule its idealism but you cannot dismiss the deeply felt (religiously felt in fact) commitment to high ideals.
And at the same time, and even with the influence if such idealism, the entire generation worked very hard to undermine established hierarchies. And then of course there came along the (literal) Marxist revolutionaries who took advantage of the critical opening to very literally work (as they openly declared) to undermine and overthrow the State.
I do not think we should be getting complacent in the USA, and invoke ethics estoppel on any criticism on the USA from an English newspaper due to the grim situation in the UK (rape gang report, hate speech prosecutions, and other issues).
In 1935 Sinclair Lewis wrote a dystopian novel with the title “It can’t happen here!”, about the rise of a charismatic leader that proceeds to dismantle the institutions that make the USA the USA, leading to a civil war. Democrats may point at that book and point at Trump , and Republicans will point at the one-party state California to see the prophesies of this book taking fruition. Benjamin Franklin once said “A Republic, if you can keep it”.
As most of the EA commenters trend conservatives, imagine the following:
On immigration we would revert back to Biden level policies, with the borders wide open. Nobody ever gets deported.
On free speech the Democrats are in favor of restrictions. The social media companies moderated content at the behest of FBI, NSA, and other government agencies to suppress content such as the Hunter Biden laptop story; this included cancellations of accounts. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once said that social media companies must moderate content on their platforms or else “we lose total control.”. Hillary Clinton also supports the European Union’s efforts to regulate online speech and combat disinformation. She has been a vocal advocate for the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), urging transatlantic allies to implement the regulations to hold tech platforms accountable for amplifying extremism and harmful content.
So can what is transpiring in the UK today happen here? I think it is possible, and all that is needed is a blowout victory for the Democrats.
We should therefore not gloat about commentary in a center of left English newspaper. Despite the American revolution 250 years ago, the USA is maybe much closer to the UK under Labour, and the EU bureaucracy than you may appreciate. We are one blow out victory away for the Democrats, to turn the USA into California, with a permanent Democrat majority. We will still appreciate the fireworks, barbeques and parades at July the 4th, but that holiday would be effectively meaningless as the American Revolution will be undone by a permanent leftwing bureaucracy.