America at 250: Why Have So Many Lost Faith in America?

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America at 250: Why Have So Many Lost Faith in America?
Brian C. Joondeph


As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, a new poll reveals something that would have been almost unthinkable just a generation ago.

According to an Elon University survey, roughly two-thirds of Americans say they would rather live in the United States than any other country.

That’s reassuring.

What isn’t reassuring is that among Democrats, 55 percent would prefer to live somewhere else. Only 10 percent of Republicans feel the same way.

Think about that for a moment.

A majority of Democrats would rather live in another country than the one that has produced more freedom, prosperity, innovation, and opportunity than any nation in human history.

The poll raises an uncomfortable question: Is American exceptionalism dying?

For most of our history, patriotism was not a partisan issue. Americans disagreed about taxes, wars, immigration, religion, and countless other issues. Yet most shared a common belief that America was a special place.

Not perfect. Not flawless.

Special.

Millions crossed oceans to get here. Others risked prison or death escaping communist regimes to reach American shores. Few people spent their lives plotting elaborate escapes from the United States. They escaped to America.

Today, however, many Americans have been taught a very different story.

Instead of viewing America as history’s greatest success story, they are taught to see it primarily as a catalog of sins: slavery, racism, colonialism, inequality, privilege, oppression, and climate destruction.

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[Timber Rattler]

The poison has leeched into the various 250th anniversary celebrations, which are uncoordinated and ad hoc.

[Smokin Joe]

The youth have heard all their life that the world is coming to an end in just 10 years, from every direction. No wonder they've lost hope.

If the perceived threat of "environmental catastrophe" was not enough, they have been told they can never do well in the future, no matter how hard they try because some capitalist oligarchy has all the money.

Those who beat the drums of Communism (Socialism, too) blame all others and allow no responsibility for the good people manage to do, swimming against that tide.

Being successful has been branded as greedy, often by people of means who want to give away other people's money.

The list goes on, and despite all that alleging America is evil, it remains the best there is. Otherwise, those trash talking America would leave.