When I look at the graph from CNN about being a proud American, I can see the percentages of how well propaganda works and with which group it is so successful with. This extends out over many subjects and issues that have confronted our society for decades, take Covid for instance. Those percentages probably parallel people that believe the media and the lefts lies about the pandemic and the vaccine.
In my opinion we all should look at things with a critical eye. I personally don’t idolize anyone. We all should learn from our mistakes. And we all should take what we learn, keep moving forward, and not repeat those same mistakes. There’s a reason why a windshield on a car is larger than the rear window.
I’m going to go out of my way this year on the 250th 4th of July and extra enjoy Americas founding. The world would have been lost many times over without America and Patriotic Americans! The American Founders blessed the world with their brilliance.
In present circumstances, the old expressed sentiments of the late Ted Turner, founder of CNN, bear a new weight. He thought there were too many people on the planet. Whenever I heard this back in the day, I chalked it up to harmless musings of a billionaire "philanthropist." Such musings seem a little less abstract now.
Fix it? Why? We are the envy of the world. Time to tell off these America-hating Democrats. Don't like America? Fine. Leave. We have no more patience or tolerance for your stupid bullshit Let's be honest. They are not "the loyal opposition." They are a fifth column of traitors. Treat them accordingly.
I thoroughly enjoy watching video commentaries of FIFA World Cup visitors describing how they are finding the USA; surprised at how kindly they have been treated by Americans and the freedom, liberty, and lifestyle that we have been blessed with. What they expected from what they've read and seen in the media is completely opposite to what they are experiencing. Makes me even more patriotic and thankful.
Case in point..... Tulsi's release of the intel re Fauci implicated him in perjury and perhaps even treason. Certainly, giving aid and comfort to the ChiComs, who loosed Covid on an unsuspecting world. And yet, there is a fear that, if an indictment is brought in DC, the Democrats likely to serve on a grand jury will protect the little criminal. And then there is the "pardon" conferred on him by the Senile Imbecile. When the only way to achieve justice might be to take it into our own hands, we have reached a very sorry turn of events.
For the sake of political advantage the myth has been promulgated that slavery is and was a race based operation, and that we in America are inherently racist, a useful political tool.
"Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks." ~ Thomas Sowell
There’s another idea seeping in - the idea that racism isn’t merely seeing the world through a prism of skin color, but rather if you are minority, by (the new definition) you cannot be a racist. And whites are, due to their skin color, racist. What a bizzaro world.
Well said. This vision of self governing republic with rights being acknowledged from God is the core of our Founders and Framers life and work which we have drifted from in our centralized state. The birthday is good. How we have wandered away from the mind of our ancestors into a democracy not so much.
your essay is so well written that i am taking the liberty of "borrowing" a paragraph for a dramatic reading i'm doing on the evening of july fourth at gadsby's tavern in old town alexandria. it's plagiarism, yes, but with a good heart and honest intention. the event is a private party and the tavern's seating capacity is limited, but i feel the obligation to let you know.
"One of the most overlooked facts about the year 1619 is that Black Africans represented only a tiny fraction of the unfree labor force in the English colonies that would later become the United States. The approximately 20 to 30 Africans who arrived in Virginia that year were vastly outnumbered by English and other European indentured servants, who constituted the overwhelming majority of bound laborers.
Although precise records do not exist, historians generally agree that well over 95 percent of unfree laborers in 1619 were not Black."
We found our family's ship manifest from 1634. It left from Ipswitch, England. On board were our ancestors with a 2 year old named John Lewis, my brothers name today. And we found another child named John Woodward, my sons name today. The Lewis's and the Woodward's were on the same ship, 400 years ago.
Jeffrey Tucker's elegant and beautiful new book, "The Spirits of America", makes a wonderful and kind gift to celebrate our inheritance of something precious, a culture that has evolved and learned to thrive in the liberty of each of us to serve and be served by every other one of us, by agreement, and never by force. Jeffrey's book tells us how this is, and does so with no harsh political language, making it something anyone can give to anyone, with hope that it may become the basis of life supporting conversation. Pavel Durov, discussing the sinking of our civilization, tells us to "fix this ship". Tucker's book can help, as has every word Robert W. Malone has written since he was exiled (from realms of increasingly dangerous authority) for daring to notice the truth, ask about what he was seeing, and start exploring how to fix it.
Thank-you so much for this incredibly well-stated summary of our country. I could not agree more. The unacknowledged truth is that the first Africans to arrive at the Jamestown colony "were in fact, former slaves captured by an English privateer ship from Portuguese slave ships at sea, and they were traded for food & water. In that trade, the Africans were accepted by the Jamestown colonists as indentured servants, with a status equal to the English, Scottish, & Irish-born indentured servants who also came to America in this time frame. The status of indentured servants meant that freedom was granted after their indenture or bond was completed - generally a term of four to seven years. The slave trade did later come to Virginia around 1650, but not in the time & way of the common narrative surrounding Jamestown, which does not in any way diminish the problem or excuse the institution of slavery in early America". (from "Rediscovering America" by Scott S. Powell). It seems to me that Nikole Hannah-Jones & her "1619 Project" & the "Avenging the Ancestors Coalition" need to revisit our early American history.
Another great book, about our Constitution is, "A Brilliant Solution" - Inventing the American Constitution", by Carol Berkin (2003). I highly recommend it. Those on the Left, who keep disparaging our country, also need to be reminded of whom, precisely, has been responsible for the harming, suppressing, & denigrating African Americans. This is a terrific brief PragerU video by Carol Swain to remind us of that reality..https://www.prageru.com/videos/inconvenient-truth-about-the-democratic-party
There has always,been an under class here who persist in thinking European culture is superior to ours harkening back to those who opposed our leaving English rule but remained after our secession and became the focus of disapproval of every aspect of our culture except of course becoming exorbitantly wealthy from its rewards
2.6 million Americans (8% of the total population) fought for the Union to abolish slavery in the Civil War. More than half a million Americans (Union) died or were wounded fighting to end slavery (360,000 dead, 275,000 wounded). The Civil War resulted in the 13th (abolished slavery), 14th (granted citizenship, equal protection, due process), and 15th (guaranteed right to vote regardless of race) Amendments to the Constitution. This all occurred within 80 years of the Constitution's ratification -- a single person's lifetime. Another lifetime after saw the 19th (granted women voting rights, 1920) and 24th (abolished poll taxes, 1964) Amendments, along with the Civil Rights (1964) and Voting Rights (1965) Acts. In just two lifetimes, America has become the envy of the world in freedom, equality and prosperity.
Hail, Hail, Doc. I love my country and it breaks my heart to see so many trying to destroy it. My house will have flags,bunting, & banners flying through the Fourth of July. I was a kid when we had our bicentennial which had a profound effect on me. It was a huge celebration for the time and made it my favorite holiday since. Times weren’t great back then but the country was bound together. When you have everyone pulling in the same direction it makes life much easier to live. The founding fathers were genius in the way they made the government. The grand experiment has worked now for 250 years and I pray it gets another 250. I’m seeing people coming here for the World Cup stunned on the beauty of our country. They are seeing how friendly our citizens are and how wrong we are portrayed by the world’s media. If this country is so bad why do people risk life and limb to come here? It’s because we are the only county that guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You get guarantees here that you will not get anywhere else. Rights born to you by God. You can succeed here but that success might not make you a billionaire. That’s not what it means as it’s written. It means if you work hard you’ll have a life worth living. If you live within your means you’ll be successful. If you follow the laws as written nobody’s going to screw with you. You can go online and say anything you want without fear the police are coming. The problems started when the teachers quit teaching civics in school. Then they got rid of god which canned saying the pledge of allegiance every morning when school started. The teachers union should be destroyed as every public school in any major city has failed kids for generations now. DC needs a major clean up too but that’s an argument for another time. I love my country and always will. This years celebration is special and I’ll be happy to see it all. I most likely won’t see the tricentennial so this one will be even more symbolic to me than most. We are the USA love it or leave it.
America is the greatest country in the world and as I said before, maybe we can trade some of the fun loving FIFA fans for our bitter, complaining leftist Dems, I'm sure the reason they complain so much is because they are all failures and rather than self reflect it's less painful and embarrassing to point their fingers at those enjoying life and the Fourth. We plan on having the largest party of our lives!
When I look at the graph from CNN about being a proud American, I can see the percentages of how well propaganda works and with which group it is so successful with. This extends out over many subjects and issues that have confronted our society for decades, take Covid for instance. Those percentages probably parallel people that believe the media and the lefts lies about the pandemic and the vaccine.
In my opinion we all should look at things with a critical eye. I personally don’t idolize anyone. We all should learn from our mistakes. And we all should take what we learn, keep moving forward, and not repeat those same mistakes. There’s a reason why a windshield on a car is larger than the rear window.
I’m going to go out of my way this year on the 250th 4th of July and extra enjoy Americas founding. The world would have been lost many times over without America and Patriotic Americans! The American Founders blessed the world with their brilliance.
In present circumstances, the old expressed sentiments of the late Ted Turner, founder of CNN, bear a new weight. He thought there were too many people on the planet. Whenever I heard this back in the day, I chalked it up to harmless musings of a billionaire "philanthropist." Such musings seem a little less abstract now.
Fix it? Why? We are the envy of the world. Time to tell off these America-hating Democrats. Don't like America? Fine. Leave. We have no more patience or tolerance for your stupid bullshit Let's be honest. They are not "the loyal opposition." They are a fifth column of traitors. Treat them accordingly.
I thoroughly enjoy watching video commentaries of FIFA World Cup visitors describing how they are finding the USA; surprised at how kindly they have been treated by Americans and the freedom, liberty, and lifestyle that we have been blessed with. What they expected from what they've read and seen in the media is completely opposite to what they are experiencing. Makes me even more patriotic and thankful.
Yup, we need our own Great Replacement.
Case in point..... Tulsi's release of the intel re Fauci implicated him in perjury and perhaps even treason. Certainly, giving aid and comfort to the ChiComs, who loosed Covid on an unsuspecting world. And yet, there is a fear that, if an indictment is brought in DC, the Democrats likely to serve on a grand jury will protect the little criminal. And then there is the "pardon" conferred on him by the Senile Imbecile. When the only way to achieve justice might be to take it into our own hands, we have reached a very sorry turn of events.
For the sake of political advantage the myth has been promulgated that slavery is and was a race based operation, and that we in America are inherently racist, a useful political tool.
"Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks." ~ Thomas Sowell
There’s another idea seeping in - the idea that racism isn’t merely seeing the world through a prism of skin color, but rather if you are minority, by (the new definition) you cannot be a racist. And whites are, due to their skin color, racist. What a bizzaro world.
Indeed. Anyway, is it skin color or cultural differences?
Well said. This vision of self governing republic with rights being acknowledged from God is the core of our Founders and Framers life and work which we have drifted from in our centralized state. The birthday is good. How we have wandered away from the mind of our ancestors into a democracy not so much.
Progressives is the answer to your question. Been underminining our Constitution for well over a century and still going strong.
Onset date 1860’s.
Bunch of failed 1848 German socialist revolutionaries came here calling themselves 48ers and participated in creation of Progressive party in Wis.
Read “Lincoln Uber Alles” by John Avery Emison. He covers this Marxist immigration well. Lincoln appointed a Marxist to his cabinet.
Amen!! Sharing this widely!
Happy Birthday America! I'm happy and proud of the opportunities here and I still strongly believe this is a great nation!
Very good essay Drs. M.
dear jgm/rwm,
your essay is so well written that i am taking the liberty of "borrowing" a paragraph for a dramatic reading i'm doing on the evening of july fourth at gadsby's tavern in old town alexandria. it's plagiarism, yes, but with a good heart and honest intention. the event is a private party and the tavern's seating capacity is limited, but i feel the obligation to let you know.
cheers.
peter heinlein
And this article is why I subscribe to your “thoughts”. Thank You. And may our gracious God continue to abundantly bless you!
Yes, we had slavery when our country began.
Tell me a country or people who have never had slavery.
Then tell me another country that had a civil war to end slavery.
"One of the most overlooked facts about the year 1619 is that Black Africans represented only a tiny fraction of the unfree labor force in the English colonies that would later become the United States. The approximately 20 to 30 Africans who arrived in Virginia that year were vastly outnumbered by English and other European indentured servants, who constituted the overwhelming majority of bound laborers.
Although precise records do not exist, historians generally agree that well over 95 percent of unfree laborers in 1619 were not Black."
We found our family's ship manifest from 1634. It left from Ipswitch, England. On board were our ancestors with a 2 year old named John Lewis, my brothers name today. And we found another child named John Woodward, my sons name today. The Lewis's and the Woodward's were on the same ship, 400 years ago.
Jeffrey Tucker's elegant and beautiful new book, "The Spirits of America", makes a wonderful and kind gift to celebrate our inheritance of something precious, a culture that has evolved and learned to thrive in the liberty of each of us to serve and be served by every other one of us, by agreement, and never by force. Jeffrey's book tells us how this is, and does so with no harsh political language, making it something anyone can give to anyone, with hope that it may become the basis of life supporting conversation. Pavel Durov, discussing the sinking of our civilization, tells us to "fix this ship". Tucker's book can help, as has every word Robert W. Malone has written since he was exiled (from realms of increasingly dangerous authority) for daring to notice the truth, ask about what he was seeing, and start exploring how to fix it.
Thank-you so much for this incredibly well-stated summary of our country. I could not agree more. The unacknowledged truth is that the first Africans to arrive at the Jamestown colony "were in fact, former slaves captured by an English privateer ship from Portuguese slave ships at sea, and they were traded for food & water. In that trade, the Africans were accepted by the Jamestown colonists as indentured servants, with a status equal to the English, Scottish, & Irish-born indentured servants who also came to America in this time frame. The status of indentured servants meant that freedom was granted after their indenture or bond was completed - generally a term of four to seven years. The slave trade did later come to Virginia around 1650, but not in the time & way of the common narrative surrounding Jamestown, which does not in any way diminish the problem or excuse the institution of slavery in early America". (from "Rediscovering America" by Scott S. Powell). It seems to me that Nikole Hannah-Jones & her "1619 Project" & the "Avenging the Ancestors Coalition" need to revisit our early American history.
Another great book, about our Constitution is, "A Brilliant Solution" - Inventing the American Constitution", by Carol Berkin (2003). I highly recommend it. Those on the Left, who keep disparaging our country, also need to be reminded of whom, precisely, has been responsible for the harming, suppressing, & denigrating African Americans. This is a terrific brief PragerU video by Carol Swain to remind us of that reality..https://www.prageru.com/videos/inconvenient-truth-about-the-democratic-party
There has always,been an under class here who persist in thinking European culture is superior to ours harkening back to those who opposed our leaving English rule but remained after our secession and became the focus of disapproval of every aspect of our culture except of course becoming exorbitantly wealthy from its rewards
2.6 million Americans (8% of the total population) fought for the Union to abolish slavery in the Civil War. More than half a million Americans (Union) died or were wounded fighting to end slavery (360,000 dead, 275,000 wounded). The Civil War resulted in the 13th (abolished slavery), 14th (granted citizenship, equal protection, due process), and 15th (guaranteed right to vote regardless of race) Amendments to the Constitution. This all occurred within 80 years of the Constitution's ratification -- a single person's lifetime. Another lifetime after saw the 19th (granted women voting rights, 1920) and 24th (abolished poll taxes, 1964) Amendments, along with the Civil Rights (1964) and Voting Rights (1965) Acts. In just two lifetimes, America has become the envy of the world in freedom, equality and prosperity.
Hail, Hail, Doc. I love my country and it breaks my heart to see so many trying to destroy it. My house will have flags,bunting, & banners flying through the Fourth of July. I was a kid when we had our bicentennial which had a profound effect on me. It was a huge celebration for the time and made it my favorite holiday since. Times weren’t great back then but the country was bound together. When you have everyone pulling in the same direction it makes life much easier to live. The founding fathers were genius in the way they made the government. The grand experiment has worked now for 250 years and I pray it gets another 250. I’m seeing people coming here for the World Cup stunned on the beauty of our country. They are seeing how friendly our citizens are and how wrong we are portrayed by the world’s media. If this country is so bad why do people risk life and limb to come here? It’s because we are the only county that guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You get guarantees here that you will not get anywhere else. Rights born to you by God. You can succeed here but that success might not make you a billionaire. That’s not what it means as it’s written. It means if you work hard you’ll have a life worth living. If you live within your means you’ll be successful. If you follow the laws as written nobody’s going to screw with you. You can go online and say anything you want without fear the police are coming. The problems started when the teachers quit teaching civics in school. Then they got rid of god which canned saying the pledge of allegiance every morning when school started. The teachers union should be destroyed as every public school in any major city has failed kids for generations now. DC needs a major clean up too but that’s an argument for another time. I love my country and always will. This years celebration is special and I’ll be happy to see it all. I most likely won’t see the tricentennial so this one will be even more symbolic to me than most. We are the USA love it or leave it.
America is the greatest country in the world and as I said before, maybe we can trade some of the fun loving FIFA fans for our bitter, complaining leftist Dems, I'm sure the reason they complain so much is because they are all failures and rather than self reflect it's less painful and embarrassing to point their fingers at those enjoying life and the Fourth. We plan on having the largest party of our lives!
We are guilty. Guilty of having high standards that are hard to live up to.