America at 250 Is Awesome Despite Our Problems
The United States of America turns 250 years old this week, defying the odds and defying the haters for over a quarter of a millennium. It’s time to take stock of where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going. It’s easy to be a doomer; look at this week’s reaction to a single court case on an issue we’ll eventually win...
We have problems. We see communists elected to positions of authority in New York City, Los Angeles, Denver, and Washington, D.C. Polls show that many Democrats today appear to hate America more than they hate red meat, AR15s, and testosterone...
We’re not like any other country on Earth. We descend from people who left the relative comfort of their homelands to carve out a new kind of nation from a wild continent...
America is special, born of a refusal to comply and an obstinate rejection of obedience. We rule ourselves...
If you want your children to understand it, make them watch "The Thread of Liberty: Keeping Our Republic"...
You must teach the next generation who we are. We have to know who we are because this government belongs to us, not the bureaucrats, politicians, corporations...
Progressivism is an ideology designed to steal what is ours and redistribute scraps to greedy constituencies in exchange for votes and power. It is the opposite of Americanism. It is anti-freedom, because genuine freedom means freedom from their yoke...
I believe Americans are going to take their country back. We are done being replaced by foreign invaders, taxed to support chiselers of every income bracket, and told we have no moral right to exist or govern ourselves...
We will not surrender our God-given rights enshrined in the Constitution - the rights to free speech and to freely worship, the right to keep and bear arms and defend life and liberty with righteous force, or any of the others. Leftists will not seize our property, nullify our votes, or turn this glorious Republic into a squalid dictatorship. Two hundred fifty years ago, a would-be tyrant sent enforcers to impose his will upon us. We shot them.
Counterpoint
July 4, 2026, by Andrew P. Napolitano, Lew Rockwell:
... Many of us who monitor federal excess are fearful of out-of-control democracy, which is what we have in America today, yet there remain in our federal structure a few safeguards against runaway federal tyranny, such as the equal state representation in the Senate, the Electoral College, the state control of federal elections, the remnants of state sovereignty, and life-tenured federal judges and justices...
Part of James Madison’s genius was the construction of the federal government as a three-sided table. The first side represented the people - the House of Representatives. The second side represented the sovereign states that created the federal government by surrendering limited powers to it - the Senate. And the third side manifests the nation-state - the presidency, which is both head of state and head of the executive branch of the federal government. The judiciary, whose prominent role today was unthinkable in 1789, was not part of this mix...
In a democracy, a faithless majority will take whatever it wants from the minority - including its liberty and property. That’s where we are today on the 250th anniversary of the start of this Jeffersonian and Madisonian experiment - a country the Founders wouldn’t recognize as their creation.
America 250 & The Fate of Empires, by Richard Houck, Counter-Currents, 2 July 2026.