With the United States approaching its 250th birthday next year, many in the country have been swept up in a new sense of patriotism in light of this momentous anniversary.
That patriotism, however, does not appear to be being passed on to the younger generation, according to World News Daily.
That “patriotism gap” has grown rapidly in the aftermath of last November’s election and the constant drumbeat of anti-American propaganda coming from the mainstream media and far-left Democrats, the latter of whom refer to President Trump as “a dictator” and the second coming of “Adolf Hitler.”
Ever since the George Floyd overdose death in 2020, America has been painted as being founded by slave holders and based on “white supremacy.”
An elected member of Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), called the United States one of the “worst countries in the world,” as if her homeland of Sudan is paradise on Earth.
Ed Morrissey, writing for HotAir.com wrote, “Pride in America has sunk to its lowest standing ever, mainly led by a collapse among Democrats.”
According to Gallup: “A record-low 58% of U.S. adults say they are ‘extremely’ (41%) or ‘very’ (17%) proud to be an American, down 9 percentage points from last year and 5 points below the prior low from 2020.” Most of that decline is in the “very proud” category, Gallup noted.
Conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro asked in a recent column if the country is seeing “the end of patriotism.”
“America has a major problem: nearly half of Americans–42%--don’t believe in America.”
Gary Bauer, who served in the Reagan administration, astutely observed that: “The Left is all in on LGBTQ pride, but when it comes to pride in America, not so much…The American pride gap between the Greatest Generation and Gen Z is 53 points.”
I had the privilege of graduating from high school in 1976, the year of America’s Bicentennial, and my school had a model high school bicentennial program that was emulated by schools nationwide.
The country was just coming out of the Vietnam War, and President Nixon had resigned only two years before. Pride in our nation, especially by our youth, was palpable.
Contrast that with today. As WND notes, “There has been an onslaught of teaching Americans to hate America in the schools.”
One example of that is the “1619 Project,” the “brainchild” of anti-white “journalist” Nikole Hannah-Jones, which was pushed by the New York Times.
She then claimed that the United States was not founded in 1776, but in 1619 when a few slaves were brought to the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.
Jones neglected to mention that African slaves were actually sold into slavery by Africans themselves; however, that mattered not to Jones.
One person who disputed the essence of Jones’ argument was the brilliant late Dr. Walter Williams of George Mason University. Williams said:
“Slavery has been mankind’s standard fare throughout its entire history. And even the word slave, in most languages, is Slav; that is because the Slavic people are among the first to be enslaved. And Africans were among the last to be enslaved. And the great thing about the Western world is that we spent many resources on eliminating slavery.”
The argument put forth by the left is self-deprecating. If America is such a bad country, why are illegal aliens risking their lives to get here?
Why would people walk hundreds, if not a thousand miles, to illegally cross the U.S. southern border?
If the United States is such a bad, evil country, why are Democrats, including Ilhan Omar, fighting for people to come here?
It is because the United States of America has been the most successful country in human history. Why is that?
Because we are a nation founded on natural law. As our extraordinary Declaration of Independence says:
“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness…that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted amont Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
We do not derive our powers as citizens from the government–they derive their powers from us. THAT is why millions flee their countries to come to the United States, since their homeland decides what rights they receive, if any.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of America and the American dream in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech:
“I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.’”
America may not be perfect…no nation or person is. The only perfect one who ever walked the Earth is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
What differentiates the United States from anywhere else on Earth is our founding on Christian principles. Christian principles serve as the foundation of our Declaration of Independence as well as our Constitution.
No other nation can lay claim to that.
Does our Christian foundation mean those who have no faith are not welcome here? No.
Our First Amendment guarantees that anyone is free to worship how they please, with no interference from the government. Even those with no religion are welcome here. All we ask is that you do so legally and acclimate to our country.
Thomas Jefferson, one of our Founding Fathers, was famously religiously liberal, yet he appealed to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, writing in 1786:
“Almighty God hath created the mind free…all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments…are a deaprtuer from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet choose not to propagate it by coercisons on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to exalt it by its influence on reason alone…”
WND explains Jefferson’s words to mean that the individual…not the state…is to direct their conscience. That is much different in Omar’s Sudan and most other countries, where it is the collective…not the individual…who directs the conscience.
Some Gen Z’ers claim the United States is a fascist state run by a tyrannical king.
That is the ultimate self-own because if that were true, they wouldn’t have the right to march in the street nor broadcast those feelings for all the world to see.
They would be like the man who was run down by a tank in Tiananmen Square in China. Our amazing Constitution gives these people the right to make fools of themselves at will.
One cannot help but think that there is a correlation between the decline in religious affiliation and the decline in American pride, with both being driven by the political left and their army of leftists, including the media, the teachers’ unions, and our colleges and universities.
President Ronald Reagan once famously said:
“America needs God more than God needs America. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.”
“America needs God.” As we approach our 250th birthday, truer words have never been spoken. We have been blessed to be in the greatest nation in the world, a gift from God. It’s our duty to honor that blessing by believing in the gift we have been given.”
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