Separating the Americans from the America-Haters

It’s a good year to take stock of American greatness.

J.B. Shurk | June 4, 2026

America’s two-hundred-fiftieth birthday is an apt time to separate those who disdain this country from those who thank God for having been born here.  

I notice that the major “faces” representing the corporate news machine have decided to use this magnificent anniversary as a time for “reflection” about all the different ways the country and its people have somehow let those “faces” down.  Instead of considering what an amazing melting pot of people have contributed to America’s greatness, the “faces” lecture us about enduring racism that is supposedly identical to the slavery that existed before the Civil War.  Instead of appreciating how innovators and producers transformed the United States into the wealthiest nation that has ever existed, the “faces” talk about material inequality and the “virtues” of collective ownership.  Instead of marveling at the supreme intellectual gifts of our Founding Fathers, the “faces” bemoan the absence of black, “trans” women at the Declaration’s signing.  

It is odd that the people whose wealth and fame would be possible in no other country in the world find it so easy to ignore their historical debts.  Were it not for the providential arrival of a George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton during the consequential decade of America’s birth, there would be no talking heads on CNN today.  Instead of generating paroxysms of rhetorical outrage over “racism,” “sexism,” or “transphobia,” America’s sesquicentennial is an opportune year for our most privileged “elites” to get down on their knees, thank their lucky stars, and pray.  Although many no doubt bent a knee for George Floyd, few appear to be grateful for either their good fortunes or God’s continued blessing of this great nation.

What does it say about those people who spend all their time criticizing a nation that has done more to secure the blessings of human liberty than any other on Earth?  Slavery was real.  Jim Crow was real.  So........

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