America At 250: Uniparty Fiddles While The Country Burns

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America is the greatest country on earth.

That is thankfully still true. But instead of comparing it with other nations, what if we compare it to its own ideals or history? I say this not to spoil the party but to help explain how it is that a boisterous MAGA movement can coincide with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). (RELATED: Here Are The Voters Backing Democratic Socialists)

It seems incongruent until you look at the simultaneous rise of these polar opposites as the consequence of a bipartisan failure to address the concerns of Americans of all stripes.

Those of us with more yesterdays than tomorrows recall America’s bicentennial in 1976. I was a young man playing amateur baseball in small-town Iowa on a 100-degree Independence Day back then. Yet in so many ways it was a more refreshing, peaceful and (despite two years removed from a presidential resignation) cohesive-driven country than the one celebrating its semiquincentennial this July 4th.

Leaders of a “uniparty” can whistle by the graveyard all they want, but most folks know something’s amiss. Indeed, a more brutal assessment would analogize Nero — fiddling as the country burns.

Government schools indoctrinate — not educate — our children. Students are taught how to apologize for their heritage as NAEP test scores for reading and math hit all-time lows.

Our largest cities are doubling down on the same anarchist radicals who turned them into cesspools of homelessness, drug abuse, pollution and crime. Places once considered immune are now struggling for survival, “Denver has emptiest downtown in US and the rot is spreading,” according to a recent report.

Even beautiful Del Coronado beach in San Diego had to be abandoned due to the cross-border flow of 30 millions gallons a day of sewage from Tijuana.

When it comes to the “culture wars,” things look more like a nihilistic freak show. The unhinged orgy that is Pride Month celebrates with drag shows at City Hall while a gang of angry black lesbians target Caitlin Clark in a WNBA that has little regard for straight white woman.

The authorities do nothing, even though we’ve seen how dangerous the “identity politics” self-righteousness can get. Whether aimed at presidents or elementary students on the Annunciation Catholic School campus in Minneapolis.

It’s true, most Americans still cast ballots based on their own economic well-being. But the news there isn’t much better. We still enjoy a standard of living above that of our European World Cup visitors........

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