250

There are so many things to marvel at when it comes to the founding and growth of America.  By all reason, we shouldn't exist.  We should've failed.  We did the opposite.  First off, the brilliance of our Founding Fathers is remarkable.  To come up with the great experiment, largely based off of the writings of people who only dreamt of what we accomplished and never lived it, then to get the signers to all agree to the path forward.  To find a group of people at that time so learned and like-minded is miraculous.  Today, the best and the brightest do not dwell in government, but back then, these men were chosen from among their peers to form a congress for exactly what they did not perhaps know.  The greatest words ever put to paper were the ultimate result.  They were almost certain they would hang for their efforts, yet none wavered.  Well, one did, but to stay the course even when the rebellion was going terribly, was a commitment rarely seen.  When I think of deeply committed people throughout history, they are all Americans.  George Washington at Valley Forge or while crossing the Delaware.  Abraham Lincoln while issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and fighting a civil war, Chamberlain at Little Round Top, McCauliffe at Bastogne, Dr Martin Luther King, even Ronald Reagan while breaking the USSR.  We are famous for staying the course, and history does show that those that don't stay convicted to their course of action, almost always fail.  

The British thought we would fail.  The French thought we would too until we stayed the course long enough to make it a viable operation.  George Washington stayed the course, pulling off miracles just as things were unraveling on multiple occasions.  I think he is the greatest patriot we have ever had.  He sacrificed the quiet life he could have had just running his estate and even if he wanted some sort of glory in the beginning, he was tested as no patriot ever was.  He rescued the army from certain defeat at Brooklyn Heights, a loss would've ended the our nation, he kept the army together at Valley Forge and convinced many to stay on when their terms were ending, he stopped a mutiny and ended the Newburgh Conspiracy after the war when his officers wanted to march on Congress in a coup.  The had not been paid, nor provisioned and had to wait while the peace treaty in Paris was being worked out.  I love that story because he shows up at their secret meeting, no one knew he would be there, and after reading a speech where he implored them not to throw away the honor and glory they had achieved during the war, the officers were still in a foul mood, which had never happened after one of his speeches before.  In a stroke of pure genius, he took out his spectacles, a sign of infirmity back then, and something no one knew, up to that time, that he used them, and said my favorite words.  “Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.”  Many of the officers were moved to tears and the conspiracy was over.  When the war was over, he was handed the chance to be a king or an emperor, and he turned it all down.  He went to Annapolis and turned in his commission when the war was over.  King George III is quoted as saying that if it was true that he walked away from that opportunity, he would be the greatest person in the world.  Our nation was still in very perilous territory after the war and the Articles of Confederation were not working, once again the founders called on Washington to be the nation's first president.  He reluctantly accepted and when his second term came about, he definitely did not want the job, but he was the only choice.  We needed him and he was there.  When he finally went home to Mount Vernon, he did not live long, having sacrificed a huge portion of his adult life to this country.  There has not been a president since who didn't want the job and he walked away kicking off the peaceful transfer of power we've had since.  I cannot stand it when the socialists of today try to boil his life down to being a slave owner.  George Washington is why we exist and is the greatest patriot in our history.  He steered us through a war against the most powerful military on earth at the time and steered us through the rough early days of freedom when no one knew what they were doing.  It was an experiment, messy and full of disagreements, but he did what no one else could've.

Twenty years after we won our independence, we almost lost it all to the British again.  Fate won out once more.  We had one of the most terrible civil wars in history that nearly tore the nation apart, yet we survived.  A hundred years of civil rights strife shook our cages, as did world wars and regional conflicts.  For 250 years we have endured.  In fact, our rebellion is the only rebellion in history that followed through on everything we set out to do.  We have become the envy of the world.  No one has freedom like we do.  Literally.  Three branches of government that check the powers of the others, all beholden to the people.  It doesn't exist anywhere else.  Those people of the world not living under a totalitarian despot ruler, all fall into another category.  Coalition governments, where if things go poorly, they remove their leaders with no vote from the people and try to form another coalition and elect another leader all without consent.  From our very beginning, we were a land where you could do anything and not because of blood or land ownership, but because you could.  That freedom, that rebellious streak and sense of getting things done is in our DNA.  We create and build and fail and come back and do it again, better than before.  Our adversaries have learned a hard lesson by fighting us and losing.  Even when they had been conducting war for years and we were green and untested, we still kicked their ass.  It is just simply something that is hard to explain, but Americans are just built differently.  We don't quit, we learn from failure and we're not followers.  Our independent minds are built to overcome.  God willing, they always will be.

After all these battles, internally and against foreign nations, where freedom was always the goal, we now find ourselves celebrating 250 years as a nation.  We have had our fair share of mistakes and missteps, but we persisted.  Our battle now is against a group of people who want to bring communism to this country.  They hate America.  We fought for 250 years, not only for our own freedom, but we have secured freedom for a large part of the world,  and yet, these traitors hate America.  It isn't me saying it, it is in their own words..  They hate this country.  Their collectivism is 100% contrary to what makes us great.  In fact, none of what they believe is coherent with America.  Reagan had a great line that is apropos to this.  He said, They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.  The weak minded and foolish will follow these traitors, but the majority of Americans will reject groups like the Democrat Socialists of America.  They can't talk about freedom because communism offers none.  There is no individual in communism and therefore no freedom.  They can't talk about affordability because communism by definition offers misery and poverty.  There is no reward for working harder and producing more as it is taken and given to those that produce nothing.  They can't talk about success or following your dreams, for communism crushes both, always has and always will.  I feel sorry for those that vote for and now have to live under these traitors.  It won't be long before your world becomes a nightmare.  You will see very quickly how it isn't as promised.  Again, Ronald Reagan for the win, How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

America has only ever promised life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  It doesn't have to make ridiculous claims.  You can find success on every corner, in every state in all neighborhoods.  It ranges from having very little to living in excess.  There are actually protections for every citizen from government or from other citizens.  Our founding documents give you protections of free speech and the right to bear arms and other liberties, but God gave you the rights that really matter.  They aren't granted by government officials like they are under communism.  Communism takes away liberties and punishes you for not following along.  Eventually, it kills people.  Why?  Because it can't keep people happy and they rebel against the state because it never delivers what democracy delivers and in order to stay in power they have to kill those that stray.  A free mind is very dangerous to Communism.  a free mind is essential for democracy.  Do not fall for their speeches full of soaring rhetoric or blaming the rich, or abolishing the police.  They blame and blame and blame, but they offer you nothing.  Free things are nothing because there are no free things.  The theories they have swallowed do not work in real life.  It has been said by others that socialism/communism is great until it runs out of other people's money.  I don't think it is ever great, from the start it takes your individualism away.  Democrat Socialists and in reality, they are Communists, always have a set of boogie men that they blame for everything.  Again, in reality, these are envious people who follow the socialist/communist doctrine.  Envious and hateful.  Recently, we had a group of useful idiots  out protesting in the streets of my city.  They had all their stupid signs, like No Kings, Resist and Remove the Hate.  So I asked a few of them, what do you think of Trump?  We hate him, was the answer.  What do you think of Elon Musk?  We hate him too, was their response.  What do you think of Israel?  We hate Israel, was the retort.  I then said, well, you're hypocrites and pointed to the Remove the Hate sign.  There was just silence among them.  I drove off when the light turned green and laughed all the way to my house.  When you silence a bunch of left wing drones, you know you won the day.

I love this country.  I can even tolerate useful idiots, to a point, because the Constitution says they have the right to be dumb.  I love this country so much that I will fight and die for it and so that people like-minded to me, can survive and thrive.  But, let's get real.  The left is already at war with the rest of us.  Their violence has really taken off in the past 6 years and they aren't to be taken lightly anymore.   So, while we celebrate 250 years of improbability and exceptionalism, never forget the people who want to take all of it away are among us.  The university near you is churning out America-hating drones and has been for years.  The more they organize and win a race here and there, the more emboldened they become.  They are fueled by Chinese, Iranian and Russian influences, paid for by billionaires from inside and outside our country and they want the collapse of the United States.  Happy glorious Birthday to the best nation on earth, but keep your gun belt tight because you might need it soon.