📝 🇺🇸 🎆 What if America Turned 250 and Nobody Cared? | Sean McCarthy

The United States of America, the most powerful nation to exist in the history of planet Earth, is turning 250 years old. I have yet to find anybody who cares.

This collective indifference has caused some consternation on the American right. Scott Greer notes how pathetic today’s celebration is when compared with what was done for the 200th birthday in 1976. Back then New York had 225 sail ships from 30 nations parade up the Hudson River before six million spectators. A “freedom train” toured the nation for 21 months, showcasing historical artifacts at every stop (a moon rock and George Washington’s copy of the Constitution were among them). The Queen of England came to Philadelphia to deliver a “freedom bell.”

50 years later what do we get? Well there’s the Great American State Fair in Washington DC. It’s completely empty except for a dozen elderly people who are using it as a type of Dr. Kevorkian device to commit suicide via heat stroke.

Greer gestures towards the Bowling Alone explanation for all this, that Americans spend far less time involved in our communities than we did in the 1970s, but he ultimately agrees with Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire that “the left” is responsible because they have destroyed patriotism by distorting American history.

Performative anti-patriotism on the American left certainly exists but it’s a symptom rather than a cause. What brought us here is the victory of the ideology espoused by Matt Walsh and Scott Greer. Their dog caught the car. We all live in Ronald Reagan’s America. Everyone who advocated for that and wanted it won. It sucks and they fucking hate it.

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https://seanpmccarthy.substack.com/p/what-if-america-turned-250-and-nobody