Half of America Isn’t Celebrating the Country’s 250th Birthday

Most Americans appear to be preparing to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday with flags hanging from homes, patriotic bunting across fences, parades and tiny flags lining walkways, but there are quite a few party poopers.

“MS NOW contributor and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr appeared on Tuesday’s Morning Joe to offer his repetitively bleak take on America as the nation nears its 250th birthday,” Media Research Center’s NewsBusters reports.

“Glaude described America as a ‘white republic,’ built on ‘greed and selfishness and grift and hatred.’ Invoking Moby Dick, he analogized the US to an ugly ‘white whale’ that threatens to ‘choke out the life of the country.’ Patriotism is racism.”

On @Morning_Joe: America a 'White Republic' Built on 'Greed, Selfishness, Grift, and Hatred' pic.twitter.com/bmuSpctaAN

— Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) June 30, 2026

Yikes. What a miserable man. NewsBusters added, “As the nation prepares to mark 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, Morning Joe offered viewers another helping of grievance over gratitude from the liberal-media crowd.”

We live in the freest country in the world. Is it perfect? Of course not. But we are so free, we self-correct through our elections, legislation, and ballot initiatives.

America’s founding ideas of limited government, individual rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, remain uniquely influential and aspirational.

The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence stands out as one of the most eloquent and philosophically influential passages in American history:

 “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.

Yet today, I’m seeing upside down flags, derogatory Trump signs, campaign signs for local communists across my city. Sacramento is not alone in this regard.

A Gallup poll from August 2025 survey (their most recent on this topic) found 66% of Democrats said they have a positive view of socialism, while only 42% said the same about capitalism. This is the first time in the poll’s history that Democrats favored socialism over capitalism by this margin.

Yet only 16 years ago in 2010, 50% of Democrats were positive on socialism, and 51% were positive on capitalism.

According to Gallup, Democrats are the only partisan group of the three that views socialism more positively than capitalism — 66% to 42%, respectively. Independents are modestly more pro-capitalism than pro-socialism (51% vs. 38%), while Republicans are overwhelmingly so (74% vs. 14%).

The spoiled, self-absorbed, self-loathing college educated white voters feel the need to show you their virtue:

However, even CNN acknowledges that national elections still show socialism polls poorly overall, and Democrats often fare better when emphasizing practical issues over ideological labels. Republicans frequently highlight these gaps to argue the Democratic Party has shifted left.

CNN pollster Harry Enten has pointed out that while this energizes primary voters and the base, it is a vulnerability in general elections.

But why is Socialism taking such a foothold among affluent white Americans?

I listened to a Peter Schweizer podcast recently in which he discussed “Elite Overproduction,” a concept developed by historical sociologist Peter Turchin, and describes a situation in which a society produces more people aspiring to elite status—typically through higher education, wealth, or credentials—than there are available high-status positions in the power structure, economy, or institutions. This mismatch creates frustrated “counter-elites” or “surplus elites” who feel aggrieved, leading to intensified intra-elite competition, ideological polarization, declining social cooperation, and broader societal instability or crisis.

“This theory seems to fit the moment,” Schweizer says. “The idea is that these elites who went to expensive colleges and got useless degrees are bitter and angry, so they are lashing out by challenging the existing authority. He notes, for example, that the BLM protest movement and turn towards socialism were pushed primarily by cultural elites, well-educated, mostly white, affluent people in New York and California.”

As child, I was fortunate to live for a time in Newport, Rhode Island, the first British colony in America to formally declare its independence, and the first state to  guarantee freedom of religion.

We lived in an old home in downtown Newport, which survived the Revolutionary War. Soldiers fought the Brits from the upstairs windows of our home, according to local historians.

Newport was rife with constant reminders of The American Revolution. I used to imagine what life was like in 1776 Newport, when the state repealed its allegiance to King George III of England.

Reflecting upon America’s Independence Day, it’s important to remember the Revolution wasn’t just a rebellion against the King of England, it was a rebellion against being ruled by a monarchy. Our forefathers and many of our ancestors gave up everything and shed their own blood rather than submit unto King George III.

Living in California feels like living under King George III. Gov. Gavin Newsom is even plotting a major restructuring of California’s K-12 education governance that significantly diminishes the powers of the elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction, a constitutional office, because a Republican is leading following California’s primary election.

The California Constitution (Article IX, Section 2) requires that a Superintendent of Public Instruction “shall be elected by the qualified electors of the State at each gubernatorial election.” But that won’t matter if Newsom successfully removes powers from the Schools Superintendent.

Re-reading the Declaration of Independence, the nation’s most cherished symbol of liberty, helps refresh our ties to American history. Thomas Jefferson drafted it, and his words still capture the heartfelt convictions of liberty-loving Americans.

Jefferson rightly focused on the importance of  individual liberty, ideals first shared by John Locke and the Continental philosophers.

Jefferson argued in his opening two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence that a people had the right to overthrow their government when it abused their fundamental natural rights over a long period of time:

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the equal and independent station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the change

We hold these truths to be [sacred and undeniable] self evident, that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive in rights inherent and inalienables, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes: and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a distinguished period, and pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to [subject] reduce them to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Would Americans today sign such a document, under similar threats as the founders?

Or are we willingly overthrowing the liberties of America, as Samuel Adams warned in 1779?

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” — Samuel Adams, 1779, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence

Can this individualistic ethic be renewed in an America enveloped in entitlements, self-absorption, self-loathing, and lies by the “deadwood” left?