26 Mar America’s 250th Birthday – Opportunity to Rethink What Freedom Means
July 4, 2026 will mark America’s 250th birthday. It’s a profound thing, to celebrate the signing of America’s Declaration of Independence, because that signing was an historic act of boldness and bravery, and also an outcome of deep reflection on the rights of man.
Fittingly, America is planning a significant birthday celebration — President Trump announced even before his election that the 250th birthday celebration would be nationwide, and a yearlong, starting in May 2025. His announcement from the White House spells out the plan for Task Force 250.
It is worth thinking about what we are celebrating, why America has survived the last 250 years, and what we need to do so we have another celebration 250 years from now.
After all, “Doomers” have long pointed out that history sets the life expectancy of a republic at around 250 years, so some leap to list reasons why the American republic will inevitably be no different, and to chronicle the list of arguments to prove that America is in decline.
But there is nothing inevitable about an expiration of the American constitutional republic. Why?
Because the American founding was different than every other republic in history. God, or ‘divine Providence’ or the “Creator” was very much in the midst of that founding; the very concept of human freedom—or ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ made paramount against the tyrannical vagaries and tendencies of human government—came straight out of the Bible. This American ideal is still radical today; the idea of men and women endowed with a God-given right to liberty is foreign right now in many countries and under many ideologies.
Those founding ideals have not been superseded by higher or better ideals. They are still standing, and the call on every American generation is to understand them more deeply, use them as the prism through which to assess new policies and schemes, and better live up to the spirit of those ideals.
We are celebrating that America’s founders were right, that men and women are capable of self-governance and in fact of being The Sovereign in our system. We are celebrating that maximum freedom of speech and assembly and religion, for each individual, is not only not dangerous, but wholesome and strengthening of our country. These ideals are why America survived till now AND why America will continue to grow and flourish so long as we continue to honor them.
Decades of anti-American indoctrination via media, academia, Hollywood and orchestrated Deep State psyops have eroded the general knowledge of America’s founding ideals and, even more important, have diluted the sense of divine authority behind them.
- Have trans-ideology and gene-modifying injections taken the place of the Creator?
- Is there such a thing as a ‘new world order’ that can be created by men and women and be apart from and often defiant of the order of creation?
- Is American society (and every society) stuck on slugging it out over which fleshly characteristics make a superior human? Or does ‘all men are created equal’ have a divine, spiritual dimension that lifts humanity out of brutal racism?
- Is America’s identity as a sovereign nation rooted in God-given freedom for each individual important enough to fight for against the tsunami of globalist, socialist advocacy?
Thinkers will grapple with these questions, but the answer is that America’s founding ideals are not going to expire, because they are rooted in unchangeable, eternal truth.
Americans can and should be optimistic that the wrestling over these questions will reground the American people in love for the exceptionalism of their country; it will advance the cause of human freedom and extend the vitality of the American republic. Because the answers are based on truth itself and as such will become clearer and clearer as ‘good news’: nothing will take the place of the Creator; there will never be a new world order created and sustainable by men and women; brutal racism is not the default setting for human interaction; and God-given freedom is an eternal truth, a right always worth fighting for on the human scene.
‘Individual freedom and responsibility under God’ is the American ideal, and it is not going to be improved upon, because there is no improvement possible. But it can be relearned and revalued.
It MUST be if America’s 250th birthday is to have the celebration it deserves.