{"id":2609572,"date":"2026-06-02T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-decades-of-anti-america-indoctrination-dont-expect-a-big-250th-celebration\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:53:14","slug":"after-decades-of-anti-america-indoctrination-dont-expect-a-big-250th-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-decades-of-anti-america-indoctrination-dont-expect-a-big-250th-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-American Indoctrination Has Soured The 250th Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-decades-of-anti-america-indoctrination-dont-expect-a-big-250th-celebration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2609572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text argues that America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/look-for-times-square-crystal-ball-to-do-something-different-this-year-as-usas-250th-birthday-approaches\/\" title=\"Look for Times Square Crystal Ball To Do Something Different This Year As USA&#039;s ... Approaches\">upcoming 250th birthday<\/a> is being framed by many public figures,institutions,and activist groups primarily as a chance for \u201creckoning\u201d and self-criticism,rather than celebration.It cites Ali Velshi expressing \u201cdeep unease\u201d about the anniversary because the country supposedly hasn\u2019t fully confronted its racist past and slavery. It also references the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and harvard human rights advocates urging Americans to \u201creimagine\u201d the nation by confronting hypocrisy in how the U.S.<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-education-sec-on-womens-school-sports-we-have-a-legal-responsibility-to-include-transgender-athletes\/\" title=\"Biden Education Sec On Women...s School Sports: We Have a \u2018Legal Responsibility... to Include Transgender Athletes\">helped create<\/a> international human rights ideas<\/a> while denying rights domestically.<\/p>\n<p>The passage contrasts this with concerns that some activists plan protests that mock national symbols (using examples like abortion,gun control,and climate-related claims). It then discusses TIME\u2019s argument that founders shouldn\u2019t be honored if they were slaveholders, and follows by claiming that founders are increasingly judged by modern moral standards without accounting for how abolition became possible over time.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the piece argues that this critical stance is fueled by education and media narratives it describes as historically pessimistic-pointing to surveys about students learning that America is fundamentally racist, curriculum influenced by the 1619 Project, and accounts of how textbooks and coverage (including during the 2020 riots) emphasize \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d as central to American identity. It further links low enthusiasm for American patriotism to cultural and academic influences, including critical theory, and suggests that Americans are left feeling obligated to apologize and remake the country rather than celebrate its achievements.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MS Now\u2019s Ali Velshi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6397174570112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Sunday he feels a \u201cdeep unease\u201d about celebrating America\u2019s 250th birthday because America \u201chas never actually fully reckoned with its racist past and its original founding sin of slavery.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I feel<\/em> a deep unease about the celebrations to which I am invited to mark the 250th anniversary of our so-called democracy,\u201d the Kenyan-born, Canadian raised, now-American-citizen said. <\/p>\n<p>Velshi isn\u2019t alone. <\/p>\n<p>Across academia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/revealed-left-wing-billionaire-pierre-omidyar-bankrolls-group-leading-corporate-boycott-campaign-against-elon-musk\/\" title=\"Revealed: Left-Wing Billionaire Pierre Omidyar Bankrolls Group Leading Corporate Boycott Campaign Against Elon Musk\">left-wing activist organizations<\/a>, and even corporate media, America\u2019s semiquincentennial is being treated as an opportunity for self-criticism rather than celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The NAACP Legal Defense Fund <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naacpldf.org\/america-250\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> of America 250: \u201cReckon. Reimagine. Refound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis critical moment calls us to collectively envision and create a new chapter: a multiracial democracy where power is\u202fshared,\u202fdignity is sacred, and thriving is the standard for everyone,\u201d The NAACP LDF said. <\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the Harvard Kennedy Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/centers\/carr-ryan\/our-work\/carr-ryan-commentary\/approaching-big-anniversary-one-year-out-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argues<\/a> America must confront the \u201cirony\u201d of having  \u201cinspired and helped create the international human rights system \u2013 basic ideas and legal realities \u2013 while systematically denying rights to many of its own people all along.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile activist organizations like All of U.S. 250, Next250, Get Free, 50501, Youth250 and other groups are planning a \u2018reckoning\u2019 protest in Washington, D.C. on June 27. They plan to make a mockery of the nation\u2019s birthday and the Declaration of Independence with their own declaration that celebrates abortion, gun control, the climate hoax, and a whole host of leftist talking points.<\/p>\n<p>TIME Magazine\u2019s Jeffrey Bennett <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/03\/30\/america250-cannot-celebrate-freedom-while-honoring-slaveholders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in March: \u201cAs the United States prepares to mark its 250th anniversary, there will be parades, commemorations, and renewed attention to the nation\u2019s founding ideals. But the celebration is already raising a harder question. What, exactly, are we choosing to honor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Bennett, \u201cAmerica\u2019s 250th should not become an active celebration of people who enslaved other human beings.\u201d Bennett cited people like Caesar Rodney, a member of the Continental Congress and slaveowner who made a legendary 80-mile ride on horseback through a violent thunderstorm in order to get to Philadelphia and break a deadlocked vote on independence. Rodney later signed the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, many of America\u2019s founders are deemed unworthy of celebration because they were products of their time and participated in institutions that modern Americans reject. Never mind that these men risked their lives and fortunes to establish the same principles of liberty and self-government that ultimately made slavery\u2019s abolition possible. Historical figures like the Founders, according to Bennett\u2019s reasoning, should be judged according to contemporary moral standards that simply did not exist in their day.<\/p>\n<p>But this urge to use America\u2019s 250th birthday as a means of critique is the predictable result of Americans being taught generation after generation to hate this country and be ashamed of all her glory. <\/p>\n<p>An Education Next Survey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationnext.org\/bridging-the-divide-over-critical-race-theory-americas-classrooms-debate-woke-instruction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> more than one-third of students reported being taught \u201coften\u201d or \u201calmost daily\u201d that \u201cAmerica is a fundamentally racist nation\u201d and that \u201cwhite people contribute the most to racism in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhaminstitute.org\/national\/commentary\/what-do-school-boards-think-about-1619-project-curriculum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> that 4,500 classrooms modeled its curriculum on the 1619 Project. The 1619 Project places slavery at the center of the American founding while falsely portraying that the Revolution was fought to preserve slavery, that blacks \u201cfought back alone\u201d to secure their rights, and that the nation\u2019s entire history should be viewed as a struggle between blacks against white supremacy, as Peter M. Wood <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/17\/the-1619-project-books-goal-is-to-keep-slandering-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in these pages. In other words, the 1619 Project argues America is irredeemably racist and fundamentally flawed.<\/p>\n<p>Of course that\u2019s nothing to celebrate \u2014 <em>if it were true<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>But this pessimistic and historically illiterate interpretation extends beyond early education. <\/p>\n<p>Historian Donald Yacovone, an associate at the Hutchins Center for African &#038; African American Research, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2020\/09\/harvard-historian-examines-how-textbooks-taught-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in 2020 that \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d is \u201can expression of American identity.\u201d Yacovone, who also wrote the book <em>Teaching White Supremacy: The Textbook Battle Over Race In American History,<\/em> also said \u201cof course\u201d it was \u201cfair\u201d to characterize Thomas Jefferson as a \u201cwhite supremacist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he wrote those famous words in the Declaration of Independence he thought only of white men,\u201d Yacovone said. <\/p>\n<p>The propaganda press has only reinforced these narratives. Amid the 2020 riots, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/historians-debate-americas-sordid-history-racism-confederate-monuments\/story?id=71486827\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ABC News<\/a> described many of the Founding Fathers primarily in terms of their \u201chistories of racism\u201d as statues of figures like Jefferson were vandalized or torn down.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise, then, that the upcoming 250th birthday of the greatest country to ever exist feels less than exciting. Another part of this low enthusiasm about celebrating \u2014 not denigrating \u2014 America\u2019s 250th is because patriotism is low. A <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/692150\/american-pride-slips-new-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 2025 Gallup poll<\/a> found only 58% of adults say they are \u201cextremely\u201d or \u201cvery proud\u201d to be American \u2014 a record low. When broken down among party lines, just 36% of Democrats share that view, while 53% of Independents and 92% of Republicans do.<\/p>\n<p>Those realities are a product of cultural and educational institutions that have spent decades demoralizing and indoctrinating Americans to hate their country and ancestors. The roots of this anti-American propaganda can be traced all the way back to the 1930s when <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/critical-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Frankfurt School<\/a> fled the Nazis and came to Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p>People like Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno brought with them critical theory, a Marxist-inspired critique of capitalism and the Enlightenment, amongst other things. Marcuse later <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One-Dimensional_Man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> <em>One-Dimensional Man<\/em> that claimed capitalism suppresses true liberation. This laid the groundwork to view America as oppressive, and over time these ideas influenced entire academic disciplines. <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/critical-theory\/\">From<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/publications\/detail\/american-born-critical-theorists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">critical theory evolved<\/a> women\u2019s studies, post-colonialism, and critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>And by 2001, \u201cfaculty opinion\u201d at higher-education \u201ctook a hard left turn such that professors on the political left are now approaching a supermajority in the academy,\u201d the 2023 issue of The Independent Review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.org\/tir\/2022-23-winter\/the-hyperpoliticization-of-higher-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course none of this is to say America is beyond <em>any<\/em> criticism. But a healthy \u2014 and much needed \u2014 patriotism recognizes that any shortcomings are overshadowed by the achievements of America and her people. The United States is not merely a story of slavery and sin. It is the story of a people who have continually risked their lives, fortunes and honor to secure the blessings of liberty endowed to us by our Creator. <\/p>\n<p>If Americans seem less enthusiastic about celebrating America\u2019s 250th birthday, it\u2019s probably because so many of us have been taught to view America as an oppressive regime requiring perpetual apology and remaking. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. 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