{"id":2644522,"date":"2026-08-13T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-american-experiment-will-endure\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:26:06","slug":"the-american-experiment-will-endure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-american-experiment-will-endure\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Experiment Will Endure"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fthe-american-experiment-will-endure%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=2644522&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>Teh content discusses concerns about the current political and social landscape in the United States. It begins by referencing Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Gettysburg Address, emphasizing the nation&#8217;s enduring ideals of liberty and equality, despite ongoing challenges.The author acknowledges doubts about America&#8217;s stability but firmly believes the country remains resilient.<\/p>\n<p>The article criticizes both the far-left and far-right factions. it condemns the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for advocating the replacement of the U.S. Constitution and other radical reforms, highlighting prominent politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria ocasio-Cortez as examples. Similarly, it criticizes the &#8220;woke right&#8221; for inward nationalism and scapegoating minorities, wich the author argues is counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the piece underscores the importance of maintaining America&#8217;s strength, including its military actions and commitment to defending its interests globally. It cautions against abandoning individual rights and capitalism, asserting that these foundations have been key to the nation\u2019s prosperity and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>A message from a law professor reinforces the idea that America\u2019s system of democracy has led to unprecedented prosperity and freedom, urging Americans to reject ideologies that threaten to dismantle this legacy. The article concludes by emphasizing that no problem faced today justifies abandoning the core principles of individual rights and free enterprise that have historically secured American success.  <\/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\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>To borrow from one of the greatest speeches in American history: \u201cTwo Hundred and Fifty Years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Lincoln gave this Gettysburg Address to commemorate the bloodiest battle of America\u2019s Civil War. Over three long days, the fighting in those Pennsylvania fields resulted in more than 51,000 total dead, wounded, missing, or captured.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln noted that the war tested whether America, \u201cor any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, 163 years after that bold question, I say the answer is resoundingly and unequivocally \u201cyes.\u201d And yet, many in the news, social media, opinion pieces, and poll responses doubt whether we can \u2014 or even should \u2014 still hold it together.<\/p>\n<p>While our country certainly has challenges, such views are profoundly misplaced. Worse still are those who assert that our flaws are so overwhelming that our system of government \u2014 one that has lasted longer than any other similar one \u2014 is too broken to endure further.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve felt that way at times too. Staying current on the news, where factions of the far left and far right incessantly shout past each other, is a hazard of this job. I recently asked a colleague to talk me out of thinking our country is on the verge of falling into the abyss.<\/p>\n<p>The progressive wing of the Democratic Party pines for collectivism in all its forms, embracing candidates who identify by the mob-rule moniker \u201cdemocratic socialist\u201d complete with Marxist disdain for private property and capitalism. They seem to believe that voting to seize your landlord\u2019s building because you think he charges too much for rent is something other than immoral theft. Add in the perennial blaming of Jews \u2014 now rebranded as Zionists to camouflage the antisemitism \u2014 and they\u2019re lightyears away from our constitutional ideals.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage readers to check out the website of the DSA \u2014 the Democratic Socialists of America. They openly call for the replacement of our Constitution, abolishing the Senate, elimination of an elected president, and the end of an independent judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Appending the word \u201cdemocratic\u201d to the inherent authoritarianism of socialism doesn\u2019t make it any less fundamentally un-American.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t some fringe group. Current elected members of Congress, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, all proudly declare their socialist bona fides. And New York City voters recently elected current DSA standard-bearer and Hamas apologist Zohran Mamdani as their mayor.<\/p>\n<p>My state of Ohio isn\u2019t immune from the socialist scourge, having elected Tristan Rader to the Ohio House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>In all, the DSA boasts having as many as 250 elected officials across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Also misguided are what some call the \u201cwoke right.\u201d These are often inward-looking nationalists who blame liberals, minorities, immigrants \u2014 and of course Jews \u2014 for the problems they see.<\/p>\n<p>Despite broad support for \u201cour troops,\u201d they want the U.S. out of all foreign military conflicts. Such na\u00efve isolationism only guarantees that our economic and political adversaries will fill the void, making wider conflict and American decline even more likely.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after our nation\u2019s founding, Presidents Jefferson and Madison dispatched the nascent U.S. Navy to stop Barbary pirates from seizing our merchant vessels and their crews. The opening lyrics of The Marines\u2019 Hymn, \u201cFrom the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli,\u201d commemorate the reality that the world is a dangerous place and that barbarism must be met with forceful and unwavering resolve. Our strength and prosperity have always included our willingness to defend our citizens and ideals at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>While each faction sees the other as the enemy, their respective passion and prattle make them little more than twaddling twins.<\/p>\n<p>A sanity check was in order and it came in the form of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media post<\/a> from Brad Smith, a law professor at Capital University, former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and staunch free speech advocate.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cIn all of world history [ours] is a system of unprecedented and unparalleled prosperity and freedom\u2026 To be an American in the first part of the 21st century is to be, by definition, amongst the luckiest people ever to live on this planet. We need to stop with this notion, growing on both left and right, that we need to \u2018blow it all up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So well said.<\/p>\n<p>We shouldn\u2019t be the least bit envious of Europeans sweltering in the summer heat because their socialist-minded climate masters won\u2019t let them have air conditioning. Nor should we fear the legal immigrant whose labors enrich us. And the fixation on Jews always ends badly for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s not a single problem Americans face that requires abandoning the individual rights and capitalist system that have and continue to secure such freedom and prosperity for more people than any other \u2014 ever.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, those rights are unalienable and beyond the reach of simple-minded majorities. It would be the epitome of hubris misinformed by ignorance for us to blow that up.<\/p>\n<p><em>This piece was originally published in The Columbus Dispatch.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><b>The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either d or endorsed by the owners of this website. 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