The nation is buzzing with excitement with the upcoming 250th Anniversary of the United States of America, this July 4, 2026. Celebrations are being organized throughout the states, Americans are taking time to reflect on the state of our nation, and the desire to fight for the good of America is being rekindled in all who love our dear country.
America turns 250 years old during a time of intense political polarization and animosity. On the left are Americans who believe America has an evolving identity that should progress toward a universal world order that secures what they believe to be human happiness.
On the right are Americans who believe America has a fixed identity that must be protected, conserved, and honored. To the conservative mind, progressive policies do not improve America, they confuse her. They befuddle her with a myriad of contradicting philosophies and leave her in a state of mental crisis.
A strong sense of identity is essential to a strong and healthy mind. Identity confusion creates chaos, instability, and mental crisis whether in a individual’s life or in a country’s cultural life.
So, who is America?
That is the question every conservative must face if they hope to be effective against progressive forces. For what it is worth, liberals know what they want. They have a utopian vision that they are working toward with fierce consistency and strategy.
Love requires deep understanding of whom you love. If we are to love America, we must understand her, not recreate her. That is where conservatism begins.
Unfortunately, partly due to leftist efforts in education and media, many conservatives either lack a deep understanding of America’s identity or they simply have given up fighting for it.
No man or woman is an island. We exist in society, in what Aristotle coined the polis. According to Aristotle, humans are political creatures. To exist outside the polis is to deny part of your identity as a human being.
Conservation does not happen as a default. On the contrary, decay is the default, a law we see in nature as well as in politics. Conserving America’s values, principles, history, and identity is hard work.
Similar to the impossibility of expressing a loved one’s entire identity in a few words, we cannot expect to capture America in her essence without writing volume after volume. And indeed, volume after volume have been written seeking to answer that question. Yet, there are qualities of our dear America that ought to unite conservatives across the nation.
Politically, America is a Democratic-Republic with a governing structure that gives the power to the people first and foremost, insists on checks-and-balances between three branches of government (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial), and rejects despotism.
Economically, America is a free-market capitalist country. Socialism and communism are foreign to her and poisonous.
Culturally, America is God-fearing. Despite how far our country has wandered from her founding principles enshrined in our founding documents, America cannot reject God without rejecting her own identity. The Declaration of Independence is clear: 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. Inalienable rights are endowed by the Divine Creator without whom there is no basis for our rights other than whatever rights the government decides to bestow. The principle that God, not the government, gives us our rights is essential to America’s identity.
These founding principles are the lifeblood of America and if we do not protect her, her heart will grow cold, and she will be buried among the other nations who were once great.
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