Still thankful for the best country on Earth
By: Washington Examiner Editorial Board
Thank God for giving us an exceptional 1776 America as our home sweet home. It is nearly Thanksgiving the time we do thank God for all that we have. Our founding fathers, the pilgrims, the Declaration of Independence, our constitution, the Bill of Rights, our capitalist economic system, the abundant blessings, divine Providence, inalienable human rights, we Americans still have much to be thankful for despite the disasters brewing in DC at the legislative and executive levels. May God bless America and we the people this thanksgiving season as we thank Him for what we have that He gave us
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Still thankful for the best country on Earth
Americans began celebrating Thanksgiving long before there was a United States. For hundreds of years, the colonies celebrated a day for local communities to come together and give thanks to God.
It was not until the height of national division, during the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln first set a uniform date for the nationwide celebration of Thanksgiving.
“In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity,” Lincoln wrote, “order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict.”
Lincoln went on to note that the Civil War had not prevented settlers from expanding the nation’s borders, nor slowed the development of the land's natural resources, nor stopped the population from continuing to grow. “They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God,” Lincoln wrote, “who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.”
There is no civil war today as there was when Lincoln first set a national day of thanks, and thank goodness for that. But the nation is clearly divided to an extent perhaps not seen since then.
Woke police have so captured higher education and corporate America that most people are now scared to speak their minds in the classroom and at work. And forget about a president mentioning the “Most High God” in a proclamation; that simply is no longer acceptable. The First Amendment has never been in greater danger.
Indeed, the entirety of the Bill of Rights is under attack as Democrats seek to undermine the very structure of our constitutional republic. Packing the court, musing over how to add the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as states, abusing executive authority to pass vaccine mandates, abandoning the rule of law to enable a mass illegal migration. We are teetering close to no longer being a country of laws.
This November, however, has ushered in a season of hope. The scales are falling from people’s eyes. Parents across the country are pushing back against the hateful lies told about our country in public schools. Majorities now say they want illegal migrants turned back at the border. Prosecutors who have refused to send criminals to jail are facing recall elections in the bluest of cities.
The public is awakening. People know there are still many reasons why we should be thankful to live in this glorious country. Focus on those reasons and have a wonderful holiday.
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The other day I wrote an article with the question "Should Thanksgiving Be A Nationalistic Holiday"? Of course some of the right wingers here were offended or otherwise dismissive of the question. "Thanksgiving is a day for family only", they say.
Completely unsurprisingly, someone seeds a Thanksgiving article with a nationalistic premise.
"Still Thankful For The Best Country On Earth"
"On Being Thankful For America At Thanksgiving"
Who da thunk it? lol.
I think you can be grateful for the place (and time) in which you were born. That doesn’t make it nationalism (not that nationalism is necessarily a bad thing).
I’m glad I was born in America. I feel blessed for it. There are other places I would happily live, but I can also think of many other situations I could have been born into that would have sucked by comparison. There is nothing wrong with being thankful for that.
That is really not what this seed is about and I think we both know that.
I said what I think on the topic. If you have a different point of view, or think you need to clarify your remarks, try expressing it instead of vague nonsense that impugns my character.
Comment 3.2.4 is the height of hypocrisy. What a load of rank bullshit. Disgusting.
Actually it was so fucking idiotic it was an insult to everyone's intelligence.
Comment 3.2.10 is typical of the babbling incoherency that passes for "discourse" among Trumpist reactionary extremists.
Trumpist-Fascists HATE America and seek to destroy it with every breath they take.
It wasn't Trump supporters that said that they wanted to fundementally change America
XX, why is it so desperately important to you that everyone declare that the U.S. is the "best country on earth" ?
And dont say you are not obsessed, you seed the premise incessantly.
Do you think people who live elsewhere really care if the US is best? A small fraction do of course, they try to come here. But the rest of the billions of people on earth have no interest in the question whatsoever.
It is extremely, fantastically, unlikely that almighty God has set this world up as a competition for nations to try and prove they are "the greatest". That would not be a godly thing to do.
Most often when someone is desperate to be recognized as better than everyone else its evidence of how truly weak and insecure they are.
If one believes in a God you would think they would believe all people are their Gods creations and just as valuable and important as themselves. I guess there are some who are so self-centered and arrogant that they believe only they are 'special' or are some 'chosen' people who get to lord it over others.
I wish that those on the left like the members of AOC squad and those like her that want to bring down this great nation would leave and never come back.
It is the truth! Of course you aren't interested in the truth. You along with your left wing liberal cohorts are interested in is bringing this country down and destroying the things that made this country strong and great.
Seeing as how many try to sneak in to the country illegal and how many come here by legal means, seems to me many people do.
This is what I think
Yes, they clearly do.
We currently are estimated to have around 20 million people who are present in the country illegally. 20 million people with the willingness and the opportunity to break the law just to be here.
Millions more have come legally. Still more probably want to come, but can’t. This has been going on for two and a half centuries. That is no accident.
It might be a small fraction or a large fraction of the world’s population, but it’s way more than any other country. There are a lot of delightful countries in the world, but you’re in denial if you think the USA isn’t at the top of most people‘s lists for countries they would want to emigrate to. It’s also at the top of the list of countries they hope for help from.
You won’t implode if you thank God for that.