Posted on 07/04/2026 10:26:04 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
As the country marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a new ๐๐๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ survey lands like a gut punch: nearly half of all Americans โ ๐๐% โ donโt know what America 250 is actually celebrating. Among Gen Z, itโs worse: ๐๐% couldnโt say.
Laura Ingraham didnโt hold back on air: โ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ตโ๐ด ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ด? ๐๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต? ๐๐ณ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ?โ
The answer, judging by the numbers, is neither โ just a void where basic civics used to be. This is the anniversary of the single document that founded the country: the ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐๐ง๐๐, ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐, ๐๐๐๐. Itโs not an obscure date. Itโs the one every American child used to be able to name without blinking. A generation raised on ideology instead of history canโt defend a country it was never taught to understand. ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐งโ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ง๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ
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Iโm surprised the numbers arenโt higher.
We need to start saying independence Day, not Fourth of July. We do not say December 25 or October 31, etc.. uninformed people might learn what the day is about if we always say Independence Day, no matter how many syllables it has.
pretty much ties into this story...
College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-students-oecd-reading-literacy-10-year-old
Yes...and the polls on socialism.
That isn't the only thing that should be removed from classrooms.
We also need to remove the alphabet mafia garbage from our schools once and for all.
Sad.
And they're not European immigrants either. They're Third World retards.
And their vote counts every bit as yours and mine does. And they're going to vote themselves our money.
I think we had a good 250 year run, but it might be time to look outside our beloved Constitution for solutions.
Public schools, it figures
Never let anyone tell you “the schools are failing”.
They are operating exactly as designed, and very successfully.
>> We need to start saying independence Day, not Fourth of July.
EXCELLENT point. It is up to us to teach those who follow us.
>> [The schools are] operating exactly as designed, and very successfully.
Yep, and this FACT and the history behind it are in great need of repeatingQ
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Despite all of my education, I still havenโt figured out why September 3, (as in September 3, 1783) isnโt a national holiday.
Well, little be little we gave the Marxists control over all of our education establishment so what else should we expect?
Now we have a generation of mind controlled leftist zombies who are worse than Maoists, and more dangerous.
No surprise. Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt - ‘The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America’
The real question is * Why are Republicans attempting to destroy the Gen Z youth that survived the test? These same low lifes were part and partial of destroying the ‘Tea Party’
Guess what - at first one is upset that the left bought into the propaganda. Then you’re upset that the right has bought into the propaganda.
Personally and I speak for many ‘God bless’ the Gen Z conservatives that has seen through it all. There’s no doubt that they have some work to do but we’re called to guide them not destroy them. Our time, boomer time is so over and I’m grateful. We’re no different than the left, we bought into it. No more.
Make it a law that all cell phones must read allowed what each Historic national holiday is for on that day prior to use by the owner.
Not only have we let public schools indoctrinate our children, we also paid for it.
Honestly, I’m certain that teaching could be done better if we went to an education system in which people from the community with expertise in different areas (math / applied math, history, science, economics, writing, English, etc.) taught a few classes each.
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