Associated Press
2026 will be here before we know it, and with that year comes the 250th anniversary of American independence.
The anniversary push will formally launch July 4 with an event during a Major League Baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs at American Family Field in Milwaukee. The organization spearheading the celebration, known as America250, will start recruiting people to share their stories of what the country means to them.
The country is headed toward the anniversary date as it remains riven politically, its citizens divided over how to view the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and whether President Joe Biden was legitimately elected. Even decisions on where to shop or what beer to drink have been caught up in political fighting.
Before the U.S. reaches its semiquincentennial — try saying that out loud — it will have to survive the 2024 presidential election, which is shaping up to be as divisive as its prior two contests.
Times also were fraught in the run-up to the country’s 1976 bicentennial celebration, which came two years after Richard Nixon resigned his presidency over the Watergate scandal and convulsions over the end of the Vietnam War. It followed a decade that saw the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
The July 4 event will be the formal kickoff for planning for the celebrations. America250, a nonpartisan organization created by Congress in 2016 to mark the anniversary, will oversee that process. It has already enlisted the neighborhood app Nextdoor and the YWCA as partners.
7 comments
Dont Say FLA
July 1, 2023 at 6:06 pm
This post assumes the USA will be a going concern 3 years from now. No telling what’s going to happen between now and then, given the rampant stupidity of the MAGAs and the Rhondas wanting to have a civil war, ’cause that always fixes everything, civil war. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Civil war. LOL @ all the MoRons
Michael K
July 1, 2023 at 7:18 pm
The MAGAts are determined to destroy American democracy and establish a white “Christian” nationalist state.
While the arc of American history has been the expansion of rights and freedom, authoritarian MAGAts are restricting rights and freedoms for anyone “different” and letting the oligarchs call the shots.
My Take
July 1, 2023 at 10:31 pm
The end of the “American ‘Century’ “–1945-2025?
Strangled.
Earl Pitts American
July 2, 2023 at 8:28 am
Good mornting America,
Lets review what we have here:
1. First of all its an AP article so you know its 100% propaganda with a leftist slanted agenda.
2. Secondly everything dividing The USA has been brought on propagated and kept alive by the left and it’s enforcer The Democratic Party.
3. Thirdly the article is total leftist click bait which at my, Earl Pitts American’s, time of posting my, Earl Pitts American’s, informative political knowledge share, has already suckered 3 Dook 4 Brains Leftys [see them above my post] into chiming in with their “Yeah Me Too’s, MAGA BAD’s, and other nonsensical lefty feel goodisims”.
In conclusion its the left that would love the upcoming American aniversary to be divided, cheapned, and marked by riots featuring death and distruction which the left will pay an antifa type of group to committ on inocents and blaim it all on those bad old Republicans.
Other than that have a great 4th of July celebration my true American Patriots.
***Queue Annoyingly Way Too Loud All American Patriotic Music To Make My, Earl Pitts American’s, Fan Base Hearts Swell With Pride (no not “that” kind of “pride” you homertestical freaks) AMERICAN PRIDE***
Thank you America,
Earl Pitts American
Elliott Offen
July 2, 2023 at 9:06 am
👆Neo nazi trolls like this guy are a huge part of the problem. They need jail.
Earl Pitts American
July 2, 2023 at 1:37 pm
Thank you Smelliott,
You are always the best at following up my, Earl Pitts American’s, posting of pure “D” genious knowledge and wisdom shares with wacky nonsensical leftist slanted responses. Studies show your wacky postings make lesser intelegent individuals feel they have found a true Dook 4 Brains Leftist home. We are making lots of money off each and every one of our lefty readers…so keep them coming Smelliott my man!!
Thank you Smelliott,
EPA
tom palmer
July 4, 2023 at 12:52 pm
As the late musician Lee Hays of The Weavers once observed about the seeming right-wing advances around the time of the Nixon coronation.. Be of good cheer. This, too, shall pass. I know this because I;ve had kidney stones.
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