The 250-Year Experiment the Left Wants to Cancel

“If America’s turning 250 and you still can’t say Happy Birthday without adding an asterisk, maybe the problem isn’t the country — maybe it’s you.” This episode of The Rant Network dives straight into the cultural civil war around July 4th, calling out politicians, media voices, and activists who refuse to celebrate the very nation that gives them the freedom to complain. From the rewriting of history to the obsession with tearing down national pride, this rant exposes how a generation has been taught to hate the country they live in — while millions around the world would give anything to live under the same flag. Love America or don’t, but pretending the U.S. is a “failed experiment” while enjoying every benefit it provides is the height of hypocrisy. If you’re tired of the whining, the revisionism, and the performative outrage, this one will hit you right between the eyes. 

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Transcript

Remembering The Bicentennial Mood

SPEAKER_00 0:10

July 4th, 2026 is a Saturday. And I know that President Trump is trying to get his country ready and everybody ready for America's 250th birthday, Stuart. I remember 1976. I remember 50 years ago the big bicentennial. And I know I'm I'm I was a kid then, but it was a big, big, big, big, big deal back in 200 in the 200s. And I remember they for a year they stretched it out. I don't know if you remember, even on PBS, they were like talking about the bicentennial. It went on for such a long time. You probably were a little kid. I don't know if you know how much you would remember, but I remember the pride and and driving that summer, a summer later, actually 1977, drove a summer later through the eastern coast of the United States. And the one thing my parents noticed was how many American flags were proudly in on porches in front of stores and whatever. Pride of America in the peak of the cold war and all that stuff. And here we are 50 years later, and the sentiment is far

Show Up Or Shut Up For 250

SPEAKER_00 1:18

from the same story. Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

All right, all right. Let's let's call this show very simply. Show up or shut up. It's it's the left's war on America's birthday. I mean that that's what I'm I'm I'm dubbing this broadcast. It's 26 days from America's 250th birthday. 250 years, the longest-running constitutional republic in human history. The country that defeated the British Empire ended slaverily by the Republicans, stored Normandy and ended tyranny, put a man on the moon, produce more wealth, more freedom, and more innovation than any civilization that's ever been on the recorded planet. We don't know what happened before. Aliens could exist. However, in the America left, the Democratic Party can't bring itself to say happy birthday or even show up to perform at the event. No, one lousy day they can't give America one lousy day against political theater. Let's go back to the beginning because it's this hatred didn't start with Twitter. It didn't start with AOC or anyone in the squad. The rod goes so deep, when I utter the name, you're not going to believe it. In 2008,

Transformation Politics And Patriotism

SPEAKER_01 3:00

Barack Obama stood in front of a crowd at Columbia, Missouri, five days before he was elected president, and said, We are five days for fundamentally transforming the United States of America. No shit. He wasn't kidding. Fundamentally transforming. That's not language of a man who loves his country, if it's his country. That is the language of a man who thinks his country is a problem that needs to be solved. On the campaign trail, same year, Michelle Obama says, and I quote, for the first time in my adult life, I really feel proud of my country. She said that in Milwaukee, February 18th, 2008. Give her take a couple of words. For the first time in her adult life, she's 44 years old. This country gave her every opportunity she had. Princeton, Harvard Law, a career platform, the White House. And this is the first time she felt proud of when her husband was about to win an election. That's not patriotism. That's narcissism dressed up as a civic engagement, smoking a cigarette, drinking a beer on the White House lawn.

Project 1619 And Classroom Narratives

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Then came Project 1619. The New York Times, the so-called paper of record, decided in 2019 that the real founding of America wasn't 1776. It was 1619, the year first enslaved Africans arrived.

unknown 4:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

The thesis, America was not founded on liberty, it was founded on slavery, the Declaration of Independence, a cover story, the Constitution, the document to protect slaveholders. 250 years of progress, sacrifice, and national greatness reduced to a single original sin that can never be forgiven, never be redeemed, and never be celebrated. Not even when you elect a black African-American man to president the highest office in the world. They pushed that curriculum into American classrooms, into your kids' schools. Because you can convince a generation of America that there's a country was rot from day one. They'll never fight to save it. Yep. Programming, my friends, programming. And now, now, as we approach the 4th of 2026, the 250th anniversary, the greatest political document ever written, PJ Media reported just this past Friday that the left couldn't even pause the political, the politics for one day of Americans' great state fair. One of the previews celebrating semi-quinsensual. One day, one day to celebrate. Meanwhile, the Blaze noted this morning that the nation is heading towards what they called, and what I want to hear, this a weak and divided commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Weak and divided. America's 250th, weak and divided. You know why? Because half the political establishment spent 50 years telling Americans there's nothing worth celebrating. Here's the truth. Alexis de Corville saw these people coming in 1840. 186 years ago, he warned about exactly this type of people who would trade self-government and natural rights for a government dependency and soft deposition. People who would wrap tyranny in the language of compassion, who would cover society, in his words, with a network of small, complicated minute and uniform rules that hinders, represses, innervates, extinguishes the spirit of any free people. That's Alexis de Corville, Democracy in America, 1840. Sound familiar? That's a modern Democratic Party. That's DEI mandate. Every speech code, every government program, every regulation, every tax, every curriculum rewritten. Not freedom, soft deposition. And they've been doing it so long that the federal debt above 40 trillion projected hit 77 trillion by third 2036, according to CBOE. And then they have the audacity to point out that number. See, America's broken.

Tocqueville And Soft Despotism Fears

SPEAKER_01 9:04

So I'm gonna ask the question directly, and I want someone on the left to actually answer it, whether you're from Jamaica or whether you're from Canada. Maybe you're from both. Who on the left doesn't call America a failed experiment? Name one, besides Fetterman. Not rhetorically. Name one. Name one prominent Democrat, one progressive, media figure, squad member, Ivy League professor, one New York Times columnist who actually looks at July 4th, America to Internal 50 years old, and says, without conditions, without asterisk, without but slavery, or but systematic racism or butt colonialism attached. This is the single greatest country in history, and I am extremely proud to be America, one name. Because the silence is the answer, David. Left in America because they don't believe in America, they believe in power, they believe in transformation, they believe in America that doesn't exist yet. When they get to build, and they will tear down every flag, every monument, every birthday party that stands between them and that vision. 250 years of the most remarkable human achievements in history of civilization, and the American left can't be bothered to show up. David, I got an idea. Six, three, four. How many hundreds of episodes, tens of thousands of little snippets posted? It's shocking to hear what our friends and family have to say. It's shocking. You know, people talk about slavery, people don't talk about the Republican Party that actually got rid of it. People don't talk about the largest slave traders in the world, were not white Americans or white colonialists, they were black African Americans and black Africans who traded black slavery in America. It's 250 years, David. It's 250 years.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

You know, what one thing I'll tell you is this your education system, let alone mine, here in Canada, sucks. Really does. Because if you ask Americans today to talk about their history, the founding, and whatever, you're right. You're gonna get America was bad because of slavery. You're gonna get America was bad because we are a colonial power. You're gonna get a lot of all those bad things because that has been brainwashing the the the people right now for decades. And unfortunately, Stuart, what's going on right now in your country is a lack of awareness of what really happened. There is a real look, can you say that things are perfect? No, but I can't tell you any country that is perfect. And Stuart, as I told you before we started this recording, my question is can you find me five countries where it's better?

SPEAKER_01 12:57

Find two, find two, why five? Two.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

But wait, wait, wait. I want okay, and I'll tell you, and I know people are gonna say me, but David, you know, you've seen the happiness index. People in Finland are happy, it's people in Sweden are happier. And I'm like, don't give me some baloney, funny, baloney they say they're happy in

Education Failures And Complaining Culture

SPEAKER_00 13:15

Denmark, too.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

That just banned what what did they just ban in Denmark?

SPEAKER_00 13:19

Come on, man. So my my thing is that if you look at places, even in Israel, they'll tell you it's it's a it's a happier place, surprisingly enough, than what, but that's not the point. Here's what you're all failing to catch, guys. Politics, politics, politics is an imperfect game. There is no political structure today that is perfect. If you want, if you want, take a look at every single country out there, and if you're gonna tell me socialism is better, then you're miseducated. If you're gonna tell me autocracy is better, that living in North Korea is better, as Dennis Rodman once said, you're misguided. What's beautiful about what you have today as a democracy is the ability to criticize the government freely. You have a right, you have a right to say that America is a failed experiment without any repercussions, legal or otherwise. You're right, you have that. But when I see politicians who were sworn to uphold the law and protect its citizens, and when it comes time to do the Pledge of the Allegiance and turns their back on the flag, now I'm a little bit pissed. And I'm a Canadian, I don't care really the US. What you do in the US is your problem, people. But it's the mindset, the mindset that you're not willing to look past your hatred, you're not willing to come in with open eyes. You think by being an elected politician like AOC, like Bernie Sanders, like Rashida Talib, that you're trying to do good in your head? You think you're doing good, really? In what way? In what way are you breaking up this whole thing? Yes, Bernie talks about the oligarchs, his favorite word, these rich oligarchs, people like Elon Musk shouldn't exist. If people like Elon Musk didn't exist, would you be driving right now an electric car? Would you be really further exploring space at this moment and other things he's been working on? Oh, Apple shouldn't be as big as it is. Okay, so take your iPhones and throw them in the garbage people, take your iPads and get rid of it. Take your Macs and give it to a poor person. Like the the the mindset that everything is bad, and and and uh with all due respect to minorities today, it isn't perfect, and you have a lot of shit happening, yeah. But you're pointing the finger in the wrong direction, agreed, because right now in your universities, you were told the it all the foot the faults, it's the white man, it's all the white men. The only people who can actually say that the fault of the white man is really fault of the white man, your indigenous population. But let's get real. If you take the African American population today that is in the United States, and you can find me a country that is better, where the opportunities are better, I would be hard-pressed for you to find that. And I would say the same thing for any minority, including the Jewish community. See, the problem, Stuart, is you're not America first. And you take the whole political game of trying to get your guy voted in by shitting on the country that's giving you Starbucks, iPhones, wonderful clothing. You're taking that country and saying it's bad here, it's the worst here, ladies and gentlemen. I would challenge you at this point to go to places like I don't know, Pakistan, go down to Venezuela, Jamaica, go down to any other country. Don't pick on country, Stuart. Like you have you you love to do that. Just stay, just calm down for a minute. Find me five countries in which you could find a better quality of life, a better opportunity. Yes, your healthcare system's broken. Yes, the education system is broken. Yes, there are a lot of places where you could say, but look over here where the education is better, and then you're gonna find that they're taxed to the health. Then you're gonna say, Oh, look over here, people are happier, but then you find out that their winters are nine months a year. Like, what do you want exactly in your life? Listen, lefties, here's what the problem is. Here's what you've learned responsibility and accountability. With good, there's always bad. There's no perfect, and all you've learned is how to complain and whine and make up stuff. But what you haven't been willing to do is to open your eyes and say, it's actually pretty good here. It ain't perfect, but it's actually pretty good. And I'm talking as a Canadian, I'm talking as a person who looks at the United States and goes, Wow, look at what you guys could do, look at the opportunities that you have that we don't. And so enough is enough with the whining and the crying that this is a failed experiment. Every country is a failed experiment. Stop believing that the United States is the only country where things are bad.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

Ah, look, look, Canada remains 42% lowest against all G7 peers. Yep. Against GDP to debt ratio. Yep. That that really began. Legitimate criticism is 11 years ago, the liberal deficit, as it's called. And little Mark Kearney likes to walk around, our country is strong. It isn't, it's weak, there's nothing left to it. Listen, David, I I appreciate your adding on to what seemed to have been a monologue, but I I I want to I want to just you know give note that today's broadcast wouldn't have been possible without David even bringing it up. I gotta thank you. I and I'm annoyed, I'm annoyed at no point that yes, the education system in the United States really pulled a number. And you know what? It comes from the long game of actually Sue, where you basically you're destroying the country from within over time. And and again, it's amazing how these people like Sanders and AOC and the Roslita Talibs that have nothing else in their life that could have generated a basic meager living without being in America. You couldn't do it in Canada, you couldn't do it in England, you couldn't do it in France, and you couldn't do it in Germany. America is the land of the free, it is a beacon of light in the entire world. Show me a brighter light, and I will be shocked to be and be amazed. Show me a brighter light. Canada used to

Canada Comparisons And A Final Challenge

SPEAKER_01 20:10

be a beacon, right, with the United States in the 1960s, and the light started to shimmer down in the 70s and was basically diminishing through the 80s and 90s. That's Canada's light being snuffed out by the liberal caucus. All right, David, wrap this, wrap this puppy up.

SPEAKER_00 20:33

I gotta tell you something. First of all first of all, let me let me let me just give you a little thing because you love to compare Canada. No, no, no, no, no. Listen, we're not perfect. I know that, but I gotta tell you that even through you know, you look at people today, and Canadians are looking at America and saying, Do we pick up a move? Stuart, let me tell you something. If life was so bad, let me give you a couple of things to uh to ponder. There's a great surgeon here in Montreal who is leaving to move to Georgia. It made quite stink in many international publications because guess what? He's leaving because the Canadian healthcare system stinks to high health. Amongst other things, including anti-Semitism and other things, Dr. Moss is picking up and leaving Montreal. He's moving to Georgia. If life was so bad, you think he's picking up and leaving to go to the your failed experiment? So it's time to tell the Bruce Springsteens of this world and the other performers and the actors who are just sitting there and sitting there and going, you know, every concert, every opportunity to crap on America. And when they say we're not crapping on America, we're crapping on Trump, you're crapping on America, people. As you approach your 250th birthday, and Stuart claimed that I gave you a monologue after his 10-minute rendition. Let me put it to you this way, ladies and gentlemen. It's really simple. In the 22 odd minutes that we've spoken, what have we said? Just be proud of where you are. Can it be better? Yes. If you want it to be better, get involved in a positive way. Shitting on something without a solution is not a solution is not a way to improve it. All it is is just shitting. And to sit here and to tell me that Cuba is a better country, and I heard this, Stuart, Cuba is a better place, and Venezuela, according to AOC, was a better place, and all these other places, then pick up and move there. Because the US, we need the world needs the United States, whether you like it or not.

SPEAKER_01 22:35

Wrap it. How'd you want everybody? Guys, I've wrapped it. See you in the next day.