VIEWPOINT | What are we really celebrating? Reflections on America’s 250th anniversary
Guest column by Austin Wolf
As America marks its 250th anniversary, I keep coming back to one simple question.
What exactly are we celebrating?
Too often, we’ve reduced patriotism to symbols.
The biggest flag.
The loudest speech.
The politician who wraps themselves in the flag the tightest.
But I don’t think that’s what happened 250 years ago.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, ordinary people did something extraordinary.
They looked at the most powerful empire on Earth and said, “No.”
Not because they wanted a different king.
Because they didn’t want a king at all.
They believed something the world had never truly tested before: that ordinary people were capable of governing themselves.
