To be American is to believe in our exceptionalism

[Dos Equis]

Good commentary.  I like the ending:

I want to remind us all to teach our children to be patriots in the truest sense, that we are not great in spite of our flaws but because of them, because of how we overcame them—and there is no shame in repentance and making right, that is something our Lord smiles upon.

As we face this our 250th year, let's embrace what it is to be American. It is to believe in ourselves against all odds, to be over confident, to be too loud, too brash, full of piss and vinegar, and to know for real and for true that this nation is worth defending, worth saving, and worth fighting for into the future.

LIBBY EMMONS: To be American is to believe in our exceptionalism and cast off allegiances to foreign lands
If you don't have a stake in this place so deep that you have have cut off your foreign past and see only a future on these lands, among these people, with these founding documents as your own, then you are not American.
by: Libby Emmons 12/30/2025
https://humanevents.com/2025/12/30/libby-emmons-to-be-american-is-to-believe-in-our-exceptionalism-and-cast-off-allegiances-to-foreign-lands?cfp#google_vignette