As America marks its 250th anniversary, the country should be celebrating one of the greatest political experiments in human history. Instead, nearly one in five Americans say they do not plan to celebrate Independence Day, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The survey also found that two in five Americans doubt the United States will even endure another 250 years. Those numbers should concern everyone regardless of political affiliation because they point to something far deeper than disagreement over one election or one president.

The Reuters report illustrates just how fractured the country has become. Some residents interviewed said they would not celebrate because they object to the current administration, while others argued that Independence Day should transcend politics altogether. The fact that Americans can no longer agree on celebrating the nation’s founding tells you how deep the divide has become.

This is not new. I previously wrote about the collapse in national pride, and the numbers showed exactly where the fracture is taking place. Only 29% of Democrats said they were extremely or very proud to be American, compared with 90% of Republicans. Among younger Americans, the figure was only 36% for those aged 18 to 34, while 75% of Americans 65 and older still expressed strong pride in the country. That is the generational and political divide our computer has been warning about. A nation cannot survive when one side is taught to despise its own founding while still demanding the constitutional protections that founding created.

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