The good news behind the low number of Americans who believe the best is yet to come
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As America celebrates its 247th birthday, the morale of our Union is disheartening.
Lou Holtz is a legendary college football coach and chairman of the Center for 1776 at the America First Policy Institute.
In 1773, the name of America was merely the name of a continent. The idea of a nation was not even stirring in the minds of our Founding Fathers, and July 4 was yet another day of work. It would be a year before the First Continental Congress met and three before the Declaration of Independence gave birth to our Nation.
However, resentment was on the rise among the colonists. The Tea Act was passed in May of 1773, and Benjamin Franklin leaked Royal Governor Hutchinson’s letters that discussed the colonists’ lack of liberties in June. Six months later, the Boston Tea Party signaled another landmark moment for the colonists’ courageous commitment to liberty.