Today we celebrate the two hundred and forty eighth anniversary of the independence of the United States of America. It is July fourth, twenty twenty four, one hundred and twenty three days to go until election day and forty six until the Democratic National Convention. This is the warning today we celebrate as Americans today that ruptured history, that began
a new epoch. When the white flag flew over the British lines at York Town, the young major general commanding American forces, Gilbert Dumontier, the Marquis de Lafayette, remarked, humanity has its victory, liberty has its country. Lafayette prophesied that the new world, the United States, would be the salvation of the old and it was. American forces stormed the beaches of France and liberated Europe from the darkness of
fascism in the middle years of the twentieth century. The July fourth independence of the United States of America gave rise to the most powerful nation the world has ever known. We are a nation today of three hundred and thirty million people. Since our beginning, there have only ever been
even hundred million of US. At that beginning, there were three million Americans three million who rebelled against the king, thirteen states on the eastern seaboard of the United States that would go on to become what Churchill called the Great Republic. We are the only country made up of all of the peoples of the world where every known
language is commonly spoken every day. Our nation, despite all of its flaws and manifest hypocrisies, has done more good in the world than all of the other nations put together since the beginning of time. If the measurement is liberation, clothing, feeding, curing, the record of the United States and the improvement of humanity is clear, and our country over time has moved
closer to its goals, to its charter. Today, it is true in America that all of us are created equal and now by a creator, with inalienable rights that include life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness. Think about it, How radical a concept that the purpose of life of government is to secure the pursuit of happiness, not the service of a king or a dictator. This is a nation
that places the citizen at the center. And we have rights and freedoms that have been handed down to us for us to be trustees of for every future American not yet born, we are obligated to hand to them a country that is stronger, closer to its ideas and its ideals. There has never been a tranquil or genteel period in American history. There has never been calm seas
and placid waters. Never. This is a moment where Americans live in a tumultuous time, where there is an opportunity to participate, to practice citizenship because our democracy in many ways is on the line. What will you do? Will you be in the fight or will you be on the sidelines. July fourth is a day famous around the world, a day of defiance and courage and hope. July fourth is a America's birthday. It's one of the most important
days in all of the history of the world. And here we are, two years shy of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution of its declaration of independence, in the middle of a most momentous election. The stakes are high on this July fourth. Freedom as it has ever been is precious, it's fragile, and it's
on the line. Always. We should remember that this July fourth, it is a day of hope and optimism, the day of gratitude, of remembrance and banks and responsibility and obligation. What a thing it is to be an American. We are the luckiest people on Earth. Happy July fourth. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.