HAPPY SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL FROM AMERICA’S SOCIALISTS!
In any other era, Hollywood would have made hay this summer. Networks could have broadcast concerts and events, fireworks. Maybe a few blockbuster history movies. It’s all about the narrative. Trump is president so life must suck. If concert held, people might think Trump not…
— Bookshelf Q. Battler (@bookshelfbattle) May 30, 2026
Tweet concludes, “Trump is president so life must suck. If concert held, people might think Trump not bad.”
Democrats in 1976 knew they had to muster some patriotic spirit to celebrate the Bicentennial. It helped that Gerald Ford was the last liberal go-along to get-along Republican president to date (unless you were worked on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, where he was viewed as the Antichrist).
More on that from a post I wrote last week: The Past is a Foreign Country; They Sell Cola Differently There.
Coca-Cola commercial from 1976
The past is a foreign country pic.twitter.com/TnVHQiF6Ah
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 21, 2026
UPDATE:
Anyone who claims the lack of joy about the 250th is a function of a rough economy was not alive in 1976.
The country rocked in its 200th celebration and the economy was a FREAKING MESS.
There is this Gen Z misconception that the '70s and early '80s were some sort of economic…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) May 31, 2026
Tweet continues, “There is this Gen Z misconception that the ’70s and early ’80s were some sort of economic golden age of readily available, well-paying jobs, low cost housing and an all around sense of prosperity. WRONG. Google ‘Stagflation.’ Google ‘gas lines.’ Google ‘mortgage interest rates in the 1980s.’ Our economy today is a golden age by comparison, without exaggeration. Yet somehow in 1976 we could gleefully celebrate our nation’s birthday without Democrats turning it into a Howard Zinn-inspired anti-history hatefest.”