Independence from Britain is good.

Everyone knows Andrew Jackson is not a Founding Father. I specifically wrote “statues of Presidents and Founding Fathers” in the thread-starter post because I knew a variety of statues had been dishonored — including multiple statues of Jefferson and Washington, but also statues of Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt. To…

What say ye to this?

How fecklessly you did conflate the Founding Fathers and Confederate generals, as if to insinuate my patriotism is a stalking horse for treason and racism. But statues of Founding Fathers were indeed dishonored, nowhere more infamously than in New York City.

Ah yes, I recall you now — a zealous defender of English Royalty, of the most intemperate disposition.

Why do you keep saying “of course” like you know me? I don’t even know who you are. Are you researching my comment history?

Huzzah to the Oscars for heeding George Washington’s wise admonishment against foreign entanglements.

I love America and I honor the Founding Fathers.

It’s been a bad few years for patriotic FDR Democrats like myself, but I’m seeing encouraging signs that Democrats are rediscovering patriotism. We still have a long way to go.

George Washington should never share a coin with anybody. An eagle is fine. It’s still Washington’s coin if it’s just an eagle on the other side. But if you put a person there, then it’s only 50% a Washington coin. That’s a demotion. Washington deserves better.

Yet another slap in the face to every American who reveres George Washington.

My fellow Democrats need to make a choice:

My values have stood the test of time. I’m content with them. Not only that, I feel I need to be EXTRA patriotic to compensate for all the badmouthing of America that I hear from fellow Democrats.

I place almost all the blame on the current Left, which wears its hostility to American values and institutions as a BADGE OF HONOR.

The worst of it is that today’s Left has validated rightist theories of leftist threats to American values and institutions. The theories are all true, and I can no longer deny it.

Thank you. Every few months I will share my lifestory to remind Kinja readers that openly patriotic Democrats still exist. Sometimes they engage, mostly not. It’s that type of crowd at the Root. Insular. Jezebel readers are more receptive, but my active threads are almost always deleted by Jezebel mods, so it’s mostly…

Get a good education, graduate, get a job in a company where you can gain some upward mobility, stay out of legal trouble, get married, have some kids, and do your best to save money. It may not be Nirvana in your lifetime, but eventually, wealth will build for your kids and their kids, and it will turn out better…

This may be an unfashionable thing to admit here, but in the past year and a half I’ve lost lifelong black AND white friends. Around the summer of 2020 many of them became outspokenly condemnatory of the Founding Fathers and America and we couldn’t reconcile our differences.

Copyright infringement? Who the hell copyrights a handwritten letter they sent to their parents? What kind of legal system takes such claims seriously?

Ms. Faircloth is a fine writer and I intend her no disrespect when I say it is time for Jezebel to DECLARE INDEPENDENCE from the British royal family.