One quibble with the nation's 250th birthday, it's not July 4th 2026 [View all]
July 4th 1776 was just the divorce date of thirteen individual colonies from an abusive spouse, or when they moved out of the house from abusive parents.
The Articles of Confederation came next on March 1st 1781 and that didn't work out, it was just the individual colonies shacking up together with no real commitment.
If you go by when the United States was actually born, that would be June 21st 1788 with official ratification of the U.S. Constitution. So June 21st 2038 would be our real 250th birthday. It could've went any direction before then.
If you want be more strict by the date that would be when the last original colony ratified the U.S. Constitution and became a state of the United States on May 29th 1790, making May 29th 2040 as our 250th birthdate.
I'm thinking things might improve if we quit putting so much emphasis on the date of our divorce or moving out of the house, and focus more on when we actually got married.
We might gain more long term focus instead of just living for the day, or next quarterly report as a nation?
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