The Crowd 308: The USA 250

Hi Crowd! Today the USA turns 250 years old. Our relationship has always been a bit complicated. I recognize that the divide between what the United States of America promised to be and what it’s become is far wider than many want to admit. Honestly it has been since the beginning. But I also hold hope that it can be better. The goal of a “more perfect union” remains something of a carrot on a stick, in sight but just out of reach. But a goal worth trying to find a way to achieve. That won’t happen with blind loyalty or forced nationalism but through honest reflection and criticism and improvement. I’m not saying anything new here, but 250 years in it still needs to be repeated. “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” -James Baldwin I could write a hundred different newsletters today, my Quicky digest (which pulls from all the newsletters I subscribe to) is filled with people doing…