The professional grievance industry embedded within media, podcasting and punditry in America has a problem; a World Cup problem.  Hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world are discovering just how amazing the United States is, and they can’t stop raving about it on social media.

The grievance class are being forced to take a break as their normally loud, shrieking voices are being drowned out by happy sounds, songs of joy, jubilance even.  Flags are waving, people are smiling and that pesky American exceptionalism is visible all over the place.

Yup, there’s visible patriotism everywhere and its being compounded by Freedom 250 events, celebrating 250 years of just being awesome America.

Not only is the American flag being celebrated, but ironically European national flags are being waved everywhere in celebration of nationalism – and the people waving them don’t have to worry about being harassed by police or being arrested for it.

This is a new experience for young Europeans and they are overwhelmed. The joy is evident and it’s more than a little awesome to see all of the videos capturing the thrill of it all.

As one observer noted in a moment of contemplation, heck, this country didn’t even need to build anything to host the FIFA World Cup, they just changed the electronic displays on the modern billboards.

Qatar built stadiums from scratch, constructed a complete metro system, redesigned roads, hotels, and entire neighborhoods—even after the event ended, they said they were going to give away a stadium because they had one to spare.

South Africa had to erect new stadiums, parking lots, and massive infrastructure projects; it was a multi-billion-dollar investment that ate up part of its GDP.

Brazil burned through billions on infrastructure and ended up with a president in jail for corruption (Lula); in the end, construction was still underway when the event kicked off.

Russia remodeled half the country to measure up, and even then, the infrastructure deficiencies—from transportation to other areas—were still glaring.

And the United States?

They just changed the grass in a few stadiums. Period. Nothing else. No megaprojects, no monumental works, no “reinventing” cities.

And this happens because when you already have world-class infrastructure, the World Cup isn’t a problem—it’s just a formality. {source}

In American reality, the SEC football stadiums could have hosted the entire World Cup event all by themselves; easy peasy. Why? Because we are the greatest nation on the face of the earth, and all of those inhabitants are experiencing it in real life. This America thing is, actually, awesome.  All of it.

There are great American eagles flying around.  Massive, thundering jets booming just above the audience.  Rockets exploding with great fireworks and exhibitions of colorful explosions accompanied by music.  Every sense is overwhelmed, and yet to an American, it’s just another Tuesday.

The great American podcast business is being drowned out by all this international optimism; it is very funny to witness.  The voices of the American critics cannot begin to break through the noise and jubilation in the background, and the happy people just won’t shut up.

How are these grievance-class podcasters supposed to make money, when their best level Mark Levin bitching and griping screeches are not loud enough?  There’s a certain funny unfairness about it all.

Making matters worse, the jubilation is not limited to soccer games.  The happy people are starting to attend ordinary American activities like baseball games, rodeos, car and boat races and then the national parks and beaches.

Jumpin’ ju-ju-bones, all of this is not what they expected.

At the same time, the happy people have realized America is a massive country. They are flying around and driving for hours only to realize they haven’t even left a few states yet…. and there’s 50 of them?  OMG you cannot be serious.

This is America.

This is the America the great American grievance class have forgotten to appreciate.

This is also the America their local media back home lied to them about.  The happy people were told that everything over here was fraught with drugs, gangs and terrible dirty stuff.  America was Gotham City. Except it isn’t. It is not any of that.

America is clean, organized and fun.  The American people are friendly, beyond generous and all-around awesome.

The Happy People are encountering everyday Americans.  Middle American people who don’t need passports because there’s no reason to leave this amazing country – because all of the best stuff in the rest of the world is available right here without taking a trip.

Keep in mind that for Europeans coming out of the COVID era, their entire life existence is constructed around keeping their global footprint as small as possible.  America is not that, at all.

The American food is big and tasty; the American stores are a hundred-fold larger than anything the Happy People have ever experienced. The roads are easy to travel. Everything is modern and the internet speed is way faster than anything at home.  Technology exists at a scale that is far deeper than anything they expected.

This is America.

We are Americans, and a new generation is gaining appreciation for why Lady Liberty can stroll along the Champs-Elysées with a swagger befitting Mae West; because without her arrival, they’d be speaking German in the Louvre.

For the better part of the past few decades a group of intellectuals and influencers have been promoting an insufferable storyline that it’s better to be sitting around a campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off each other.

Enough.

We are Americans.

When I hear Donald Trump say, “Let’s Make America Great Again”, I also hear the familiar echo “cowboy up” people.

It’s high time we stop being embarrassed about our exceptional nature, and start being proud of it again.   Because when it matters most, when it really counts, when it’s really needed, there’s a whole bunch of people all around this world of ours that need to feel the type of optimism that walks with a swagger.

And right now, there’s thousands of non-Americans experiencing and realizing why that swagger exists.

That my friends, is pretty darned cool.

 

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