In President Joe Biden's announcement on social media of his decision to not run for reelection, he ticked off the many wonderful achievements during his three and a half years in the nation's highest office.

But if things are so great, as Biden seems to think, why are Americans so dispirited?

Biden's personal polling is horrible. General polling shows an American public in a sour state of mind.

Per Gallup of a few weeks ago, only 41% say they are "extremely proud" to be an American, compared to 70% 20 years ago.

In Biden's own Democratic Party, only 34% say they are "extremely proud" to be an American.

America's first president, George Washington, was urged to run again after serving two terms. He declined, motivated by the ideals of America's founding that the nation would be about individual freedom informed by moral ideals, and not by government and politics. Washington feared the politicization of the nation, that it would become everything........

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