Are you looking forward to the TriCentennial?

[exitseven]

It seems like yesterday that America celebrated the BiCentennial. In a short 50 years it will be 300 years old. Are you looking forward to it? Do you think that America will still be the greatest country on earth?

[OlderAndWiser]

If I was alive for the tricentennial, I would be 121 years old. Probably not gonna happen!

Also, the one constant in life is change. When you are young, the changes are exciting. I remember when my family got its first color television and first microwave oven. I thought life had taken a quantum leap forward. But as I have gotten older, I have not embraced all changes. Some of them make me uncomfortable, and I suspect those feelings will multiply as I get older. (That does not indicate a flaw in my character; no, it seems to simply be a ubiquitous part of our human nature.) So. . . I'm not sure I would want to be alive in 2076.

And maybe that is God's plan for preparing us to transition to the life hereafter.

[strateguy632]

cool you and @exitseven probably remember the bicentenial in 1976.

[OlderAndWiser]

@strateguy632 I have a pewter shaving mug that was sold to celebrate the bicentennial. I bought one for my old man and one for myself. Still using it. Probably the last guy on the planet to use shaving soap, mug, and brush.

[OlderAndWiser]

I turned 21 in the bicentennial year.

[exitseven]

@strateguy632 I can remember the tall ships..

[lightbulb27]

I won't be around for that one.

We will be around, but cannot imagine what that will look like. The kids running it then aren't even born yet. I think the founding fathers... and the women that controlled them, would be very impressed with what their experiment became.

It's amazing to think you can be born here and be American. That is not possible in most other places.

We are the most powerful nation on earth in all measures. Scary to think... hard to believe, because we were free to explore.

[Lliam]

I celebrated America's bicentennial in 1976. I even have some memorabilia.
But I won't be around for the tricentennial

Things have really gone downhill over the past 50 years. People who were born in the 1990s or later have no idea what freedom is.
So I have no idea what America or the world will be like 50 years from now. I'm not optimistic.

In the 50s and 60s, there were projections that technology would produce a utopian future. But is seems that technology is actually bringing about an inescapable dystopia.

[OlderAndWiser]

Our engineering abilities to advance technology moved much quicker than we could adapt in a favorable way. Kids use digital communications instead of talking face-to-face, their social skills are deficient, and they wonder why ITF they never connect with anyone.

And, of course, AI is like the technology problem on steroids.

Death to all G@G bots!

[strateguy632]

t. b. h. i will probly die age 80 before it 2076. muslim birth rate will be enough to vote sharia without any lobby. the new name will be u. s. a. united sharia of america. no more gay parade. see if i am wrong.

[TrueConfection]

😬
God still has His hand on this nation 🙏❤️

[exitseven]

@TrueConfection Yes He does

[AviatorTom]

I probably won't be around for the Tricentennial.

I live one day at a time. Wasn't there a old TV show with that title?

[exitseven]

read this book. You will be there.

See you in the TriCentennial!

[SolitarySolace]

Yes, I am. Though, if we end up a communist country due to democratic socialists taking over the Democratic Party and republicans seem to prefer that over the type of democrat party we’ve had lately we might not have a government encouraging a tricentennial celebration of the country. In fact a democratic socialist government would likely condemn such a celebration

[Iron_Man]

Yes are you gonna grill me a steak on a charcoal grill outdoors? Will there be aged Black Angus steak? 🥩 And southern style potato salad? And baked potato with chives🥗 And don’t forget the good old American apple pie

[Iron_Man]

Will there be fireworks and girls in bikinis in the daytime?

[exitseven]

I plan on having a big blowout complete with fireworks. I might get the Rolling Stones to perform.

[Iron_Man]

Awesome I’ll be there. Let me know when to show up.

[exitseven]

okay😎😎😎

[Iron_Man]

🥳👍🏻

[CrystalPeak]

Like this?

[TrueConfection]

Funny! I was thinking about that early this morning! I don’t think I’ll be around for it. I remember the bicentennial quarters when I was little, but I didn’t understand their significance. I see our nation’s constitution has been eroding, but I don’t see any other nation rising higher. I think 🇺🇸 will still be the greatest nation on Earth.

[exitseven]

You have a good chance of making it.

[TrueConfection]

Sometimes I wonder!

[Dargil]

In my unhumble opinion, our 50-state federal republic is highly unlikely to reach 300 years, The divisions are too deep and our people are ignorant of civics.

[Calyptomaniac]

I'm not too sure if I want to live to be 89 or not... I'll have to decide that later lol

[BCRanger10]

If I live that long (I wouldn't count on it), that would be quite a thing to experience.

[Jamie05rhs]

Oh, man. I will definitely be ready to die by then. (In more ways than one.)

[Chazmatazz269]

😂😂😂😂😂
I definitely won’t be around for that and the USA probably won’t either.

[CrystalPeak]

Will Bernie Sanders still be in office by then?

[strateguy632]

no. he will write his eyewitness book about civil war. 😉

[CrystalPeak]

Nice!