I'm Still Proud to Be an American. My Definition of What That Means Has Changed Completely.

Happy Fourth of July. Robbie grew up believing America was unambiguously the greatest country in the world. He's still proud to live here. But the rose-colored glasses came off somewhere along the way — between watching a debate that made him genuinely concerned for the country, having kids who could one day be drafted into a war he doesn't believe in, and watching political theater replace actual leadership.This is not a doom and gloom episode. It's an honest reckoning from someone who loves his country, distrusts his government, falls somewhere in the ideological middle, and still believes that regular people have the power to define what America actually is — if they're willing to stop being afraid of their own opinions.Topics covered: how Robbie's view of America evolved from childhood patriotism to healthy skepticism, why having kids changed his relationship with war and national sacrifice, the manipulation and polarization that both parties are running and why it scares him more than any specific policy, why the people in the political middle are the quietest voices in the room and what that costs us, and why he still believes individual Americans can define what this country stands for.Send a message about the episode! Support the showhttps://linktr.ee/unhingedfather