Journeys With Jani

It’s 2025, and we’re still yelling over each other like toddlers who missed naptime.

But today, I’m not here to yell. I’m just here to remind.

Have you stopped for even one second and asked yourself:

Why are people still begging—desperate—to get into this country so many Americans seem to hate?

Why do families cross borders, oceans, deserts, and dangers to stand on our soil?

Because this country—flawed, complicated, messy, and magical—still offers something most of the world does not:

Freedom.

Opportunity.

A fighting chance.

We’ve got problems. Big ones.

We’ve got injustice, inequality, and political insanity on both sides.

But we also have the ability to speak freely, to protest, to vote, to build, to fail, and try again. You think people are willing to risk their lives for just anywhere?

Let’s be real:

America isn’t some shiny ideal from a textbook. It’s a gritty, evolving, melting pot built on ideas—some beautiful, some broken, all worth examining. But tearing it all down in a blind rage isn’t progress. It’s chaos dressed in self-righteousness.

The Constitution? Not perfect.

The Declaration of Independence? Not flawless.

But together, they gave us a foundation—one you’re standing on right now with your Wi-Fi and venting rights in full swing.

We are not supposed to be clones of one another. We are supposed to be one nation made stronger by our differences.

And no, that doesn’t mean blind loyalty or pretending problems don’t exist. It means you show up, you work, and you fight the good fight together. Not against each other like a bad family reunion that never ends.

“One Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

I left out “under God” on purpose—just like I did in 2019 when I first said this. That phrase was added in 1954 during the Cold War and the rise of communism. It’s a historical fact. Doesn’t mean you don’t get to say it if you want—it just means I believe in knowing the whole story before shouting about it.

If that offends you?

Well, that’s your right.

And it’s my right to be a proud, thinking, freedom-loving, truth-speaking Marine Mom who doesn’t sit quietly while folks burn the whole house down over cracks in the drywall.

This is still America.

And I still believe in her.

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