Just when Americans were gearing up to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday, radical leftist Bill Ayers and a Princeton University professor decided to use the occasion to sneer at the country that gives them their freedom.

The pair held a Chicago event called “250 Years of Resistance,” which served as little more than a showcase for their contempt for American values and history, as reported by Breitbart.

Ayers, the former Weather Underground terrorist who spent the 1970s bombing U.S. institutions, joined forces with Princeton professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Friday night in the Democrat-controlled city of Chicago.

Their goal appeared to be simple: mock America on the eve of its milestone birthday and celebrate their continued resistance to everything this country stands for.

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Speaking to an approving audience at the National Public Housing Museum, Ayers described the Declaration of Independence as a “mixed and contradictory document.”

He bragged that during America’s bicentennial year in 1976, his extremist gang produced a poster declaring “200 Years Is Enough.”

Half a century later, his opinion seems frozen in time. “Now it’s 250 years, and I feel similarly,” he told the audience, suggesting that the nation’s founding and achievements still deserve his scorn rather than admiration.

Ayers seemed especially proud to continue defining his life by his opposition to the United States, brushing past the bloody legacy of his own organization.

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The Weather Underground took credit for 25 bombings across the country, including attacks on the U.S. Capitol building, the Pentagon, and other government offices.

These acts of terror were justified by Ayers and his group as part of their so-called fight against imperialism.

When he finally surrendered to authorities in 1980, Ayers escaped justice only because of illegal federal wiretaps that forced prosecutors to drop the charges.

Instead of fading into obscurity, he reinvented himself as an “education reformer,” a move that put him in a position to influence the minds of young people rather than destroy property.

In an ironic twist, the former bomber ended up as a professor training teachers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

But Ayers’s message of resentment toward America has not changed. His colleague at Friday’s event, Princeton’s Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, took the anti-American rhetoric even further during the question-and-answer session.

“This audience is all like, ‘Fuck the USA,’” she said proudly, prompting laughter and cheers.

She followed up by attacking the very idea of loving one’s country, dismissing patriotism as “the idea of loving a nation state.” Taylor proclaimed, “The nation state itself is destructive.”

Taylor also railed against American borders, claiming that “borders are deadly” and “borders kill people.” In her view, a nation that maintains clear boundaries and defends its sovereignty is somehow guilty of oppression.

It is a vision that aligns more closely with Marxist internationalism than with any notion of national responsibility or order.

Manhattan Institute analyst Stu Smith, who posted a clip of the event, summarized what many viewers undoubtedly felt.

He wrote that these activists represent a class embedded in higher education that works tirelessly to dismantle the country from within.

Smith warned that Taylor’s worldview would “dismantle the United States as a sovereign country.” According to him, a world without borders means no real sovereignty and no meaningful self-government by the people.

Smith pointed out that this ideology is rooted in the old Marxist fantasy of a borderless workers’ paradise where nations and citizenship no longer exist.

“In practice,” he wrote, “it means dissolving the country out from under its own people.”

It is a blunt but accurate assessment of what the activist left has been advocating for decades, often on the taxpayer’s dime through publicly funded universities.

The spectacle in Chicago serves as a reminder of how deeply the radical left dominates modern academia.

People like Taylor and Ayers hold influence at elite institutions, yet they spend their time tearing down the very system that affords them prestige and opportunity.

They denounce the nation that gives them the freedom to insult it and label patriotism as a vice.

While millions of Americans gathered with family and friends to honor Independence Day, these academics chose to celebrate “resistance” and hostility.

The disconnect could not be clearer. One side cherishes the miracle of liberty. The other curses its existence.

The fact that prominent universities and civic institutions celebrate these anti-American rants rather than condemn them shows just how far our cultural rot has spread.

The left’s message has evolved from criticizing the government to rejecting the very idea of America itself.

Ayers may no longer plant bombs, but his ideological explosives continue to detonate inside classrooms, teacher training programs, and university lecture halls.

The end result is generation after generation taught to despise their own nation. For Ayers and Taylor, that appears to be the ultimate victory in their “250 years of resistance.”

As patriots wave flags this Independence Day, it might be worth remembering that the battle for America’s future is not fought only in Washington or on foreign fields.

It is also fought in universities, classrooms, and public institutions where radicals still echo the same tired cry that Ayers made half a century ago: “America is the enemy.”

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