{"id":14517,"date":"2026-07-23T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=14517"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:42:56","slug":"kelsey-grammer-warns-of-chilling-danger-facing-americans-who-forget-nations-founding-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=14517","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey Grammer warns of chilling danger facing Americans who forget nation&#8217;s founding history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F07%2Fkelsey-grammer.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261784769372\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Actor Kelsey Grammer issued a warning about the\u00a0state of American education, arguing that citizens who fail to learn the nation\u2019s founding history risk being manipulated.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JWu7JAlzlL0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cPlanet Tyrus\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday, Grammer called for an overhaul of the nation\u2019s education system while pushing back against critics who dismiss the Founding Fathers as \u201cold White guys in wigs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t know where you come from, you don\u2019t know who you are. If you don\u2019t know who you are, you can be controlled,\u201d Grammer warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a whole bunch of things that just have got to stop with our educational system, and we got to retool it. There\u2019s no question,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Grammer recently starred in the film, \u201cYoung Washington,\u201d which follows the Founding Father before he became the nation\u2019s first president. Grammer also hosted the six-episode\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/fox-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox Nation series<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe Patriot War,\u201d narrating key points in the American Revolution ahead of the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The former \u201cFrasier\u201d and \u201cCheers\u201d actor said America\u2019s past serves as a blueprint for its future \u2014 one he believes many young people are dismissing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I\u2019m pretty tired of the old White guy in [a] wig thing,\u201d Grammer told Tyrus. \u201cI mean Thomas Jefferson was 33 when he wrote what is arguably the most important political document in the history of man,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Grammer called for an overhaul of the nation\u2019s education system while pushing back against critics who dismiss the Founding Fathers as \u201cold White guys in wigs.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kelsey Grammer stars as \u201cThomas Fairfax\u201d in the 2026 film \u201cYoung Washington.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grammer emphasized that the American Revolution was fought on radical ideas rather than identity and called for a stronger push to teach early American history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt never had anything to do with the way you looked,\u201d Grammer said. \u201cIt had everything to do with the way you thought and the way you dreamed, and that\u2019s all America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He argued the Founding Fathers did not claim America would be perfect but envisioned an evolving quest for better.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kelsey Grammer said America\u2019s past serves as a blueprint for its future. <span class=\"credit\">MediaPunch \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe land of the possible. Yeah, absolutely. It\u2019s always [going to] fall a little short, but that\u2019s just it. It\u2019s the world of becoming. We\u2019re becoming a more perfect union, always, rather than we just are one,\u201d Grammer said.<\/p>\n<p>Grammer said that most of the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence \u201cended in ruin\u201d by sacrificing everything for the nation. He added, \u201cSome of their children were murdered, some of their wives were raped,\u201d and said their spirit of resilience in hard times remains today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey paid the ultimate sacrifice, the ultimate one. And they would probably do it again. And I think that sort of character is what still is in most of us. 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