Judge Judy Tells America’s Haters To Find Another Country

Judge Judy Sheindlin is making no apologies for loving America, telling people who want to remake the country from the ground up that they are free to look elsewhere.

The 83-year-old television icon delivered the blunt message while reflecting on the country, her career and the values she believes helped make the United States successful.

“I have a house, and I have a home. I consider America my home. America has been good to me. I think that it’s the greatest country in the world,” Sheindlin said.

She then went a step further, taking aim at those who come to America while insisting the country itself needs to be fundamentally transformed.

“If you don’t like this country, go somewhere else,” she continued. “Don’t come to the greatest country in the world, the most successful country in the world, and say, ‘I want to change it.’ There are other countries that are the something else that you want. Go there. Go there. But don’t come into my home and say, ‘I want to change it.’”

Sheindlin also defended the free-market principles and culture of achievement she believes helped build the country.

“We are a capitalist country that revered excellence, that revered entrepreneurship, that revered all the things that made us great,” she added. “Whether you like it or not, it’s there.”

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The remarks came as CBS marked the 30th anniversary of her legendary courtroom show with the primetime special “Judge Judy: Unfiltered, Unforgettable.”

Sheindlin also said she believes many Americans are increasingly nostalgic for an era when manners, responsibility and basic respect carried more weight.

“I think in the middle of this country, there are more people who long for the 1950s than long for the 2030s,” she says. “They long for a time when people respected each other.”

She pointed to rising political hostility, cultural division and the inability of some families to even sit together without ideological fights breaking out.

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“You can’t pick up a paper without seeing [violence and hate speech and antisemitism] and racism and cruelty and beheadings,” she continues. “People can’t even get together with their families anymore, because you have one section of the family that is more liberal, one is more conservative. They can’t even talk to each other with civility.”

For Sheindlin, that desire for structure and accountability also helps explain why her television career lasted for decades.

“People are frustrated in the same way they were 30 years ago,” she recently told W Magazine. “They like rules, law, order, and personal responsibility.”

She said viewers still respond to a straightforward standard of behavior, especially when someone’s actions begin affecting everybody around them.

“They like their neighbors to be nice and quiet, to keep their cats on their own property,” she added. “There are reasons for bad behavior, but there are never excuses for bad behavior if it affects someone else.”

The original “Judge Judy” premiered in 1996 and ran for 25 seasons before ending in 2021.

Sheindlin later launched “Judy Justice,” which is set to wrap up in October.

Her son, Judge Adam Levy, is now carrying on the family courtroom tradition with his own series, “Adam’s Law,” with Sheindlin serving as a producer.

Sheindlin has said she plans to step away from appearing on camera, but she is not walking away from television entirely.

She intends to continue working behind the scenes, even as the no-nonsense style that made her famous remains very much intact.

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