I want to celebrate Independence Day, but anymore it feels like a memorial service rather than a real celebration. It's like gathering around an autopsy for a cookout.
The United States government is much, MUCH worse than the British government was in 1776. Worse than that ambitious government ever dreamed of being. With higher taxes, more meddling, and more presence. Greater evil.
Most “patriots” pretend otherwise.
I get it. People want to celebrate, and they want to ignore unpleasant realities. They resent those who have a realistic understanding of the situation.
And the Declaration of Independence is celebration-worthy. If only they had meant it. The Constitution showed that they didn't. They wanted a State to sit on the world stage more than they valued independence and loved liberty. "Everyone else is doing it!" So that's what they got. That's what they saddled us with. And it has metastasized into this global Empire we see all around us today.
Make a "patriot" comfortable. Forget independence. "Happy Fourth."
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I like your analogy of a cookout at an autopsy.
ReplyDeleteWhile I suspect you will dislike the scriptural reference, one of my last posts on NCRenegade took a similar poke at the conversion of the new united States into the "more perfect union".
Sometimes I sits and thinks; other times I just sits …
Posted on November 26, 2022 by Hans
I believe there is a parallel between the system of justice of the Hebrew Judges and the English and American colonial courts of Common Law.
And I see a further parallel in the way both peoples turned to embrace the false god of a nation state.
Let us examine 1 Samuel 8:1-20 … with some minor edits for relevance to colonial America.
And it was, when Jefferson had grown old…
He was surrounded by others …
His successors did not walk in his ways, and they turned after gain, and they took bribes and perverted justice.
And the elites of the colonies gathered …
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The essay is not long and may be read at:
https://ncrenegade.com/sometimes-i-sits-and-thinks-other-times-i-just-sits/
Happy 4th ... Hans, in the NC Woods