In a country without any holidays, January through December, July 4th is included among Christmas and Mother's Day as a purely commercial days. The US being a commercial enterprise from its beginning has no holy, spiritual, or religious days and has thus become untethered from any meaningful human values.
This will make public services impossible.
Some 200+ years ago, the merchant businessmen of the day set the Reagan Revolution in motion by getting government off their collective backs. This is supposed to be heroic stuff if you follow the narrative-script written for us. These men are heroes, Founding Fathers, Framers, the master race.
Whether you are a Univ of Chicago laissez-faire economist nut or if you only follow the empty hype about freedom and liberty behind this barbecue day, I would suggest taking the red pill. See now? Those African slaves are not dancing and they were not born with slash marks on their bodies. A wife is not to her husband as a child is to its parent, as court decisions of the time determined allowing husbands - even ex-husbands! - to beat their wives. This is what freedom from British rule looks like.
Waiter: reality check, please.
King George III may or may not have been a tyrant. If one is looking for moral low-points, the directing his colonial governors to serve British interests and not give free reign to these new class merchants cannot be as low on the list as, say, the massacre of Indians tribes and land theft. George's sons were drunks and womanizers, producing scores of children by women they did not marry. His own granddaughter, Queen Victoria, thought better than her politicians and made an end-run to stop her government from recognizing the Confederacy.
So we have been faced with a is-it-Barabas-or-Jesus moment, and we have put our fate on the side of the mercantile death squads for whom any body that obstructs their thirst for profits must be a dead body. The use or abuse of any body for the furtherance of said profits is by definition moral and just. These are the heroes we not only put on our currency but are our currency.
Is this the foundation for any civilization?
The US neighbor to the north, Canada, had no colonial revolution, remained within the British empire, became liberalized somewhat in the 19th century, and today is an independent member of the Commonwealth with the British monarch as their titular head of state. The scourge of royal-appointed governors that our own colonial revolting merchants had a problem with? They still exist. Canada, Jamaica, Bermuda, Barbados, etc., have governors who act on behalf of the British queen. The current Canadian governor-general is a Black woman from Haiti. Canada has national health care.
Ronald Reagan didn't start the Reagan Revolution, but he accelerated it. Bill Clinton kept the pedal to the metal. Barack Obama continues to speed the getaway car.
It's those merchants and their merchant values, which if we had any eyesight we would see these values are blowing the brains and body parts off our young we send to secure market value in Iraq. Those merchants continue to run the country, turning humanity on its head, dropping napalm, nuclear bombs, and welcoming the transfer of billions of public dollars into their pockets while people live homeless, hungry.
It is time to re-think July 4. With all honor and remorse to the Jews, gypsies, and gays of mid-20th century Europe, July 4th should be renamed to National US Holocaust Memorial Day.
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