Happy Birthday USA: This 4th of July, celebrate the Nation, not the Notion
Happy Birthday United States of America. This fourth of July we will be celebrating the birth of our country as we have every year since 1776.
It's true our nation has fallen far from the great dream our Founding Fathers gave us. Greed, corruption, Socialism among the richest men in the nation while the rest of us struggle to keep our heads above water.
I personally will not be celebrating the 4th this year. I know that this is a radical outlook that many people will call unpatriotic, will not agree with and probably even rail against. But when I think back on what the nation was compared to what it's become I can't help thinking that out there somewhere the nation's Ben Bernenkes, Karl Roves, George Soroses, Ken Lays, Tom DeLays and George W. Bushes are celebrating too- celebrating the only nation on earth corrupt enough to let them run the massive rackets that have gotten them ahead-corruption they have bred.
Now, I'm not calling on readers to forgo their celebrations this year. This is an austere view that I impose on myself but no one else. However, this year when you celebrate at the lake, or in the park, or the stadium or even in your own back yard I ask you to remember with single-minded fervor what the nation was. Celebrate our best years. Don't celebrate subprime mortgages. Don't celebrate corrupt leaders. Try basing your celebrations around themes that the Founders of the nation would approve of.
Above all I ask you to boycott all things corporate and conservative. When you buy your baby back ribs for the barbecue shop with a store that you know isn't owned by a conservative oligarch. Watch television from stations that you know aren't dominated by Right-Wing lunatics. In short I'm asking you to eschew anything that gives power to the ones that have turned the American Dream into an American Nightmare.
Just a bit of food for thought.
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