On This 4th Of July

"About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."

Calvin Coolidge.

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Morale is low in America at the moment.

Not because of Trump.

But by the relentless attack on its identity from the left.

So palpable and pathetic, they've taken to claiming celebrating the 4th is 'white supremacy' and needs to be 'reconsidered'.

A complete destruction of the American experience is being attempted.

Media and academia have joined hands with the Democrat party (just go look at their Tweets) to conspire agains this great nation they call the United States of America. They no longer talk about moving a nation forward. They instead want to tear it down and apart without a plan or thought.

'Dark and divisive' is how they characterized a President's speech for merely standing up for his country. Hong Kong protestors, in a futile but honorable fight to be remembered by all liberty minded individuals for posterity, waved American flags while pampered rioters wave the CCCP flag in America.

This is where we are at this junction.

Flawed and imperfect she may be, still she towers above all else.

America. Stand up for your country.

Celebrate with honour and pride.

Aaron Copland is the quintessential sound of Americana in my view.