Independence Day seems a fitting time to take stock of how we’re doing as a nation.
It’s hard not to wonder what would have happened if the cast of characters we have sent to Washington to lead us today had been present in Philadelphia in July of 1776.
They would still be arguing about which truths were self-evident, whether the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness included abortion rights or gay marriage rights, and whether the 27 enumerated charges against the King of England should be expanded to include his failure to provide universal health care.
We may not be suffering today the “injuries and usurpations” of an “absolute tyranny,” although there are some people who feel that way, but we are enduring an era of reckless political gridlock where preserving the ideological purity of the left and right has taken precedence over the public good.
I don’t know about you, but what’s going on in Washington and in Sacramento seems un-American to me.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson disagreed about nearly everything. Even when they did agree on something like “all men are created equal,” they reserved the right to argue later about what they meant by that phrase.
Happy Fourth!
God bless America.
I give grateful thanks to our military men and women who served our ‘USA’ to preserve our freedom. A special salute, rememberance, and thanks to the Americans, who during World War ll, were sent to internment camps, and labled ‘enemy non-alien,’ because they were of Japanese descent. These strong, brave Japanese-Americans were eventually allowed to enlist in the armed forces. Many lost their lives in Italy, France and Normandy. As an elite group they risked their lives in the dark of night, climbing the face of a steep mountain to rescue a detail of Texan US soldiers who were pinned down by the Germans. A salute to these soldiers who fought with valor. Americans are not defined by race, but by your allegiance to the American Flag for which it stands. This story was told to us last night by actor George Takei, of T.V.’s Star Trek. Important to know history. But it seems our ‘antonio’ and city council are ungrateful to the fact that veteran soldiers who have fought to keep our USA free, is what gave these elected officials the opportunity to run for public office in a Republic, democratic society. Otherwise, they would find it an honor to serve the public, instead of themselves and their politically connected ‘millionaire’ supporters. God Bless America…….David Barron
It’s enough to make one’s blood run cold to think what today’s pols would have done if they had written the Declaration of Independence, just as it makes one’s blood boil to see how they’ve preverted the Declaration and the Constitution and meddle in every aspect of our lives.
We now look more like the Nanny States of America than the United States of America.