Independence Day 2023
The United States of America celebrates its independence today.
Mass shootings in malls, grocery stores, churches, banks, theaters, schools, on streets, baseball fields, town squares, the United States of America celebrates its strength today.
Supreme Court Justices shredding the Fourteenth Amendment, ripping apart color blind public accommodations that have always seen in public color, color blinding universities even as they strive to see in color, righteous miscreants mocking its courtrooms under the color of law, coloring libraries in beige, undermining medical science with colorless green ideas, gutting public schools to save them, the United States of America celebrates its future today.
Christians torching the freedom of religion, demanding the right to raise all of our children under the laws of their God, wrapping biology in superstition, claiming the right to define love, the United States of America celebrates its purity today.
Politicians taught to seek absolute power by elite professors, dichotomists splitting the baby, lawyers schooled in self-serving theories of jurisprudence, corporate CEOs earning royal fortunes in a single year, the United States of America celebrates its bootstraps today.
Brothers and sisters speaking to one another no more, neighbors wary of neighbors, lifelong friends estranged, aging classmates passing on reunions, the United States of America celebrates its cognitive capacity today.
As the United States celebrates its ambiguity, its strength, its future, its purity, its bootstraps, its cognitive capacity, all of which is in perpetual turmoil, a state of eternal turbulence, as we know, nothing is perfect. If you’re looking for perfection, you’re in the wrong universe. There is at least one reason to get out of bed and light a sparkler: Americans still have the right to vote—for now.
Enjoy the fireworks and the barbecue. Celebrate the ballot box.