Independence Day

I’m sorry.  I just don’t feel like celebrating.  What George Washington and Thomas Paine and and Ben Franklin and John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and the Boston Tea Party and Lafayette and the Green Mountain Boys snd the soldiers at Valley Forge fought for is under attack by an onslaught of greed and stupidity.  It feels to me like we are witnessing the end of the ideals and the wisdom of our forefathers.  All three branches of the government are in the control of charlatans.  The populace is full of MAGA clones who delight in cruelty and lack both empathy and support for democratic values.  To me it is more of a day of mourning than a day of celebration.  

Somehow we must rekindle that Spirit of ’76.  I’m not sure given the culture and climate in this country that is doable.  I know that I and many people around me will try.  The spark has not yet been extinguished.