So many people in the U.S. today think that our political differences and the way we talk about them have gotten so bad that our democracy is in danger. What they don’t realize is that our political differences have always seemed insurmountable, and our democracy has never been easy.
In July 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed, there were disagreements, debates, compromises, and moral courage. It tells the story of a group of rebellious Englishmen who, despite their many differences, all wanted to be free.
On July 4, Americans usually think about what 1776 means and how it still applies today. Independence Day in 2020 will definitely feel different. In the last month, Americans have seen their cities destroyed and their history erased.
It seems likely that Antifa and the other anarcho-socialist SJWs will show up on July 4 after all the statues and memorials have been taken down. By this time next year, Independence Day could be a national day of mourning, a day when we break away from America’s bad past. The goal of the new Vandals is to cure us of “memory sickness,” which is what the Khmer Rouge called it.
In these hard times, it’s important for Americans to understand, defend, and bring back the values that this country was built on. It may be even more important that we remember what the Patriots did to protect these ideas.
Consider the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds that have bound them to another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
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