Mourning the Fourth of July.

 

I cannot celebrate the 4th of July marking the Declaration of Independence. It began as a noble experiment in self-governing. There were hiccups at first as the original states bickered. Rules were unclear until a Constitution was written and signed in 1789. It wasn't perfect either, but it gave guidelines that worked more than they didn't for a majority of the people. 

It's over. What is good has been undermined by the Supreme Court and greedy men who are turning the government from a "we" government into a "me" government that excels in cruelty and greed. The actions of Congress in passing the Big Beautiful Bill have set fire to the U.S. 

Jaime Raskin said it best. 

“We the billionaires, and our King, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people’s defenses, undermine the general welfare and reserve for ourselves and our posterity staggering debt servitude for eternity, do hereby instruct the Republicans in Congress to strip 17 million people of their health care, increase copays, deductibles and premiums for everyone else, cut 42 million people off nutritional assistance, increase the national debt by $4 trillion, trash renewable energy systems, increase our electric bills for the carbon kings, all to weaken and destroy the Constitution of the people of these United States of America.”

 

That is nothing to celebrate but to mourn. I mourn the death of my birth country even though its name will go on and its existence will damage the lives of billions of people not just in the U.S. but around the planet.