Independence Day 2016 being celebrated (left) in Springfield, Pa. This part of the parade has just turned onto Springfield Road from Saxer Ave.
For those who don’t take seriously what the Fourth of July is about enlighten yourself.
It is unpleasant to be a serf. It is unpleasant to be a peasant. It is unpleasant to be a slave.
Granted slavery existed when the Declaration was signed but as someone famously noted it was basically gone four score and seven years later and its end came only because the foundation of our nation baldly stated that We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Understand that there are those who want to return us to serfdom where all economic decisions require permission from self-appointed elites, one’s speech most be constantly self-monitored least it offend them and one’s vote is meaningless.
Fight these people. We are actually obliged to do so.
For those wishing to get technical slavery’s official demise in the U.S.A. didn’t happen until four score and nine years after the Delcaration.