Fourth of July 2023 – Reject Despots and Their Institutions

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The Declaration of Independence was agreed upon today on the Fourth of July 1776 by the Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston comprised the Committee of Five that drafted our enduring manuscript of awakened American ideals. Jefferson, rightly regarded as the most eloquent writer, created what remains one of our core documents. It states that all of us equals could work at Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Today we remember 1776 when 13 colonies embarked on a notable experiment in self-governance as an independent, autonomous nation because the course of human events made it necessary to separate ourselves from our unjust rulers. That foundation led to an immense and thus far enduring enterprise in self-governance. The colonies had but 2.5 million people at that time of English and other ancestry. Small numbers in today’s world, but they were people with far bigger aspirations, following far, far larger ideas.

Some of us still aspire to uphold these ideals in our conduct. It’s the reason that the unthinkable happened in the late 18th century – a standing British army, the finest, best equipped the world had seen, was forced to surrender in the field for the first time in history to a mere group of badly trained state militias and the rag-tag Continental Army.

Unthinkable.

But the ideas they were fighting for were bigger than the despots, Redcoats, Hessians and other mercenaries. We overcame oppression against the odds.

Some – but not enough of us in our view – are marching once again with the spirit of 1776. We need once again to rid ourselves of what has evolved into a ruling class of our own home-grown tyrants, bigots, book burners, racists and traitors who collude with other oppressive, anti-American governments as they try to import the oppression here. We have progressed from 2.5 million people to more than 330 million with a gross domestic product of more than $25 trillion – an unimaginable number of  figurative teabags for a protest not to clutter Boston Harbor, but the sullied Halls of Congress today.

Today we note the resounding words of our Constitution’s preamble – WE THE PEOPLE. Therefore, WE now need to toss out of office or impeach the politicians who don’t understand, reject, indeed mock, WE.