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Born on The Farce of July
F*ck the fireworks and flip the flags.
For actual patriotic Americans, this isn’t a party, it’s a funeral.
There is nothing to celebrate here.
We shouldn't be singing right now; we should be grieving.We should be sitting vigil for the country we could have had but may never see.We should be mourning over how little of our aspirations of Independence have trickled down to the people in the streets.We should be lamenting how commonplace hatred has become in this supposed "sweet land of Liberty."
Most of all, we should be embarrassed… no, mortified, that no matter how it happened, Democracy has…
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