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Why America's 250th Birthday Feels More Like a Funeral
F*ck the fireworks and flip the flags.
For actual patriotic Americans, this July 4th 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 independence has 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 mortified that no matter how it happened, Democracy has all but died on our watch here…
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