America the beautiful, America the deeply fucked up

here’s to you on this July 4th

248 years ago, a bunch of privileged rich white males who didn’t want to pay taxes founded America on a great set of ideals — freedom, equality and justice — and then went about implementing those ideals in the most fucked up way possible.

248 years later, we’re still fighting what often seems like a losing battle to guarantee everyone a share of freedom, equality and justice.

it’s exhausting, yet the struggle goes on.

never lose hope.

today, let’s rest. tomorrow, the fight continues.

here’s to you on this July 4th, America, you great big beautiful fucked up country.

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folks, a word on a different subject before I let you go: we’re doing some quarterly fundraising at my other venture, The Smirking Chimp. I’m leery of even mentioning it because if you’re one of the people paying to support my own writing here, you’re already doing god’s work and you’re already doing more than enough to help out. but if you’ve got five dollars that you absolutely wouldn’t miss and you do feel like supporting the Chimp, well, that just makes you twice the hero. the donation link is here, or you can go straight to paypal if you need no further convincing. and if you don’t care to donate, that’s totally cool, too, and we will not speak of this again. in fact, we never had this conversation. thanks for listening and that’s it from me for now.