
Our Independence Day
On this day, July 4th, we Americans celebrate the birth of our independence. It is a day of celebration and excess of all things Americana. It's fireworks, hot dogs, baseball and apple pie. It's a day when we gloss over all the ugly trials and tribulations that have plagued us, lo these 240 some odd years. Instead, we don ourselves in the colors of our beloved flag and we embrace the amazing experiment that has birthed the greatest nation the world has ever known. Some of us, though, celebrate a new kind of independence. We now feel unencumbered by the rigid, patronizing glare of the aristocratic and self-loathing liberals who deny America's exceptionalism. What they fail to grasp is that on November 8th, 2016, we were freed from this pall…