The Fourth of July is meant to celebrate the struggle against tyranny, and unelected governments that do not have to answer to the citizens. Today we are getting very close to such a situation, with mindless bureaucrats and people without any sort of official position making decisions that effect everyone. Our nation is ripe for a Socialist dictator to seize power, by giving gullible people a false sense of hope that he will impose Marxist economic equality and ensure public security.
In many of my posts I discuss the destruction of American symbols as a concentrated and ongoing effort. In this article, we can see how the memory of Thomas Jefferson is dishonored by politically ambitious fools that can not see how their actions hurt our society. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, one of the greatest arguments for freedom ever produced. The arguments he made in that tremendous document are ignored and forgotten by a nation that no longer understands or appreciates what it means to be truly free.
"Indeed, it is painfully fitting that mere days before the nation prepared to celebrate its freedoms on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the City Council for Charlottesville, Virginia—the home of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration—voted to do away with a holiday to honor Jefferson’s birthday, because Jefferson, like many of his contemporaries, owned slaves. City councilors have opted instead to celebrate “Liberation and Freedom Day” in honor of slaves who were emancipated after the Civil War."