Happy Canada Day…and some early 4th of July Wishes

Happy Canada Day

To start out this post, I want to say Happy Canada Day to my neighbors to the North. I hope that it is a much nicer day there than it is here, and that all of your celebrations go the way you want them to.

God Bless America

I know that it is a few days early, but I want to wish all of my fellow Americans a Happy Independence Day, and maybe over the next year we will finally become a true democracy in all senses of the word. Maybe the new government will see fit to truly enfranchise the nation and do away with the Electoral College, for if it wasn’t for them we would probably be in a better place than we are today if they were not given the opportunity to overrule the popular vote in 2000. We would have the respect of the rest of the world–the respect that we had before Bush stole the election–and the respect of all Americans because we would deserve it. Maybe we will finally give equal rights to all citizens: men, women, gay, straight, black, white, yellow, purple…whatever and whoever we are. Someday the Declaration of Independence will mean the same thing to everyone:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

While those truths are self-evident, they are not nationally-evident. The people–the enlightened people–may know that everyone is equal, but until the government recognizes this fact we are not nor will we ever be a democracy. I love the US, but I think that it has not reached its full potential, the potential that the framers of the Constitution and the writers of the Declaration of Independence saw in 13 colonies that together changed the course of the British Empire.

With that hope–the hope of a bright future for the United States–”that government of the people, by the people, and for the people”–I pray that one day freedom in the US will really and truly be freedom.