Why I’ll Celebrate The Fourth Of July Differently This Year

federalist.com ^ | July 3, 2015 | Luma Simms

[Morgana]

“In America, the streets are paved with gold. You can buy any fruit you want any time of the year without standing in line. You can be anything you want to be.” These were things my parents told me to lull me back into submission whenever I had reservations about coming to America. Even after we came, if I complained about living here, the response was: “Would you rather be back in Iraq where your dad would be forced to go to war, possibly get killed? Would you rather not have school options?”

The land of justice. The land where Christians don’t get hurt. The promised land. A land flowing with… everything supersize.

After the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, I’ve been ruminating over my naturalized home and wondering if there’s a way to give my children a better life, the way my parents assumed that coming to America would give me a better life. The morality of Obergefell is one issue. But beneath all that, what has deeply concerned me is the stark lawlessness of it all.

I learned to love this country after we immigrated here. I would get goosebumps and cry every time the “Star Spangled Banner” played. Eventually, I grew up and volunteered for the Republican Party. I joined a Republican Women’s club. I was part of the Federalist Society. I even went to law school for a while, intending to help return our constitutional jurisprudence to the original intent of America’s founders, using the natural-law philosophy our Founding Fathers were steeped in.

[tflabo]

The godless lieberals love the hell on earth they create but why not just move on crooked to their fatherland and be done with it? They would be welcomed with open horns down there. Leave the rest of us alone.

[joethedrummer]

Sums it all up perfectly. Quite sobering.

I had a neighbor who escaped Saddams Iraq to come here. She had been a political “enemy” of the State over there - imprisoned, raped and tortured. I remember her saying “thank God for George Bush”, going over there to free the people. For a few years, she was able to go see her parents there. I have moved, but I doubt she can do that anymore.

These LEGAL immigrants Love America and think we’re absolutely insane for allowing the corruption that happens -now openly in DC.

We are becoming what their home countries were when they left them. And we don’t even care.

[jsanders2001]

> We are becoming what their home countries were when they left them. And we don’t even care.

Oh we do care its just that the only real solution can’t be stated on here.

[kaehurowing]

I suppose tomorrow is the real day, but I’ve noticed everyone is basically down.

I am flying my Appeal to Heaven flag, but no one has put up the Stars and Stripes on the whole street.

[ex91B10]

“In America, the streets are paved with gold. You can buy any fruit you want any time of the year without standing in line. You can be anything you want to be.”

Micro something or another...

[steve86]

I’ve been ‘celebrating’ it differently since 1973.

I go down in my basement, pull the window covers down and try to ignore the noise.