Happy Fourth of July and for the USAians around here happy high holy holiday. (If you don't read my fiction, don't worry about it.) May you live in Freedom and see the Republic restored.a
Yes, we are in trouble and no mistake (That squirrel looks a bit rough, don't he?)
I'm not going to lie to you and say the Republic isn't under a shadow. But it's it's been under a heavy shadow for four years, and in serious peril for longer than that.
I don't say there isn't a serious danger of our ending wrong, but that danger has been there from the beginning. And it's been a serious serious problem since the early twentieth century with increasing centralization of power, and the increasing restrictions on the individual's Constitution-given rights.
There is no point at all to writing our obituary now. This would be like writing your obituary every time you have pneumonia. Okay, for normal people, every time you have a bad cold. Sure, it could kill you. But why assume the ending?
Worse, it's like writing your obituary when you're starting to recover. Sure, when your immune system starts fighting it, it seems much worse for a while, and everything looks and feels much much more grave. But before you dig that grave, stop and consider.
We had a serious setback on censorship, sure, though you know what? According to lawyers I know that was a procedural one, and basically the court being wussies. There is a chance still to row that one back. The rest are good news and Chevron VERY good news.
And there's an election coming. Yeah, they'll probably cheat their way in again, but the PLAUSIBILITY of it is diminishing by the moment.
The ending is not written. Sure, it's forecast. But it's been forecast from the day after America was born, because we are such a weird and revolutionary concept.
A nation, conceived in Liberty, where the king is its people.
It couldn't be. It must perish. But we haven't perished. And we're still here, and still fighting.
Yes, our king, as the king of legends, has been asleep and lost. But the time has come, the king is awake and moving. And fighting back.
Happy independence day, fellow revolutionaries. Stay free.
(And keep your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.)
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