re: #113 HappyWarrior

I remember when Obama slipping up mid campaign saying 57 states was somehow proof Obama was this outsider who was ignorant about our country. Trump? Gets a prepared speech on 4th of July wrong about our nation’s founding. And yes I could go without the militarism too. I appreciate our vets. I’m even named for one but America is more than our military. It’s our people- music, film, literature, sports, scientific and technological advances, among other things too.

He got crap for using a teleprompter.

And yes, Independence Day should be about everything but the military. It’s about an idea set forth in the Declaration of Independence which we still fall short of achieving but continue to strive for, that all persons are created equal and government exists by the consent of the governed.

In no place in that document is a military mentioned at all.