Independence Day

Just a quick note to remember those brave men and women back in 1776 who decided that being yoked to England was no longer a beneficial arrangement. The notion that people could govern themselves was a very new one and actually, the Founding Fathers had their own reservations about the actual "people" governing in totality, which is why we have the Electoral College, and why we are actually a Republic which happens to have a democracy. We are a very interesting experiment.

Notoriously, we swing back and forth between extremes of so-called liberalism and so-called conservatism. The United States will stay self-contained; no, the United States will try to police the world; and back and forth we go. We will be hard workers with solid ethics. No, we will rebel, tune in, tune out, drop out - change the world. On second thought, let's all make a lot of money. The tide is turning again, my blog reader. The yoke has been tightened just a little too tightly on our freedoms. The transparency of wealth and power buying of justice is too clear to ignore.

It is no longer a beneficial arrangement, President Bush. You might do well to remember the lessons of Independence Day and the arrogance of another man named George, King George III.