4th of July. 249 years passed.
There’s no reason to celebrate this year. The specter of next year’s 250th anniversary looms large over the horizon. What have we become…
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” These words have been eroding from Lady Liberty’s stone for longer than we care to admit, and now that they’ve almost faded away we can read them clearer than ever. Like we feel the presence of a loved one after he or she is gone. Will we see the meaning of Emma Lazarus’ words restored in our lifetime? Who knows…
“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.”
The most powerful and beautiful words in our Declaration of Independence ring desperately today, for they seem no longer to apply to this once great nation: great in its pursuit of happiness, not in happiness itself. The misinterpretation of the American Dream haunts us.
It was never about being happy at all costs. It was about pursuing happiness against all odds, in an imperfect union meant to become more perfect by the actions of the many and the few chosen by them. Greatness is to be achieved in this pursuit, not in the illusion of an arrival to such an impossible destination. The United States of America were never great, but they were the greatest in such an endeavor: progress, evolution, possibility. It’s all gone. We’re stagnant.
“We the people.” The Constitution leaves no room for doubt as to what Tocqueville witnessed first hand: we were always meant to be a Democracy. Those three simple words define it from the start of our foundation in the rule of law itself. For there is no Democracy without law and no people can govern outside of it. In its stead the words “We the Monarch” seem more appropriate. Or, to be exact, “We the Dictator”. This Independence Day we observe the end of Democracy.
As the aberration known as “Big Beautiful Bill” passed the hurdles of Congress and is signed into law myself and millions of Americans are bracing for impact; expected after the 2026 midterms, because the fascist party knows not to hit us with it before that. My family will be among the most affected and we are afraid for the future. How long we can survive has become the most important question. Others will experience the devastation before us. Those disappearing from life as we speak.
We live in a fascist state where the same troops that liberated concentration camps in Europe in 1945 are now mobilized to guard them on our soil. Where 10,000 goons are about to be hired to reinforce a secret police meant for more than catching criminals. A fascist state where this secret police will have unlimited power to remove any one of us from society and life itself. A fascist state where due process is dead. Where the law is drawn by one man’s pen. “We the Dictator.”
This Independence Day is held upon all these abominations meant to destroy freedom in all its forms. The next steps were foretold in the fascist manifesto we all got the chance to read before hand: Project 2025. The next steps will ensure fascism endures by denying us the right to vote freely. What forms these steps will take are becoming clear as what is left of our Judicial system is hard at work to dismantle every part of our electoral system that allows for free and fair elections.
Will the 2026 midterm elections be held with these measures in place? Will they be postponed by the stroke of a pen until they are, as it happened already in Miami. It’s no longer a remote possibility but a certainty. The rule of law is not just dying; it’s committing suicide before our eyes. While the establishment seeks to preserve the fascist dictator through his own Justice Department, the remaining judiciary looking to obstruct and resist is left with inconsequential rulings.
As Emil Bove put it: “Fuck the courts.” He knows they have no power left, for the enforcement of the law is in the hands of those needing the law enforced upon them. Fascism regards only its own directions and writes the law to fit them, while designating unlawful any legal action or concept that goes against it. In this new order, Congress is powerless by advancing obedience while fascists control both chambers of legislature and oversight.
We are left with record breaking speeches and cosmetic changes that do nothing to stop the march towards fascism as its boots already walk over Congress with little resistance. It will soon, like the Courts, find out there’s nothing to be done except raise awareness and try to delay the seemingly inevitable disaster. What is the point of these fights in Congress and in the Courts? Only one: to buy us some time. We have been for years the ONLY ones capable of standing up for Democracy.
There’s no time to waste (as if there ever was) waiting for elections that may never come. A lot needs to happen right now, before 2026. It’s up to us alone. Congress and the Courts can only buy us some time. The question is: what are we going to do with it?
This Independence Day is a good day to think about that. And do something.
The fight is on.
