A Melancholy Fourth

Posted: July 4, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Today is the 4th of July and normally I would just post the Declaration of Independence and forget the blog.

But today’s 4th is a tad melancholy. My oldest has been sick for a week and it falls on my wife’s day to work this week and nurses, like firemen and police don’t get the day off.

But that’s not what makes this melancholy to me. What makes it melancholy is the idea that so many Americans are completely unfazed by the idea that whoever is running the country and making decisions, it’s not the person who was “elected” to do it.

I put quotes around “elected” and that’s slightly unfair, Joe Biden was elected president as sure as the Cincinnati Reds won the 1919 world series.

But whatever your opinion of that last statement it’s very clear now that not only isn’t he running the country but he hasn’t for some time, but the left doesn’t mind.

Run that through your head on this Fourth of July. A large group of Americans are unbothered that they have no actual idea who is running this land and is unbothered that said person or people are unaccountable for their actions, even to them.

I think Sarah Hoyt expressed it best:

We all want to go back to a place where we could believe the journalists, the teachers, the professors, the scientists. The difference is some of us know it hasn’t existed for our whole lifetimes and longer. It’s just now we can see the lies.

It’s very uncomfortable, this place where conspiracy theories become admitted truth two days later, and nothing stands between us and the howling abyss of finding all the truth ourselves. And of knowing how badly we were always lied to.

But it’s also the way to freedom. You know the whole “the truth will set you free?” It’s not that so much as the fact that lies bind you.

But in the end there are a lot of people who want to be bound, who don’t want to see what is right in front of them because the moment they do they have to make a choice. Ignorance removes responsibility and this is willful ignorance because seeing the situation in the light of truth is more painful to them then admitting they’ve been played.

It’s the very reason why so many people choose the torments of hell.

As I’ve said we always get the government we deserve, I had hoped we deserved better but as the 4th dawns I’m convinced that as of this moment, we don’t.

Hopefully that will shortly change.

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