"Independence Day doesn’t commemorate a battle or a war. It commemorates the day a bunch of politicians clicked “Like” on a 1,300-word missive by a radical public intellectual. July 4, 1776, was a thinking, talking, and writing day, not a fighting day. It’s not the day we won the battle for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It’s the day a clutch of influential people agreed these were good ideas; the day they decided Americans should be citizens instead of subjects."
— From my latest piece “The Declaration of Independence Day” in Creative Loafing. http://clatl.com/atlanta/the-declaration-of-independence-day/Content?oid=5696723 (via andishehnouraee)
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