We are less than a month away from the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence….a time when the nation should be proud of its history instead of trying to tear it apart…..but that thought is so yesterday.

As the nation approaches its 250th Anniversary, Americans should be entering a moment of pride, reckoning, and aspiration — honoring our founding ideals, confronting our injustices, and committing to a shared, inclusive future. But millions cannot reach that place. They are living in a country where the most basic democratic promise — that no one, not even the president, is above the law — is no longer true. And they are asking a question no democracy should ever force its people to ask: How do you confront injustice when leaders erase the history, hide the evidence, excuse the wrongdoing, and protect the perpetrators?

People are watching January 6 perpetrators not only be pardoned, but now discussed as victims deserving compensation — while others who committed far lesser offenses remain in prison. They are watching families who lost loved ones, officers who were attacked, and judges who were threatened receive no acknowledgment, while those who carried out the violence are elevated. They are watching Epstein victims still seeking closure while Maxwell lives comfortably. And they are watching Congress and the courts fail to check a president who intimidates, retaliates, enriches himself, and bends institutions to serve him.

This is not a moment of national pride. It is a moment of national disorientation. People are trying to live their lives, raise their families, and hold onto hope while watching the guardrails of democracy bend in plain sight. They see a president who rewards loyalty over law, who uses public office for personal gain, who threatens opponents, and who treats institutions as tools for retribution. They see leaders in Congress who enable it, courts that hesitate to confront it, and a political culture that shrugs at behavior that would once have ended careers.

Selective accountability. Truth rewritten. History sanitized. Wrongdoing reframed as patriotism. Victims forgotten. Perpetrators elevated. This is the opposite of the ideals the nation claims to honor.

Power corrupts — not only through threats and retaliation, but through the steady misuse of public authority for personal benefit. In this administration, corruption is carried out in public view: foreign payments and business entanglements that raise emoluments concerns, political loyalty rewarded with pardons, critics targeted with state power, and federal agencies pressured to serve the interests of one individual rather than the nation. This is what happens when power goes unchecked — when institutional guardrails are weakened, ignored, or deliberately dismantled, and the public is taught to expect impunity rather than accountability.

https://thefulcrum.us/democracy/january-6-pardons

There is nothing to be proud about in the displays of ignorance and ego feeding that Donny is calling the 250 anniversary celebrations.

It is a far cry from the 200th anniversary celebrations from 1976….

This anniversary will be remembered for the tacky and infantile displays from a president with the IQ of his shoe size.

It will be disappointing when it should be memorable.

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