The thing that bothers me about this year being special because of the Declaration of Infependence is that it anchors the identity of the residents of the United States to the American Revolution and the political class that came out of it on top

Setting aside the 300-odd years of fuckery in North America preceding the US Constitution…

[puffs cigar]

The idea that the US Government and the, for lack of a better term, American people are one and the same is a fiction that had for a long time served both well. Every day it becomes harder to ignore that the relationship has become much more unequal in whom it benefits