We live in a time when our Founding is either taken for granted (it’s a day to picnic) or is degraded altogether.  Now popular is the notion that the Founding was in 1619 and the nation was born in the sin of slavery.  That is all that is important about our history, our failings.  That is not a particularly balanced view of either this country or the failings of the human condition.  It doesn’t matter as our failings are just fodder for the progressives’ attempt to divide our society along racial and sexual lines.

Lost on the latter school is that slavery was a universal institution and it was brought here by European powers and the African leaders involved in the trade.  Maybe one in ten African slaves made it to these shores with the overwhelming bulk going to Brazil and the sugar producing islands.  Funny, you don’t see Spaniards or Portugues consumed in guilt today.  Perhaps that is because the institution of slavery did not contradict their founding principles.

The Founders certainly understood the the contradiction between slavery and the notion of “all men are created equal”, but keeping the South in the War of Independence was a necessary expediency.  You have to win first before you can change the world. After all, you had 13 colonies, not particularly united, taking on the most powerful empire on earth.  Better stick together in the fight and sort out discrepancies and contradictions later.

After the Founding, steps were taken to end slavery but to be sure, it took much too long and should not have required a war.  America was always an experiment and we did not always get it right.  But that does not invalidate the principles themselves, it only demonstrates failure to embrace them.

However, it is interesting that those that complain most loudly about this failure to implement immediately and completely American ideals now attack those ideals more than they attack failures to implement them.  In fact, those most critical of America’s racial failings have long been supportive of racism as a public policy, as long as it is directed against “white people” and to some extent, Asians.

Progressives now embrace a racial spoils system, warmed over failed notions of socialism, and a belief in yielding our nationhood and sovereignty to unelected international organizations.  As a final touch, they believe in a revolutionary social order where Biblical tradition, on any control on the sexual appetites of people must be removed.  Whatever belief system they have, now seems more like a pre-Hebrew worship of the earth and flesh.  And, they wish to impose these beliefs on your children and grandchildren and will actively muzzle or cancel those who don’t agree.  Like elements of the French Revolution, it now appear to be not only a rejection of The Founding but a rejection of rationality itself.

Even after the most recent Supreme Court decision taking us back to the principle of a color blind society, universities are plotting ways to try to circumvent the ruling.  Many public statements by progressives suggest that without special treatment, they themselves are still peddling the noxious notion of the  natural inferiority of Blacks, that will keep them down unless white progressives are present to protect them.  Their only solution seems to be crude racial categorization that makes no logical  sense coupled with reverse discrimination against the majority “white”  and Asian population.

The recent Supreme Court decision, although somewhat limited to institutions of “higher ” learning, marks a welcome return to the principles of the Founding.  All people should be treated equally and there should be equal treatment under the law.

This ruling makes this particular July 4th somewhat special.

Progressives have also been busy attacking other principles of the Founding such as property rights, the right to free speech, the right to be free from warrantless searches, the right to bear arms, the right to assemble and travel, and religious liberties.

Indeed, the hatred of this  country oozing from our media and educational system is about as bad as the propaganda peddled by our external enemies.  This is even more ironic in that those hostile to American ideals are now largely in charge of our culture and politics.

That they have recently lost some major cases before the Supreme Court just enrages them more.  How dare a co-equal branch of government call the President on his unlawful student loan giveaway or tell Harvard their admissions politics are unconstitutional!

If you want to do something truly subversive this July 4th, be sure to put out the flag this year.  In fact, flying the flag all the time is now becoming a sign of resistance to the America haters.

Put the flag out for the 4th and keep it out for the duration of this struggle for the soul of America.  Remember to bring it in during bad weather, and if you leave it out at night it should be lighted. I just bought a solar powered spotlight for the flag, just for that purpose.

Flying the flag on the 4th of July was always a sign of solidarity with the Founding.  Now, due to the relentless culture war that we now find ourselves, this gesture is required every day.  So fly the flag this 4th, and everyday thereafter.