Originally published at: https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/07/words-for-the-fourth-of-july/
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the…
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AND here we are again, being plunged into totalitarian darkness; where each of us,
like those in The Declaration above, needs to find the moral corage, to do what needs to be done.
Remember the famous Pastor? “First they took the Communists, but I was not a Communist.
So I said nothing. Then they took the” … He goes on to describe the “others”, as they went too.
AND finally, they came for him.
AND, there was no one to stand up for him.
Totalitarianism comes for EVERYONE!
EVERYONE NEEDS TO FIND THE COURAGE
To Oppose It!
Before, it too…
Becomes too late…
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Yes…here we are again…
Yes you should do what you must…
Yes everyone…must do what they must to oppose it,or we will witness the days,and years of the Empire,and tyranny and oppresion of the absolutist for the next let’say 20 years.
Don’t have to sweat the “You will die!”, part.
Jesus, has that part covered…
It Is FINISHED!
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Only tangential to the subject but to those that haven’t heard this song…you might give it a listen:
It’s a song about making peace with a (troubled) mother’s impending death from cancer.
Seems appropriate as the country we’ve known has been diseased for a great while now and
this author has no doubt we’re on our collective way out…
Incidentally, I read the full post with my son and went back and forth with him yesterday as to its
meanings and implications. It’s the kind of things they should teach in schools, yeah?
They gave us a Republic but we couldn’t keep it. Enjoyed some of the fireworks though.
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Thank you, Mohgarr, for a sobering alternative to all the cheering and partying.
I choose to believe we haven’t quite lost the Republic yet, though it certainly does look dark. I was watching a Tarot card reader yesterday and he was saying how bleak things look, and that some people are leaving the U.S. because they no longer feel they can live here.
But then he looked up with a little side eye and a bit of defiance, and said “but some of us think it’s worth it to stay here and fight.” I liked his spirit.
There is a traditional story I once heard from a Third World friend about a king who kept having misfortunes, but every time someone would say to him, “and now you’ve lost everything,” he would reply “maybe so, maybe not,” and every time in unpredictable ways, his misfortune would turn out to be what saved him in disguise. I thought about it many times over the years and realized it was a wisdom most people around me never considered…
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