Given the Democrat penchant for lying about almost everything, it’s not often that I get to say they kept a promise.  I understand why Democrats lie so much.  On the one hand, they represent a Party who’s last president was a brain-dead imbecile, who allowed millions of illegal aliens, including hundreds of thousands of violent criminals, lunatics, potential terrorists, and fraudsters into the country without any vetting, botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and ruined the economy, the truth is unpleasant.

Add to this, the facts that Democrats have no real policies to advance, every one of them voted against the Trump tax cuts, they’re itching to raise taxes by $5 trillion, and they’re being taken over by Communists, and speaking the truth just becomes that much more problematical.

Then of course, there’s the reality that they know they don’t have to tell the truth, because the media will swear to whatever lie they tell, and bury the truth by not reporting the facts.  Under those circumstances, they would be foolish to tell the truth.

However, today I can report that Democrats have kept a promise.  You will recall that, although they regularly outspend Republicans at least two to one, Democrats keep promising to “get the money out of politics.”  And now they’ve done it.  They’re going broke.

Reports this week are that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has run out of money.   While the rival RNC is sitting on cash in excess of $128 million, the DNC is a few million dollars in the red – $16 million cash, and over $18 million in unpaid bills.

It’s gotten so bad that the DNC had to mortgage their headquarters building in Washington for a $15 million loan to keep themselves afloat.  They’re still spending money, have to pay staff and such, but they’ve stopped sending money to the Congressional campaign committees.  Oh, and they’re not paying paying vendors who do work for the DNC.  They’ve asked vendors not to send the bills until after the November elections.   I guess they learned that from Il Duce Obama, who stiffed contractors who built his mausoleum, excuse me, library.  That attitude is classic Democrat Party fare.  Tell the voters you’re better at handling the economy, but don’t let them find out you’re really in hock up to your eyeballs until after they vote.

Where did all the money go?  Well, the DNC had a bad time with the 2024 election.  First Sleepy Joe, and then Scamola Harris.  It seems Harris managed to blow $1 billion in 100 days, and she still left the DNC with a $15 million bill for her campaign.  As you may have noticed, Democrats are not very good at money management.  For example, in the last year, the DNC has spent about $850,000 to fund Democrat Party efforts in non-voting territories – Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  None of these places has anything to do with the upcoming midterm elections.

And then there’s the fundraising problem.  After the 2024 debacle, many of their largest donors have stopped giving to the DNC, unhappy with “the Party’s direction.”  This is not surprising, since the Party’s direction seems to be leaning toward revolution and Communism.  I guess they found out most billionaires are not Communists.

It seems that many donors see the DNC as rudderless, off message and leaderless.  The DNC is trying to put a good face on it though.  A former DNC Director has said, “Rebuilding a party is hard — rebuilding relationships and programs take time and will require all hands on deck to meet this moment.”

All hands on deck?  What an apt analogy for the Democrats.  Maybe they can do another remake of Mutiny on the Bounty.  They could call it Mutiny on the Party, brought to you by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).  The only problem is the DSA isn’t sailing in the South Pacific.  It wants to sail the ship of State to Cuba, and bring its government here.  Also, they couldn’t have a Mr. Christian character.  Too religious for Democrats.  It would have to be, Mr./ Ms./They/Them Atheist.

When you think about it, after the mainstream Democrats embraced the DSA, handing wild-eyed Marxists the reins of the Party, it’s no wonder that fundraising is way down.  After all, the DSA keeps telling everybody that, when they’re in charge, everything will be free.  If they don’t have to pay for rent, or school, or health care, and they get free buses and government run grocery stores, why should they give money to politicians?  Campaigning should be free too, right?

Things are getting rather tense at the DNC these days.  DNC Chairman Ken Martin is having a hard time.  Democrats complain that Martin isn’t telling them the truth about the DNC’s financial problems.  Staffers have been required to sign non-disclosure agreements preventing them from discussing financial matters.  It’s affecting Martin’s  conduct.

DNC sources say, “He’s been super paranoid,”  “He’s super embattled, ”“He’s not in a great place at all.”   Some are worried about his recent behavior.  There’s tell of an incident in which an enraged Martin screamed at and threw a telephone at a staffer.  DNC insiders reported that he got angry and threw his phone in the direction of his aide, though it did not hit the staffer.  The incident left a small group of aides who were present shaken and resulted in a human resources inquiry.  Wouldn’t you know it?  A woosy move from a woosy Party.

The DNC is a hostile workplace?  Staffers are traumatized?  Oh, I hope they brought in psychological counselors to treat the poor snowflakes.  Boy, they’re not making Democrats like they used to.  Politics is a blood sport.  LBJ said politics isn’t war by other means, it is war.  And LBJ was not a kindly employer.  Bill Moyers said, as a boss, LBJ was a cross between Mr. Dithers and Caligula.

The DNC money troubles were compounded by a recent Supreme Court decision, that allows the national Committees to send unlimited amounts of money to candidates in competitive Congressional districts.  With control of the House turning on fewer than 20 races, this decision could give Republicans an advantage.  Democrats complain that the Court has given the GOP an unfair advantage.  This is a curious complaint as it comes from a Party that took political contributions from foreigners, and who want foreigners to be able to vote, but Democrats would stand for nothing if they didn’t stand for hypocrisy.

Ken Martin has little time to right his ship.

I make my living by reading, interpreting, and writing words.  That’s probably why I’m more sensitive than most to labels people use to describe themselves.  For that reason, I’ve long been troubled by the use of the term “progressive” by left wing politicians.  They say they’re progressive, but exactly what does that mean?

Progressive has many definitions.  I used to wear progressive eyeglasses.  They had three sections for close, medium, and long range sight.  In other words, they changed under different circumstances.  But that’s not right, because progressive politicians never change.

Another definition is “moving forward,” but that can’t be right either.  If you’re moving forward, you’re making things better, and I see no evidence of betterment coming from so-called progressives.

In the political setting, progressive is defined as supporting new or modern ideas, social progress, and more government action.  Most people who consider themselves progressive would sign on to this definition, but it likewise cannot withstand scrutiny.

The ideas being pushed by progressives are neither new nor modern.  Socialism and Communism have been around a long time.  As for the goals of economic and social equality, progress and government control, these also aren’t new or modern, actually they’re ancient.  Aspirations for the creation of the perfect society go back more than 2,000 years.

Plato’s Republic envisioned a model society ruled by philosopher kings.  You’ve seen our politicians, and the U.S. variety are better than most.  They’re hardly philosophers, and progressives don’t like Kings.  Sir Thomas More also wrote of Utopia, as a far away island, with no private property, free education, and few laws to bind its moral residents.  Marx and Engels seized on More’s “no private property” theme to push their “Socialist Utopia,” where the workers ruled.  We all know how that turned out.

If you’re getting the impression that the perfect society doesn’t exist, you’re right.  There is no Utopia, as the name itself denotes.  Utopia comes from the Greek, ou topos, which literally means “nowhere.”  But we can dream, can’t we?

The problem with progressives, however, isn’t that their dreams don’t come true, but that most of them have come true, to ill effect.  Progressives advocate for more government control and more social programs, but they ignore reality.  We already spend trillions on social programs, and government regulation is choking off economic progress and personal liberty.

U.S. Governments spend more on education than anywhere in the world, with poor results.  Chicago doubled education spending over 12 years.  The result – reading scores went down 63% and math down 78%.  More government is not the answer.

Progressives act as though the New Deal never happened and the social safety net doesn’t exist.  They actually are dedicated to moving forward, but forward to where?  A hundred years ago, labor unions clamored for “More, and more, and now.”  That made sense when workers lived in poverty, at the mercy of company stores, and toiled long hours under unsafe conditions, for meager pay.  Government programs alleviated the worse abuses, but the message hasn’t changed.  It’s still, “more and more,” regardless of the circumstances.  The musician’s union put the New York City Opera out of business because there was no “more.”  The Metropolitan Opera may be next.

Progressives celebrated the enactment of $25 and $30 an hour minimum wage laws.  But their “victory” only put low income people out of work, either replaced by machines, or by the folding of small businesses.  That’s partly why fast food prices have more than doubled in recent years.  A McDonald’s quarter pounder meal that was $5.39 in 2014 is now $14.59.  That’s real progress.

The problem is that progressives can’t quit while they’re ahead.  Progress is “moving forward”, but they’re moving forward toward a cliff, and they show no signs of slowing down.  If anything, they’re moving faster toward destruction.  And since they tolerate no dissent, there is no one on the Democrat side of the aisle who can make a plea for common sense.

In the name of progressiveism, they don’t want to prosecute crimes.  They have prosecutors who have no regard for public safety, letting criminals run free.  If anything, progressives have more regard for illegal alien criminals than for home grown ones.  In truth, they have more regard for illegal alien criminals than for their U.S. citizen victims.

They don’t want aliens deported, prosecuted, or restricted in any way.  When they do get caught, States shield the criminal aliens from ICE enforcement, preferring to release dangerous predators back onto their streets, rather than see federal law enforced.  Last week, idiot Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota pardoned an illegal alien, who was convicted of raping a 10 year old girl over a period of two years.  Walz said the criminal just had a bad day.  When ICE arrested and deported the fiend, Walz doubted that his removal made anyone safer.  And they call that progress.

The government recently exposed serious breaches in our election systems, including foreign interference, and misfeasance or neglect that keeps hundreds of thousands of dead people, nonresidents, and non-citizens on the voter rolls.  The Governor of New Jersey said two contradictory things: Trump has no credibility on this issue; and Yes, we do have 6,600 non-citizens on the voter rolls.  She says it’s not a big problem though, as there’s no evidence of mass voter fraud – yet.

This is absurd.  It’s the equivalent of saying, we know the children are playing with matches, but they haven’t burned the house down yet, so why take action? Illegal voters on the rolls isn’t a glitch or a mistake by progressives, it’s a strategy and an opportunity.

Our government has uncovered billions of dollars of fraud, waste and abuse in social spending programs.  Recently, it was revealed that $100 million was being paid to dead people, and welfare program fraud is rampant, costing us billions.  Yet, as the nation sinks deeper under trillions of dollars of debt, progressives oppose investigating and ending fraud, probably because their utopian house of cards is built on, and relies on fraud.

Progressives have no regard for public safety, for public finances, or for voter integrity, yet they tell us they’re “saving our democracy.”  That’s either fantasy or a bald-faced lie, as only a madman could fail to realize they are leading us toward destruction.  The problem is, they don’t care about your life, or any life, for that matter.  They follow Stalin’s maxim that, “one death is a tragedy, a million deaths only a statistic.”

Today’s progressives have become a death cult, either killing its detractors, or at least wishing them dead.  The killings of Charlie Kirk and the Health care CEO in New York were hailed by progressives as victories for their perverted cause of progress.  Progressives have greeted the multiple attempts on President Trump’s life with regret that the assassins missed.  Online progressive posters have called for the murders of people like J.K.Rowling and Elon Musk.

We used to say, “don’t speak ill of the dead” but progressives can’t even manage that.  After Lyndsay Graham died, there were posts of “good riddance.”  Last week, conservative British politician Anne Widdecombe was murdered in her home.  A progressive “environmental activist” went on TV to say, “There are a lot of people who won’t be grieving.”

Wall Street Journal columnist Louise Perry writes that instances of reviling and desecrating the dead are more prevalent in unstable revolutionary societies, noting that such things happened during the French Revolution.  This makes sense, as progressives have proven themselves to be both unstable and revolutionary.  I’m torn between the contentment of watching the Democrats destroy themselves over their progressive mania, and the fear that they will do unspeakable damage to our Republic.  We live in perilous times.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s an ongoing Communist plot to overthrow our form of government.  Communists, posing under the guise of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), are engineering a hostile takeover of the Democrat Party.  One by one, mostly in deep Blue Congressional Districts, DSA candidates are ousting incumbent Democrats.

It began eight years ago, when AOC ousted long-time incumbent Joe Crowley in New York City.  She started what became known as The Squad, a collection of Commie rabble rousers such as, Ilhan Omar (MN), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Pramila Jayapal (WA), and Rashida Tlaib (MI), as well as others.

The Squad gained power during the nation-wide 2020 George Floyd riots.  Squad members advocated for the violence that left scores of downtown businesses torched or looted, while police stations and other government buildings were attacked.

Squad members wielded power in a fashion that would have made Hitler’s Nazi Brown Shirts proud.  While they made speeches about ending fascism and preserving democracy, they used the hooded bastards of Antifa to hurl rocks, start fires, and beat any and all dissenters, as well as journalists, with clubs.

The Squad had seven members for several years, but new recruits are being added.  Here in New Jersey, my Congressional District, not long ago, was represented by Rodney Frelinghuysen, a moderate Republican, who had ancestors who were in the Continental Congress, and fought in the Revolution.  Four Frelinghuysens were U.S. Senators, and one was a Secretary of State.

Rodney Frelinghuysen retired, to be replaced by Mikie Sherrill, a fake moderate Democrat.  When she was elected Governor, she was replaced by a Communist.  A doctor linked to Al-Qaeda is the Democrat running in the 12th District.  As these districts don’t have real general elections, the Communist and the terrorist sympathizer will be elected.

This primary season saw other DSA members ousting long-time incumbents in New York and Colorado, where a 30 year veteran lost her primary to a DSA upstart.

At first, these denizens of the DSA were considered to be political oddities.  Then, the tendency was to conclude that, because they were representing districts traditionally held by liberal Democrats, no big changes were afoot.  One Democrat was just as useful to the Party as another Democrat, right?  Wrong!

The Democrat Party of Nancy Pelosi gained and kept power by enforcing iron-clad discipline on its members.  You either voted the Party line along with Nancy, or she’d cut your throat – politically.  Early attempts by DSA to gain influence in Congress were thwarted by Nancy, for instance, when she denied AOC a leadership position.  But Socialist/Communists are persistent.

As incumbent Democrats continued to be defeated by upstart revolutionaries, the Democrat Party was pulled inexorably to the Left – by fear.  Incumbent Democrats, liberal though they may have been, began to parrot the DSA line in attempts to avoid being the next sacrifice.  Their choice was either cow tow to the Communists or risk being primaried and losing your seat.  I don’t for a moment believe that all the Democrats in Congress, distasteful as they may be, support the wild-eyed radical positions advanced by the DSA.

They just didn’t have the courage to resist this intrusion into their Party.  As I recently noted, 25% of Democrats aren’t proud to be Americans, and these are the 25% who regularly turn out to vote in Democrat primaries; fodder for the DSA line.  So old-time Democrats went along with the DSA rhetoric, hoping they’d mellow or just go away.  But they didn’t.  As Winston Churchill once observed, an appeaser is one who keeps feeding a crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last.

Now, spewing the DSA talking points may be popular with the 25% nutty base, and may do no harm to the Party in the deep Blue House districts, but it’s not a helpful means of convincing American voters to support Democrats in national elections.  And therein lies the rub.

Democrats are caught between having to mollify the 25% by parroting the anti-capitalist, truly Marxist DSA line, and trying to keep Democrat voters outside deep Blue districts from bolting the Party.  That battle rages to this day.  Democrats follow the principle that “you must fool 51% of the people every four years by claiming to be moderate.”  But try as it might, the Democrat leadership cannot get the DSA nuts even to pretend to be anything other than what they are – Communists.  The DSA is in full revolt against the Democrat leaders.

So, instead of stamping out the DSA threat to the usual Democrat line of electoral bullshit, Democrats are pretending to welcome them to their cause, uniformly saying that they “have a big tent” to accommodate all factions.  In a way it’s Nancy Pelosi’s fault.  She was so successful in forcing Democrats all to sing from the same sheet of music that now they know no other response.  But the DSA isn’t interested in coming into the Democrat tent.  They’d rather burn the tent down, purge the current leaders, and erect a new tent for their own circus.

The purge is on.  And keep in mind, we’re talking about people who are already on the far Left of the political spectrum.  Chuck Schumer basically is a dead man walking.  If she doesn’t run for president, AOC likely will take his Senate seat.  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is a far, far Left Democrat, and a reliable vote for any crazy progressive policy.  Yet, on the night DSA ousted two incumbent NYC House members in June, DSA Brown Shirts serenaded Jeffries with chants of “You’re next!”

And what is DSA selling?  If there existed an honest media in this country, you already would know, but there doesn’t, so I’ll tell you.  The DSA Platform, according to its website, says that capitalism cannot be reformed into socialism but must be “overthrown and replaced.”  They want the largest corporations  under “public ownership and democratic control,” including public ownership of major transportation and energy infrastructure and natural resources.  (In other words, seize the means of production – Communism).

They want a 32-hour workweek with 40-hour pay, higher taxes on wealthy earners and corporations, taxes on large inheritances and private universities, and a new wealth tax.  (In other words, wealth confiscation – Communism).

They want Medicare for All with no premiums, co-pays or deductibles and guarantees for what the document calls “reproductive and gender-affirming care.”  As for housing and education, universal rent control, taxpayer-funded social housing, a guaranteed right to counsel for every tenant, tuition-free public colleges, no out-of-pocket room-and-board costs and cancellation of all student loan debt.

On immigration, DSA wants workers to migrate between countries without  immigration controls.  It seeks to demilitarize the border, end all immigrant detention and deportations, grant immediate amnesty to every immigrant regardless of current status and provide immigrants access to jobs, labor protections and social services.  Oh, and a couple other things, full voting rights for noncitizens and people with criminal convictions, statehood for Washington, D.C., and slash the defense budget.

On crime, DSA would abolish cash bail and mandatory minimum sentences, demilitarize police departments and treat drug addiction as a health issue rather than a crime.  (In other words, defund the police, end prosecutions, and keep the electorate perpetually high, so they won’t notice).  On foreign affairs DSA would end U.S. military and economic aid and weapons sales to Israel, recognize of the authority of the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, and recognize a sovereign Palestinian State.

If the foregoing hasn’t scared the shit out of you, try this on for size.   The DSA, representing the Party that’s been haranguing us for years about existential threats to our constitutional rights, has a plan to fix all that.  DSA says its goal is a new constitution based on proportional representation in a “single federal legislature” that would “end the role of money in politics.”  Money wouldn’t be needed, as the Marxist electoral system is “One man, one vote, one time.”

Oh yes, did I mention, replacing the Electoral College with a national popular vote, expanding the House, abolishing the Senate and the presidency, and reducing the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review?

The battle against the DSA could go a couple of different ways.  The election of Communists to House seats could backfire, cause a schism in the Party and do lasting damage to the Democrat Party.  But only if Republicans can successfully inform the general public of what’s in store for them should DSA prevail, and  enough reasonable voters go to the polls in swing districts and reject the Marxist takeover.

A good barometer will be the Senate races in Michigan and Missouri.  If Abdul El-Sayad, an openly antisemitic DSA backed candidate, wins in Michigan, and Squad member Cori Bush wins the Senate seat in Missouri, then DSA moves from the Blue districts to the national stage, and that spells trouble.  If the DSA Marxists can be contained in a handful of House seats, they pose a greater threat to the Democrat Party than to the nation.

The message is, don’t take the DSA lightly.  Marxist zealots never give up.

Last week’s America 250 celebrations were awe inspiring.  The tall ships.  The military plane flyovers.  The speech and fireworks at Mount Rushmore.  And the stunning July 4th fireworks show on the National Mall.  Most Americans were inspired by the celebrations, but not all.  No.  There is no satisfaction, no national pride, and no joy in Democratville.  They weren’t inspired by the Independence Day events, they were triggered by them.  (For people who claim to be opposed to guns, leftists spend an awful lot of time talking about their triggers, don’t you think?)

Yes, the people who have devoted their lives to haranguing the rest of us with their idiotic warnings about existential threats to our country should a conservative ever be elected, could find neither the time or the simple decency to take one day off from their psychosis to appreciate the fact that our Republic has endured for 250 years.

These are the same people, mind you, who constantly rail against “No Kings.”  Here is the one national holiday on which we celebrate the men who separated us from a tyrannical king, and these pricks simply can’t stand it.  As Christopher Scalia so aptly put it a number of years ago, “Progressiveism has become the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be celebrating America.”

Democrats are the Party of grievance.  In his “I have a dream speech,” Martin Luther King called upon Americans to “Let freedom ring.”  But today’s Democrats never pass up an opportunity to let grievance ring.

Independence Day was too much for the Left to take.  Everything about the holiday triggered them.  The immensely stupid Sunny Hostin of The View was quite uneasy.  She said just the sight of American flags “in some communities” scared her, because they are a symbol of white supremacy.  She didn’t specify which communities, but Sunny clearly has a problem, and I mean apart from the problem of being afraid of her own nation’s flag.

Liberals like to vacation on Martha’s Vineyard in the Summer.

  That’s a house on Edgartown Harbor on Martha’s Vineyard.  Better stay home Sunny.

And Sunny’s not alone.  A quarter of all Democrats said they wouldn’t celebrate the 4th of July. (Just a hint.  That’s the 25% who vote in Democrat primaries for people like an anti-Christian vegan in Texas, and a Nazi-tattooed rapist in Maine).

New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro decried the awe-inspiring display of America’s military flyovers as “nerve-wracking,” “Why are we having so many jets scorching over DC?  Nerve-wracking.  I get 250 celebrations, but it feels like the apocalypse.”  Put your tin foil hat back on Lulu.

The harridans who run the Women’s March called on protesters to join their “Free America Weekend,” “To Free America from the grip of greedy billionaires who rig the system for themselves.” “Let’s stop the rich and powerful from gambling our future away.” (That means stop them from creating new industries, hiring people and earning a profit).  They don’t want the future gambled away, they’d rather piss it away.  “Free America from poverty.” Really?  Where have these dames been?  When LBJ declared War on Poverty in 1965, about 15% of the population was below the poverty line.  Since then, we’ve spent some $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs, more than enough to finance every real war the U.S. has ever fought in.  The poverty rate hasn’t changed.

John Schwarz, founder of The People’s Union USA, called for a July boycott to protest ICE arrests, and other Trump policies. “This is the most important boycott of the year.  It’s not about politics, it’s about principle,” He instructed Americans to refrain from attending parades and fireworks shows. “It’s about walking away from the illusion they’ve built and reclaiming what it actually means to be free.”  “There is no independence to celebrate right now.” He said the boycott must happen because people love America “too much to lie anymore.” “Don’t wave a flag for a country that no longer waves it for you.”  “The fourth of July is supposed to be a celebration of freedom, but what freedom are we actually talking about?  The right to be watched?  The right to be taxed?  Nobody’s watching you John.  And better cut out that anti-tax talk.  Democrats won’t like it.

Then there’s professor Darien Wellman, PHD.  He commemorated the 4th with Why I Don’t Celebrate the Fourth of July.  He’s got a few complaints: The U.S. was built on the mass displacement and destruction of Indigenous peoples, the enslavement of millions of Africans and their descendants, and the systematic denial of rights to anyone who wasn’t white, male, and wealthy; women lived under oppressive patriarchal laws for generations; Black Americans fought for centuries just to be recognized as citizens; Immigrants were exploited, excluded, or scapegoated; Civil rights protections are being rolled back; the  U.S. government has supported, and directly carried out, acts that meet the definition of genocide; the U.S. has engaged in wars that have cost countless lives, while the human cost of these actions is quietly buried.  He said, “when the Fourth of July comes around, I don’t feel the urge to wave a flag or light fireworks.  I feel the weight of history.”

Wow, I bet you never knew what a terrible place we’re living in.  By the way, we do know the human cost of our actions.  We counted them.  1.3 million Americans gave their lives to make sure Professor Wellman was free to pop off.  They weren’t quietly buried.  They’re in Arlington, the Punchbowl cemetery in Hawaii, Normandy, and many other places.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the  now-debunked “1619 Project,” chimed right in with a call for racial reparations, saying that paying reparations for slavery would amount to admitting that “the entire existence of the United States” is a crime.

But by far the most infuriating critique and rebuke of the fact that Americans dare to celebrate 250 years of their independence came from New York Mayor Commie Mamdani, who gathered around him a bunch from the Star Wars bar scene, to bash the nation he fled Uganda to come to.  Here’s what it looked like.

Oops!  Sorry, that one’s from the Iranian Ayatollah’s funeral.  How did that get in there?

Ah, here it is –You can understand the confusion.  Mamdani spoke of the immigrants arriving in New York with hope, but little knowing they would face nativism, be denied jobs and live in squalor.  He complained of the federal government enacting laws to bar their entry.  We call that legislation Zohran.  See the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Paragraph 8.

Then Zohran went full Marxist on his adopted country.  “The powerful have always known their answer.  America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.  America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes.  America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin.  The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.”  Maybe he’s right.  I’m sorry they let him in.

Mamdani then channeled FDR’s 1937 inaugural speech.  FDR said, “I see millions denied education, recreation, and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children.  I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”  Mamdani perceives no improvement in almost 90 years.

As we mark 250 years, what do we see?  “We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world — one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more.” (This in a nation in which government at all levels is spending $11 trillion a year.  If they can’t get people fed at that price, don’t blame the taxpayers).

“We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections.”  (Like George Soros?)

“We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans.” (ICE agents are entitled to a little Taco Tuesday just like everybody else).

“Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick.”
“Yes, we see America in corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model.”  “Yes, we see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts.” (When we should be spending it on Bums and Bolsheviks).

Mamdani cautioned against saying, “America, love it or leave it,” so I won’t remind him that there’s a big beautiful door in that big beautiful wall on the border.  Ah, what the Hell.  If we’re really that bad, on your way out, don’t let that door hit you in the ass, Zohran.

The Left isn’t required to celebrate Independence Day, or any other holiday, for that matter.  Since they’re still living in the past, complaining of ills that existed in 1937, but no longer prevail, I suggest a proverb from the past.  “If you don’t have anything good to say, shut your friggin pie hole.”

Tomorrow we mark the 250th anniversary of the 1776 Declaration of Independence.  More specifically, it is our semiquincentennial.  Every Independence Day is special for Americans, or at least used to be.  When our schools actually were forums for education, rather than indoctrination, when students were taught history, love of country, and to appreciate the sacrifices of those who came before them, July 4th was more than just a national holiday.

Today, for far too many, it’s just another day off from work.  A day for barbecue and beer.  They know it’s a day for celebrating with fireworks, but I’m sure precious few of them know why.  For the record, that comes from a prediction made by John Adams shortly after the signing of the Declaration.  “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival…It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

I’ve written before of the toll taken on the generations of students who’ve been the victims of educational malpractice.  They’re not taught history or civics.  Instead of respect for the nation whose bounty they enjoy, they’re encouraged to heap scorn on their country, and to be ashamed of their heritage.

I’m no Pollyanna.  America is the greatest nation on the face of the Earth, but it’s no utopia, and far from perfect.  But to those who would dwell on our faults, I ask, “Has such a utopia every existed anywhere else?”  Sure, there are parts of our history that weren’t pretty.  Some were downright ugly.  The point is that young people should be learning all of our history, the good, the bad and the ugly.

But don’t take my word for it.  That sentiment was part of the message expressed by John Hancock, in his famous speech to the Second Virginia Revolutionary Convention, in Richmond, on March 23, 1775.  “Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?  For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.  I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.  I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.”

He ended the speech with the well known words, “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  Forbid it, Almighty God!  I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”  Armed with full knowledge of the past, John Hancock was able to understand the stakes.  Liberty, or death.  Absent such knowledge, ignorance isn’t bliss, it’s downright dangerous.

The men who signed the Declaration, lately are derided by scores of highly indoctrinated academic morons, who dismiss them for being all male, all white, some of whom who were slave owners.  All those things are true, of course.  But what’s also true is that any attempt to imprint 21st Century values on 18th Century actors is at best folly, and at worst an evil attempt to take advantage of those whom they’ve chosen to consign to ignorance.

In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, echoing the words of the Declaration, described America as a nation “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”  The Left, which dominates the media, portrays American history through a Marxist lens; as the struggle between the oppressors and the oppressed.  For them, America is a nation conceived by land theft, motivated by greed, and dedicated to tyranny and inequality.

The Left ignores all progress made toward the ideals stated in the Declaration since 1776.  They have no desire to strive for the “more prefect Union” envisioned by our Constitution.  They are dedicated to but one cause, the destruction of the form of government conceived by the Founders.  Their false message to the world is that the United States is evil.  I’m pleased to see that the foreign visitors who’ve come for the World Cup now realize  they’ve been lied to.  Overwhelmingly, they love our country, our way of life, and even our Ranch Dressing.  By contrast, less than a third of Democrats are proud of America.

Americans founded the first nation on Earth dedicated to self-government.  They tamed a unknown frontier, crossed endless plains, and conquered forbidding mountains, to spread the dream of our Founders across a continent.  In 250 years, the foundling nation of 1776 became the economic powerhouse that has fed the world, powered the world, and in time of war, protected the world from true tyrants who would banish freedom.

In his second inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln called the United States, “the last, best hope of the Earth.”  If that still wasn’t the case, millions wouldn’t be risking life and limb to come here.  The 250th anniversary deserves celebration.  President Trump has tried to properly honor the nation, but, as with all things, he’s met with resistance.

I remember the bicentennial in 1976.  Every part of our country, including Hollywood and the media, joined in the celebration.  Remember the CBS Bicentennial Minutes?  This time, there doesn’t seem to be as much enthusiasm for celebrating America.  We could write it off as a manifestation of Trump Derangement Syndrome, but it’s more than that.

The Trump Administration worked hard to beautify Washington for the 250th.  Fountains that were dry for decades now flow.  The reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial was repaired and resurfaced.  Afterward, the pool was vandalized, its liner slashed, and we’re told that fertilizer dumped in the water contributed to algae growth.  As always, the Left denies these claims, and grotesque neon-haired imbeciles are marching up and down in support, not of their country, but of the algae.  They’ve given new meaning to the term, Scum of the Earth.

The President organized the Great American State Fair.  It was to have exhibits from all 50 States.  Seven States refused to participate.  Pennsylvania sent the most delegates (8) to the Second Continental Congress, but its current Governor refused to participate in the Fair.  In addition, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington opted out.  The one thing all these States have in common is Democrat Governors.  Some pled fiscal problems.  Others claimed that the event was “too partisan.”  If celebrating you country is “too partisan” simply because a Republican happens to be president, then who’s the real partisan?  And if your hatred is more important to you than country, you need to seek help.

As I said, it’s more than just Trump hatred driving these people.  The leftists can’t bring themselves to celebrate a form of government that they hate.  They view the Constitution as merely an antiquated obstacle, to be ignored by superior beings such as themselves.  And they reject the Declaration of Independence.  In a speech on July 4, 1914, Woodrow Wilson dismissed the Declaration as merely “a historical document,” that had no meaning for later generations.  Il Duce Obama bashed it again just last week, saying the Founders “fell short” of their goals.

I think the real reason that those on the Left reject the Declaration is because they stand for and advocate the very things that compelled our Founders to separate us from Great Britain.  Simply put, leftists may protest against “No Kings,” but they practice what the Founders called, the very “injuries and usurpations” of which they declared King George guilty.

The Declaration contains a litany of offenses committed by King George against the Colonies.  A few may sound familiar.  “He has refused to assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”  80% of Americans favor a voter ID requirement.  Democrats refuse to consent.

“He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing to assent to laws.”  What are sanctuary States and cities, which protect illegal aliens in violation of federal law, but obstructions of justice?

“He has made judges dependent on his will alone.”  Scores of rogue federal judges, appointed by Il Duce Obama and Biden are perverting the Constitution  to frustrate the Chief Executive.

“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”  If left to their own devices, Democrats would regulate most businesses, and our very way of life out of existence.  If you doubt me, try to rebuild your burned up house in Los Angeles.

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us.”  Wielding Antifa terrorists as their enforcement arm, Democrats never miss an opportunity for a good riot.

The Founders summed up their litany of offenses by pronouncing that a leader, “whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” Amen, brothers.  They ended the Declaration with, “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”

This is important.  Bolshevik Bernie Sanders likes to rail against “the oligarchs.”  Our Founders were men of means, oligarchs, if you will, who risked all to create the first government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” ever conceived.  Had they failed, all their property would have been seized, and they hanged.  Somehow, the revolution spawned by the Declaration succeeded, and the rest is history; the history most of you never were taught.

So when you pop open that beer tomorrow, give some thought to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, in order to give you your day off.  A simple Thank You would suffice.