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Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. Nobody has ever liked everything about the US. Not even George Washington. If you can't appreciate the good about the country just because you're paying attention to the bad currently then you should have never celebrated it in the first place because the bad was always there.
The things you dont like about America don't have to be your complete view of the country or its history. If there is even a small thing you have ever liked about the country then the 4th is for celebrating that.
Celebrate our victories. Celebrate our culture and our successes. Celebrate how mad people are going to be at you for celebrating. Celebrate that there are like-minded people elsewhere in the country. Real Americans in hard times and with doubts. Celebrate our history and our positive contributions to the rest of the world.
Celebrate a possible and hopeful future of what comes after.
This, but OP, I think, pointed to the issue maybe without realizing it:
If you feel you are just a.cog in a capitalist machine and not a citizen of a country, why would you celebrate?
It feels like Fox news and all the wedge issues have done their work and destroyed our sense of collective citizenship. Now the GOP is doing their corporate owners' bidding.
I do feel like a cog. I don't feel like a valued citizen -- I just feel like some schmuck the administration and/or multinational corporations can siphon money from. The attitude of the USA doesn't feel like "Let's work together to make a great place!" Lately, it feels more to me like "Fuck everyone else, I want to get paid!"
It feels almost abusive.
One of the craziest things to me is it's 100% demonstrable the USA spends some of the most money per person on health care and does not get anywhere close to the top outcomes in health care, but if you ask people on the street, many of them will say USA is #1 in healthcare.
That's the point where patriotism turns the corner into delusion.
I'm sorry but that makes me vomit in my mouth thinking about it. There is NOTHING good or right with this nation. Genocide against the natives, slavery, bigotry & ignorance, and then endless wars and division. This nation is the United Snake.
I'm sorry your view of things is so bleak. I'll fire off an Excalibur round for you Friday.
I liked when we stopped putting immigrants in interment camps after WWII. They're building new one now so what am I meant to celebrate again?