Molly Ivins: July 4, 2005....Here's to all the angry liberals & to all the angry conservatives....

[kpete]

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Once again, we celebrate America---despite absolutely everything, still a great nation after all these years. Happy birthday to us. Yet again, we rejoice not so much in what makes America great, as in what makes it really peculiar. This is in the belief that one of America's finest traits is that it is a blissfully funny place to live. …

Lynne Cheney, the veeper's wife, has formed the Committee to Protect American Civilization, which is publishing 100 examples of allegedly unpatriotic assertions by professors in our nation. For example: If all Lynne Cheney's brains were dynamite, she couldn't blow her nose? …

We continue our charmingly eccentric habit of polling ourselves to find out how ignorant we are. Then we all slap our foreheads in dismay over the national dumbness. This particular oddity yields such nuggets as: 37.2 percent of us think the Mexican border should pay rent. …

All this and so much more make America the country we love. Anyone who is blase, jaundiced, bored or seldom-startled just isn't paying attention. So here's to all of us who make this a great nation, including the school-crossing guards, the people who line up hundreds of dominos to fall over on other dominos and the bingo players who carry their little plastic chips in blue velvet Crown Royal scotch bags.

And here's to all the angry liberals and to all the angry conservatives---take the day off, and enjoy the hot dogs and the fireworks. And try to remember when we come back to normal partisan warfare that all of us do, actually, love this ridiculous, wonderful place.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/4/1544776/-Cheers-and-Jeers-July-4-1776-Edition

[Hortensis]

1. Ah, we miss you, Molly! Thanks, Kpete.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. - The Great Molly Ivins