In a 7/4 state of mind

[ebonlock]

This is bloody brilliant:

To respond to Rove's "pre-9/11" and "post-9/11" language, we should speak of "pre-7/4" and "post-7/4" mentalities. The fact that I even need to explain this concept is a subject most fascinating to me.
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My desire is to make "7/4" more popular and ubiquitous in our language than "9/11", because it is a better and fundamentally more important concept. Gentle reader, I would enlist your help in this endeavor. It would behoove us all to challenge our families, friends and neighbors to figure out what "7/4" could possibly mean. Once the realization finally comes, the blinders that Rove has fitted upon us, constraining our vision to a world of terror, fall away and a world of truth and beauty appear once again.

Now I'll do you the kindness of spelling it out, in case you haven't yet shed the blinders.

"7/4" refers to July 4, of course. Specifically, July 4, 1776. Bush and Rove have a pre-7/4 mentality, which means they believe in the divine right of kings. The divine right of kings is the specific concept placed on the ash heap of history by the Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4, 1776. It's a concept that Bush and Rove are slowly but successfully reviving through fearful and intimidating propoganda, such as their "pre-9/11 mentality" smear.

The administration's critics, including their foes among the ranks of the Democratic Party, have a post-7/4 mentality, a paradigm that includes such notions as the consent of the governed, inalienable rights and all the other revolutionary ideas advanced by America's founding fathers and enshrined in our founding documents.

This is a plea to all Americans to restore their once proud and courageous post-7/4 mentality and disenthrall themselves from Rove's cowardly post-9/11 mentality. Spread the word. "7/4" is the antidote for "9/11".

Comments

[elo-sf.livejournal.com]

This I like.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

Bloody brilliant

[murdoch.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking that since my trip to Philadelphia... the US seems to have moved way too close to what we rebelled against. Which makes me wonder *which* democracy we're trying to export to other countries (it does seem that our current one matches that past one like Stalin's Communism matched Marx's).

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

And so we become what we hate the most, yeah that's what I've been seeing since just after 9/11. It's like they feel the only way to fight reactionary religious fundamentalism is to respond with it, and a delightful mix of fascist totalitarianism to boot. Fortunately for them with Alito on the Supreme Court it'll soon all be legal.