Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/03/17
Tomorrow is one of the two great secular holidays in the US, Independence Day, or perhaps the first, true Brexit. I’m not sure that too many people downing hot dogs, jumping in the water, or setting off fireworks understand just how brave an act the Revolution was, or of the dangers the Founding Fathers had created for themselves (they all would have been hanged if we had lost). And I want to scrupulously avoid contests about the oldest Democracies, with Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and others hotly contesting the title.
My exhortation to my fellow Americans would be this: Be grateful. We criticize our own country relentlessly because we can. We demonstrate our follies, flaws, and foibles to the world because we don’t feel the need to protect our egos. We serve as the world’s cop because we think it’s our duty. We have shed blood for democracy and liberty globally. We haven’t always been right, and we admit it. We are monumentally self-critical. We publicly debate and argue important issues with passion because it’s the basis of our strength.
Enjoy the holiday. Enjoy your family and friends. But take five minutes to consider this: Less than 250 years ago, only about ten generations, people fought for an ideal that has become America. A revisionist history offered by some has attempted to dim the light cast by Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Franklin, and the rest. But that light continues to shine, a beacon for us all.
We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor
– signers of the Declaration of Independence
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