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and analysis of the writer:

On this Independence Day weekend, we bitterly remember that last Thursday a bare and miscreant majority in the House of Representatives ratified what is probably the most cruel and grotesque law ever enacted in our great and glorious land.

Our Independence Day celebration served to revive the optimism in our hearts and the patriotism in our souls. It has reminded us that our America has been a better place than it appears right now. In addition, it reminds us that we continue to wield the power to restore our proud nation to how grand and glorious it has been. It prompts us to rebel so that we may leave a brighter future for our children and our grandchildren.

We, the people, have been endowed by our ancestors with the most unusual legacy in the entire world — the freedom to choose — the right to vote — the freedom to decide whom we are willing to entrust with the power to act in behalf of all of us — to light our way to better days — to decency — to a shared humanity.

Never forget that we have innate and inherent strength — sheer potential willpower — to hold on to our better selves. We are able to tap our inner fortitudes as we gird up for some predictably miserable months and years ahead under the thumb of a heartless egocentric monster who, in turn, has managed to bend to his will by frightening those heartless, inhumane, feckless and miscreant Republican congressional bare majorities, whom we had elected and granted virtually unlimited power over our lives.

Remember that we have the final say as to the futures of those cowering politicos as election days roll around. We, the currently downtrodden, have been blessed with the last word by our founding fathers. That word is in the form of our vote. Election day is our opportunity to respond with a singular voice — to send them packing. Then, the dispossessed can spend the rest of their miserable lives licking their wickedly earned wounds in their ignominious futures ruing the respect which they have squandered and the honor they have besmirched in exchange for gold and for a wasted moment of power and glory not earned.

This is America, this is the land of the free and the home of the brave. We are a people who may be knocked down, like at Pearl Harbor, but we never get knocked out. We may lose a battle here or there, but we always manage to pull together as one and to make whatever sacrifices may be necessary to prevail for better days. We have the potential for shared humaneness and for the brotherly and neighborly love all of us need.