Why we give a shit:
Fireworks and flag-waving while they strip rights from women, trans people, immigrants, and anyone who isn't a straight white Christian male.
Thought-terminating cliché:
“The personal is political”
- Can't celebrate freedom when women in 22 states have fewer rights than their grandmothers
- They're deporting people at record rates while celebrating liberty — the irony is suffocating
- The founding fathers would be appalled (well, the non-slaveholding ones anyway)
- Wave your sparklers while the republic burns. Very on brand.