The celebration of July 4, Independence Day in the United States, is dull and uneasy due to violence, social polarization and the primitive behavior of the Supreme Court of this country.
Celebrating independence doesn't make much sense when the Supreme Court, a group of white men with no representation of the enormous ideological and ethnic diversity that exists in the United States, overturns the ruling Roe v. Wade and thereby takes away women's control and freedom over their bodies and childbearing.
Nor is it encouraging to know that this same small group of men dealt a serious blow to the urgent fight against climate change by removing the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to limit carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming.
And, as if that were not enough, despite the series of massacres that have bathed the United States in blood and shame this year, the Supreme Court struck down New York State's restrictions on carrying weapons in public. This not only affects New York, but also sends a retrograde national message of indifference, and even promotion, of the enormous violence that is tearing apart the social fabric in many neighborhoods and cities in the country.
I don't want to be a party pooper. Celebrating is always good. Let's enjoy the concerts, parades and shows that have been carefully prepared. But let's also take advantage of this day to reflect and condemn the abuses of a rancid and abusive Supreme Court that does everything except work for us.
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