Happy 4th of July America!!!!
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"It seems entirely revealing, if dispiriting, that the days before the July Fourth holiday showed Red America and Blue America pulling apart at an accelerating rate.
Of all of our national holidays, Independence Day is the one most intimately rooted in our common history and shared experience. Yet this year it arrives against a background of polarization, separation, and confrontation in the states and Washington alike. With municipal politics as the occasional exception, the pattern of solidifying agreement within the parties—and widening disagreement between them—is dominating our decisions at every level...."
Red, Divided and Blue Fly This Independence Day - NationalJournal.com
On almost all of our major policy choices, the common thread is that the election of 2012 did not "break the fever" of polarization, as President Obama once hoped it might. Last November, Obama became only the third Democrat in the party's history to win a majority of the popular vote twice. But congressional Republicans, preponderantly representing the minority that voted against Obama, have conceded almost nothing to his majority—leaving the two sides at a stalemate. Meanwhile, beyond the Beltway, states that lean Democratic and those that lean Republican are separating at a frenetic pace.
Red, Divided and Blue Fly This Independence Day - NationalJournal.com
Of all of our national holidays, Independence Day is the one most intimately rooted in our common history and shared experience. Yet this year it arrives against a background of polarization, separation, and confrontation in the states and Washington alike. With municipal politics as the occasional exception, the pattern of solidifying agreement within the parties—and widening disagreement between them—is dominating our decisions at every level...."
Red, Divided and Blue Fly This Independence Day - NationalJournal.com
On almost all of our major policy choices, the common thread is that the election of 2012 did not "break the fever" of polarization, as President Obama once hoped it might. Last November, Obama became only the third Democrat in the party's history to win a majority of the popular vote twice. But congressional Republicans, preponderantly representing the minority that voted against Obama, have conceded almost nothing to his majority—leaving the two sides at a stalemate. Meanwhile, beyond the Beltway, states that lean Democratic and those that lean Republican are separating at a frenetic pace.
Red, Divided and Blue Fly This Independence Day - NationalJournal.com
That is a huge misnomer! In my many visits to the U.S. I have invariably been treated to generosity, kindliness, helpfulness and friendliness. Of course people generally treat you the same way you treat them.
ROFLMAO... that's great ... one from 2009 from an american and the other from 2003 and it was andem that posted it.
Cinco de Mayo is a bigger holiday in California than the Fourth of July. Cinco de Mayo resonates with people here to a much greater degree. In my home town the Fourth of July isn't celebrated officially.
Cinco de Mayo was like St. Patrick's day at one time. Just a day to party.
However, Cinco de Mayo has taken on a new ethno-nationalist meaning in California in the last decade.
