Name:   architect - Subject:   Happy Birthday America Date:   7/4/2018 5:19:58 PM (updated 7/4/2018 5:36:37 PM)

Good post and a great sentiment Rich...see if you can talk Wix and Phil into embracing it.  Sorry, but for me, my family, and most of my friends, neighbors and clients and for millions of our fellow citizens this is a sad Independence Day, an Independence Day when so many Americans now ascribe to a personality cult that equates patriotism with support of one man and his agenda.  It is an attitude made obvious by many who post on this forum with often vile comments about anybody who dares to question Donald Trump and his agenda (see the post that started this thread, see almost any post by Wix, Phil, MM and a dozen others).  I am sorry and hate to say it, but at the moment I am truly concerned for our nation's future because I sincerly feel that the ideals of the Declaration and the Constitution are under attack from the very people who purport to hold them sacred. 

On this Independence Day I am very proud to be an American but, for the moment, I am not proud of America.