Cal Thomas and Paul Greenberg, two columnists I don't generally agree with but always read to challenge my own opinions, wrote splendid articles for the 4th of July. I am not going to bother with the links, but instead am going to comine and paraphrase them. America in an ongoing process. People on the left or right are not more patriotic than one another. Both love our country and want to improve our imperfect union. We disagree about our vision of what our more perfect union would be. But the fact that we disagree and engage in vigorous debate is something to be celebrated, rejoiced, embraced, enjoyed. This is the beauty of our imperfect union.
This is something our forefathers, the creators of our representative democracy, would recognize as a sign that what they did 220+ years ago was a success, that they had not failed. They would hear echoes of the same debates in which they engaged in the arguments we have here, elsewhere, over beers, with our friends.
So, thank you, friends, for sharing with me in the most wonderful of the freedoms our forefathers set up for us. Let us always protect the freedom of our brother to be absolutely wrong, or, to his way of thinking, for us to be complete idiots.
