Happy Birthday, You CRAZY Fucking Yanks!

[RBInMaine]

6. Canada has its trouble spots too. And most of what you show are MINORITY views.

There are movements in Canada to do away with your single-payer healthcare system. You keep electing the Conservative Party into power. You have a total nut in charge of Toronto. Why's he still around? Plenty of nuts up in Canada too, though I'll agree not as many proportionally as we have here. We're a much larger and more diverse nation in population.

Most of what you talk about in terms of our problems are MINORITY views. Sadly, those who oppose those views aren't always as organized and vocal. THAT is the problem. APATHY mainly on the left. And while I agree MUCH more with those on the left than the right. I am fair and always talk about how the left needs to STOP THE BITCHING AND WHINING AND START THE ORGANIZING, COMMUNICATING, AND VOTING. That's not to say that there aren't bright spots. There are. But the left generally is much worse about real ORGANIZATION and TAKING THE FIGHT HARD TO THE RIGHT WING. It's weak-kneed, whiny, and jelly-spined all too often. This SHIT about taking the "high road" is a load of CRAP in many of these arguments. You need to FIGHT. And WAY too many on the left to center-left just don't get that.

Still, today we celebrate the ideals of America, many of which bear out every day. And we honor those from the past, both the leaders and the common folks, who sacrificed so much that we might have something better.