The world’s sole remaining superpower was born on July 4th, 1776, as a newly minted nation composed of thirteen former British colonies that had just defeated King George III of Great Britain, the reigning monarch of Imperial England during the years of the Revolutionary War.
Great Britain was a globe-spanning naval superpower, at the time, in its own right.
The birth of a new nation must have been a joyous occasion indeed after a bitter war for independence over tyranny and injustice that at one point, was almost lost. In the intervening years the United States of America has morphed into a dominant world leader in almost every category imaginable.
Forget the city shinning city on a hill metaphor from decades past, the USA is on top of the damn mountain and weighing it down. So, what does Independence Day represent in 2025, 248 years after the nation’s birth via a hard-fought war against her colonial masters?
The United States of America is at a crossroads of a difficult sort. At a crucial turning point that the most sophisticated and erudite of political prognosticators could have hardly envisioned as recently as the end of the last century.
The USA is now led by a charismatic 79-year-old, wispy-haired former reality TV star of average intelligence and supremely bad manners. A presumed billionaire who only as recently as January 6th, 2021, attempted a coup in the most cowardly way possible. Sending his followers alone to Capitol Hill without their leader, to do his dirty work. All in an effort to remain in office after the voters had thrown him out in favor of Joe Biden. A former senator from the state of Delaware, and a man who had served eight faithful years as Vice President under the dignified and transcendent leadership of President Barack Hussein Obama.
The first man of mixed African decent to hold the nation’s highest office.
From afar the United States must seem a confusing nightmare to both friend and foe, alike. President Donald J. Trump lumbers from one key decision to the next, like a fat walrus navigating the jagged rocks near the salty seaside, only to completely reverse himself days later without any real explanation beyond some blithering idiocy coming from out of his mouth, that gives new meaning to the term, word salad.
The Republican Party is Trump’s enabler. Both House and Senate leaders of the conservative wing of America’s bicameral legislature, are mere sycophants that offer zero push back or corrective guidance of any kind to America’s 47th president. In their adoring eyes Donald Trump can do no wrong and is beyond reproach. Those who dare oppose his political whims are described by party leadership and members on the floor, as useless WOKE liberals, traitors, turncoats and communists who hate our great MAGA-led nation.
Today’s America is a land where chaos rules. The conservative and highly politicized United States Supreme Court are Trump’s willing collaborators. Led by six conservative jurists America’s highest court, just recently, by virtue of their ruling, effectively allowed the president to circumvent the law in his attempt to disallow birthright citizenship.
A civil right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Even vaunted institutions of higher education are not safe from The White House’s attempt at reimagining the American nation. Dare cross what the president demands, such as the complete disbandment of DEI protocols, and their government funding is threatened. Television networks are also threatened with lawsuits over interviews that might damage the president’s reputation.
ICE agents roam America’s streets in unmarked vehicles seeking undocumented immigrants to whisk away to detention centers that may be out-of-state, thousands of miles away from friends, family or convenient legal assistance.
This bizzarro world is the America of 2025 and it is happening in broad daylight right in front of our eyes. Billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s former trusted advisor has apparently seen the light. As unbelievable as that may be given the mix-matched duo’s past collaborations as he bashes the so-called Big Beautiful Bill on social media. Trump’s pet legislation that the president is desperate to pass by July 4th, as a symbol of his great leadership.
The Big Beautiful Bill, as it now stands, will expand the national debt by an estimated 3 trillion dollars over the next decade. This poisonous legislation will strip Medicate benefits from poor people and vulnerable seniors, all so that the wealthy can benefit from extended tax cuts, they neither need nor deserve.
Donald Trump is clearly a man who does not love America as it exists today. He lives to flout the law because he knows the spineless sycophants in his party will not stop him. He violates the emoluments clause at will. One such example is the administration’s acceptance of the gift of a $400,000,000 dollar Boeing 747 from the Middle-East nation of Quatar, allegedly to serve as one of America’s prestigious and essential Air Force One jetliners.
The president trades upon the Trump last name to sell crypto coins, and just recently he announced a line of fragrances entitled Victory 45-47, or some such nonsense, that also bear the family name on the labeling.
Trump!
Is there really a need to say that this has never before been seen in American politics?
If this were a screenplay any self-respecting movie studio executive would toss the pages into the nearest wastepaper basket because the description of such outrageous acts by a sitting US president would be deemed too far “out there” and not credible, as to be believed by anyone with a proverbial grain of good common sense.
This is the joke America has become just months into Donald Trump’s second term.
Our country has lost respect worldwide and to some of the United States closest, long-standing allies, we are no longer a country that can be trusted to stand by our word because of the volatility of the former reality TV star who occupies the Oval Office.
Two-hundred forty-eight years in the bank, Independence Day 2025 is perhaps a moment for the nation’s citizenry to gauge what is at stake. Never before has there been a more ineffective legislative branch, as highly-politicized a Supreme Court and a wobbly-kneed mainstream press that is partly intimidated by the Commander and Chief, and half-to-blame for the undeserving Trump’s ascension to power in the first place.
Never before has America witnessed laws and legal precedent bowled over by the very individual at the seat of power who, by sworn oath, is obligated to protect the nation’s freedoms – instead of trampling upon those freedoms as if they were thin eggshells waiting to be ground into dust.
The United States of America fought a harsh revolutionary war and a horrendously brutal civil war where many brave men – enslaved and free alike – perished, so that this nation could live on.
An egotistical reality star who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word shame, isn’t going to erase all of that glorious history so easily just by flying around in a gilded airplane, or by spouting inane Make America Great Again slogans whenever he is in front of a television camera.
King George III wasn’t able to defeat the thirteen stalwart colonies that bravely declared independence from Great Britain and became the United States of America. The current occupant of the White House would be a fool and-a-half, if he in any way believes that this country will so easily accept a tin-pot authoritarian leader, who refuses to leave when it is time to say goodbye to Washington and return to his Florida estate.
This nation is born of sacrificed blood and isn’t bred for dictators of any kind.
The American public already knows who Donald J. Trump really is. That’s the Trump card, pun intended. In the six months since his second inauguration this past January, he has revealed himself fully.
So now there is absolutely no doubt.
The low information MAGA voters and villainous white supremacists hiding behind nondescript personalities are not going to be nearly enough to clear a path for the establishment of a grim authoritarian dystopia on American soil.
The wounded soul of this country won’t allow it.
And neither will the American people.
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Oliver M. Greene is a freelance writer and online content creator, as well as a keen and discerning observer of the American political landscape.
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