The fourth of July celebrations of USA Independence Day seemed unusually hollow this year to me because of the reaction of USA citizens to the arrival at the USA-Mexico border of large numbers of war refugee children and mothers. These poor children and their mothers were seen here as “a threat to our very existence,” had their buses blocked by USA patriots and even received death threats.
The best single comment I read on the occasion was from Duncan Black:
“July 4th: Should we yell at some poor children or something?”
This occasion seemed to me to be a new low for the US and I tried writing something out to that point, but soon realized that it was not at all a new low.
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