Rhetorical Questions: Why is there such celebration surrounding today's empty state ritual? Why celebrate a pyrrhic victory that propagates and continues the oppression of the largest, most destructive empire that has ever existed? The most effective propaganda machine in the world? The evil cabal that brainwashes our children, makes us slaves by confiscating more than 50% of our wealth at the point of a gun, destroys our savings by unlimited borrowing and printing of dollars to prosecute global wars from nearly a thousand military bases scattered around the planet? Oh, perhaps there may be a brief reprieve on one or two axes... a temporary retreat. It is a chimera. Do your homework; you are witnessing naught but the Hegelian dialectic, leading you by the nose along the broad, ever downward roadway to hell and destruction. Statism is a failed and failing evil. Wake up and abandon it before it drags you down in it's own self-destructive demise.