Celebrating America, Despite Our Divisions

Why the violent reaction to Roe v. Wade being overturned? You would think that in effect the decision was anti-democracy (as many on the left claimed). But it was pro-democracy.Based on the riots and the backlash from Hollywood, you would think that the Supreme Court took the right of the people to rule themselves through their legislators out of their hands. But in reality, the court restored the Constitutional principle that “we the people” should be in charge of our own lives through our elected representatives.Roe v. Wade of 1973 in effect stipulated for half a century government by an oligarchy—the rule of seven robed men in a decision in 1973 by the Supreme Court that imposed abortion on demand by fiat. Last week’s Dobbs v. Jackson reversed this threat to democratic rule by putting the people themselves, again through their chosen delegates, back in power.This gets back to what America is all about: We the people, under God, getting to rule our own destiny. What a gift. But you wouldn’t know it from today’s headlines.The decision to restore the people’s rule comes on the cusp of our nation’s birthday. On July 4th 2022, America will be 246 years old.July 4, 1776 was the day in which the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, officially agreed by voice vote to adopt the final wording of the Declaration of Independence.After 150 years of self-government under God in many of the colonies of British North America, the fo …