The 4th of July feels like a sad holiday to me. We celebrate an independence won over two centuries ago, like an out of shape former athlete reminiscing about his glory days on the high school football team.
What we need independence from today isn’t the British — who seem about as threatening as a glass of warm Ovaltine — but from modern tyrannies like big business and, of course, the national security state.
How about we send all the religious people on to the next country again? Just put them on a boat, wish them the best of luck, and don’t let them come back.
Do we have to wish them good luck?
Now, now…
There’s always room to be gracious and polite when you’re forcibly relocating an entire population.
No, and let’s ship them to the great pacific garbage patch.
One of the most believable things about Starship Troopers and The Expanse was that the Mormons were colonizing other worlds, ostensibly for religious liberty.