It’s a holiday to venerate an ideal steeped in words like “Freedom”, “Self-Determination”, and “Exceptionalism” but is really just commemorating when a bunch of white male landholding slave owners decided they hated being taxed enough to go kill tax collectors and sold the public on the idea with propaganda. The entire system they put in place has built in mechanisms to ensure that true democracy is impossible (and was never really the point) and that the monied interests continue to exert outsized influence over policies and laws that benefit and enrich them.
And also a day when it’s guaranteed that at least a measurable percentage of people will wake up tomorrow unable to count to ten on their remaining fingers.
There seems to be a trend of three with these things. Graham, McConnell, and… I’m sure there’s a bookmaker somewhere that is taking action in who the final name is. I know I have my list of hopefuls