What's your thoughts about Juneteenth?
DISCUSSION
Banks and post offices are closed. Legit holiday or what? Biden gave the deep state workers another freebie at our expense. Seems to me we have too many federal holidays already. I keep hoping that part of Trump's agenda will be to drastically cut the size and scope of government. Personally I think that first cut should be 50% and then chip away from there until it's about 25% of what we currently have. Then maybe our taxes can go down in an effort to free the rest of us slaves who pay taxes and foot the bills for outrageous expenditures like $billions to Ukraine and pallets of cash to Iran.
It's a yearly reminder that slavery was probably the biggest mistake of the American experiment. Not just for the obvious reasons, but because it cemented big government in what was supposed to be a small government / relatively stateless society. Why? Because it needed a government bureaucracy and legal system to socialise the cost of slave ownership for the few slave owners and it prevented a free market in human labor. Not to mention that it imported people from incompatible cultures.
No, the British weren't the first, and no it wasn't limited to blacks, but If they had nipped slavery in the bud just a century earlier, we might not be experiencing nearly as much cultural and political subversion today.