Independence Day 2025 marks the 249th anniversary of the July 4,1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence. America’s Revolutionary War was already underway. First shots were fired by Minutemen over a year earlier— April 1775, in Lexington, Massachusetts. The purpose of the Declaration was to set forth the justification or causes for the war and the demand for political separation from Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration, grounded the right of the thirteen British colonies to establish their independence on natural law—the “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.”
Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776, By Jean Leon Gerome Ferris. Ferris’ 1900 depiction of (left to right) Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson of the Committee of Five working on the Declaration of Independence; the depiction was widely reprinted.
In a single line, Jefferson captured the essential meaning of the American Revolution. “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Following the Declaration of Independence in 1776, there would be seven more grueling years of war before Great Britain recognized the independence of the colonies in 1783. And another six years would pass before the Constitutional Convention discarded the Articles of Confederation in favor of the United States Constitution which became effective in 1789.
Unlike the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence was never submitted for ratification to the individual states. Yet it is universally accepted as America’s first ‘founding document.’ It is our most concise and eloquent expression of the principles of personal freedom and representative government which are the foundation stones of the American Republic.
By John Trumbull – US Capitol, Public Domain, Link
Philadelphia has changed a lot—culturally and demographically– since our nation’s founders met there to form a new kind of political organization based on individual liberty and the consent of the governed. And so has the country they founded. Although the men who invented the historic American nation declared that “all men are created equal” they were not themselves a diverse or inclusive group. To a man, they were people of Christian faith and European stock.
Jefferson himself and many other signers of the Declaration of Independence were unapologetic slave owners. In the context of history, there was no hypocrisy between the ideals they professed and the lives they lived. They saw no contradiction between the idea that “all men are created equal” and the natural and inevitable distinctions among mankind in their social, economic and political stations.
The social conditions of mankind have changed a great deal in the last two and half centuries. But we need not offer apology or make excuses for the views of our founders. They were Bible readers and men of faith. From time immemorial slavery was an accepted system of labor sanctioned by scripture and tradition. To judge men of the 18th century by today’s standards is a form of intellectual dishonesty uninformed by history.
Although our Founders created a nation based on religious freedom and tolerance, every delegate to the Second Continental Congress was white, male, and Christian. ANTIFA zealots and anti-white politicians may condemn America’s origins, it is a historic fact that the founders of our nation were a homogenous group in language, culture, race and religion.
The United States of 2025 is one of the most racially and culturally diverse nations in history. Could our political leaders of today craft a Constitution that had any chance of acceptance by the fragmented and polarized nation we have become?
Most of our Founders were educated men, better schooled in history and political philosophy than those who followed. They were not trying to create a governing document for a diverse or inclusive multicultural society. They made their purpose explicit in the Preamble to the United States Constitution:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
What did they mean by “Posterity”? The term has a very specific meaning. It refers to lineal descendants or offspring. Our founders understood that a stable government based on the “consent of the governed” requires a common culture and common ancestry. They knew that racial and cultural diversity would inevitably lead to tribalism, resentment and the loss of social cohesion. It is no accident that America’s first immigration law enacted in 1790, restricted immigration to those of European stock.
This policy promoted the unity and social cohesion essential to a functioning democracy. A specific racial and cultural identity was foundational to the historic American Nation. Our founders’ restrictions on non white immigration led to the creation of a relatively homogenous country. The national census of 1960 reported that the US population was overwhelmingly white—88.9%. A white super majority allowed the United States to remain culturally unified, economically prosperous and militarily strong. We became a force for great good in the world. That country no longer exists.
According to the 2020 U.S. Census, Americans of European stock are now less than 60% of the total population. White Americans under the age of 18 are now a racial minority. In Arizona, the K-12 school population is 38% white, down from 40% just a few years ago.
The American workforce and essential cultural and educational institutions including the media and the US military are rapidly becoming majority non white. White Americans are fleeing decaying urban centers and even entire states. The overall racial transformation of the United States, unprecedented in the history of nations, is now irreversible.
No one really knows what this portends for America’s future. But for whites, the evidence to date is not encouraging. Anti-white media and elected officials have proliferated. Cultural debasement, lower standards of living, shorter life spans, urban squalor and violent crime, dysfunctional schools, and government corruption have become entrenched features of American life.
Most of those reading this can remember when the United States was the most prosperous country in the world. Not anymore. Here are the top five countries in per capita income according to the International Monetary Fund: Luxemburg, Singapore, Ireland, Norway and Switzerland. With the exception of Norway, none of these countries are rich in natural resources. What they all have in common are; 1) a highly educated workforce, 2) cultural and racial cohesion, and 3) a strong sense of national identity. These are exactly the qualities that the United States has lost to multiculturalism and third world immigration in the space of a generation.
The questions before us are as obvious as they are unsearchable. Who did this to us? Where have our leaders been? Why didn’t they warn us? Why do our political leaders and cultural elitists prattle about the “greatest nation in history” and the “world’s richest country” when millions of Americans are homeless, the middle class is shrinking, and living standards are in decline? Free Speech has given way to the censorship of “hate speech” and career ending “cancel culture”.
On Independence Day 2025, the question is no longer ‘Can America be saved?’ The only question now is: Can anything be saved?
3 thoughts on “Independence Day: July 4, 2025 – David Stringer, Publisher”
These are hard truths—and 100% spot on. America’s leadership class has become multicultural and anti-Western. Our media and cultural institutions are run by race traitors who hate the people who created our culture and civilization. Only a few people like Trump speak out for working and middle class whites and traditional American culture.
Thank you for this eloquent and deeply insightful message.
We need to understand that there are powerful forces working against us. Some of the damage may be irreversible. We need to be thinking of a new America and a new political organization that protects our people and our heritage. I’m with you guys. I refuse to give up.
This is a remarkable piece of journalism—reverence for the past and a warning for the future. Can anything be saved? I think so. The first step in solving a problem is understanding what the problem is. Too much change too fast is socially destabilizing. America needs to understand its limits. Its time to pull back and respect our traditions.
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