Moonbat Andrew Belonsky wants to spoil everyone's Independence Day

I hope everybody is having a wonderful 4th of July week. However, there is someone on the left who's opportunistically attacked it. That would be Andrew Belonsky, one of the crudest writers for the rabid Death & Taxes site, who's written an ambiguous article where he says:

Millions of Americans at home and abroad will celebrate Independence Day come Monday, the fourth of July. That doesn’t mean, however, that fourth of July is actually Independence Day. Or that it should be.

Ugh. This man is so shameless with the starting line, and doesn't get much better as it goes on. While it's true that the declaration of independence from Britain was on the 2nd, and the first celebration was a week after, Belonsky seems more intent on attacking the celebration, and goes on to say:

Even back in the revolutionary days, when the colonies were still euphoric over the news, Independence Day was an arbitrary affair, being celebrated willy-nilly with no unified plan: in 1779, for example, the 4th was on a Sunday, and the burgeoning nation celebrated on the 5th of July, not the 4th we all hold near and dear.

That’s because, unlike today, the revolutionaries weren’t bogged down by the Declaration. They were celebrating not the act of independence, but the idea.

I don't comprehend this. It sounds to me more like he's distorting everything, to sound more as though Americans shouldn't respect the laws created to help declare their independence from Britain. What is he saying, that nobody even appreciated George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who went on to become America's first presidents?

And after presenting the writings of Pauline Maier, he says that she:

...provides a road map for how we should treat Independence Day in the 21st Century: it’s not simply that we declared our freedom from colonial rule, it’s that we created an entirely new system of government, one that has inspired liberation struggles from the French Revolution to the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa to this year’s Arab Spring.

Independence Day isn’t simply about us, the United States, but about universal ideals that should be celebrated on a daily basis, not simply the fourth of July.

Okay, when he starts using the "Arab spring" as a comparison, that's when he stumbles. Because the one in Egypt, if anywhere, is not so much a wish for independence if all that results is the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has recently been working on anti-semitic films too (via Europe News). And with savages like these in Egypt, how can they truly be springing if they hang onto those backwards ways?

And is he suggesting some kind of multi-culti alternative to the 4th?!? If he is, it figures someone like him would be so shameless to suggest America's Independence Day should be "merged" with everything else instead of being able to stand on its own. All that would do is take away all meaning, and nobody would know where certain positive ideals came from.

It's a real shame, but no surprise, that there are some leftists out there who'd try to shamelessly and subtly spoil everything, but that's the way the left has become today.

Update: Lee Edwards on Big Peace asks why liberals detest the holiday.