The LEFT Hates America:
The Muslim Mayor Mamdani of NYC is banning gatherings of more than 20 people on the 4th of July. California is banning fireworks in the LBC on July 4th because they say it can harm the ocean. That is BS. I went to the LBC fireworks event several times. It was a hoot. You have boats all in the water watching the display. There were tons of people on the beach shooting off their own fireworks. It looked and sounded like a military beach raid.
Another thing, Long Beach has the dirtiest water of all the beaches in Southern California. Seal Beach and Huntington Beach to the south in the OC, and Redondo Beach, Venice Beach, and Del Rey to the north has clean blue water. The world surfing championships have been held in Huntington Beach. The reason the water us dirty in Long Beach is because that is the location of The Port Of Los Angeles.
They have break walls in the water to slow the waves for the ships. Therefore the water is stagnant. It doesn't move and what comes out of the ships along with whatever washes up stays there. No one surfs in Long Beach. They have no waves. However, the LEFT ignores that and simply want to pee on your party.
The LEFT doesn't want you to have fun. They hate America.
"We are going to fundamentally change America." ~ Barack Obama
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Why the Left Hates America: The War on Our Celebration
The book is nearly a quarter-century old, but Daniel J. Flynn’s polemic, *Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation's Greatness*, reads less like a time capsule and more like a prophetic playbook. Published in the wake of 9/11, Flynn’s thesis was blunt: a certain faction of the political Left, distinct from patriotic liberals, views the United States not as a flawed but noble experiment in liberty, but as an inherently corrupt, irredeemable force for global oppression. This "anti-American Left," as Flynn describes it, seeks to sabotage the very symbols of national unity and greatness. Two decades later, we aren't just seeing this play out in academic lecture halls or fringe protests. We are seeing it codified into public policy by the very people we elected.
Look no further than the Fourth of July, 2026. Independence Day, the commemoration of our nation’s birth, the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, is under active bureaucratic assault from coast to coast. In New York City and Long Beach, California, the message is clear: your patriotism is problematic.
The Mamdani Mandate: Silencing the Celebration in the Big Apple
In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has become the textbook example of the joyless scold Flynn warned us about. Under his administration, the public has been banned from attending the iconic Times Square ball drop on July 4th, a celebration of America's Semiquincentennial . The official justification often revolves around public safety logistics, but the pattern of hostility is undeniable. When New York City Council members from both parties proposed a ticker-tape parade for the Artemis II astronauts a unifying, uplifting celebration of American exceptionalism the council feared the Mayor would "throw a wet blanket" on the event, labeling him a “party-pooper”.
But the most staggering, and frankly un-American, policy is the reported ban on gatherings of more than 20 people on the 4th of July. Let that sink in. A nation founded on the principle that we the people can peaceably assemble is being told by a socialist mayor that you can’t gather with your neighbors to celebrate our founding because of a vague, weaponized concern for public order. This is freedom, but only in designated, pre-approved, bite-sized portions. It continues the post-COVID trend of using government mandates to atomize society, discourage community cohesion, and replace a shared national identity with isolated, manageable individuals. Why the Left hates America is because, to them, a spontaneous gathering of flag-waving patriots is a threat; a single-file, masked collective following a state-approved script is their idea of progress. Flynn argued that the Left is fine with dissent that serves its agenda but views American pride as an act of subversion. Mamdani is proving him right in real-time.
Long Beach’s Authoritarian Environmentalism: Dousing the Fire of Freedom
If New York represents the ideological war on patriotism, Long Beach, California, represents the bureaucratic one. The Golden State, where I’ve personally witnessed the glory of the "Big Bang on the Bay" fireworks show, is extinguishing a beloved tradition. The California Coastal Commission has effectively canceled the fireworks display, demanding a transition to drones because they allegedly have less environmental impact on the ocean .
This is pure, unadulterated humbug. The event organizer, John Morris, has presented a decade’s worth of water quality testing data showing no significant pollution or impact on wildlife from the fireworks . The environmental argument is a pretext. The truth, visible to anyone with eyes, is that Long Beach’s water quality issues stem from a far more mundane but massive source: the Port of Los Angeles. Environmental groups themselves are suing the port, alleging routine violations of the Clean Water Act, including the discharge of untreated wastewater, fecal bacteria, and copper into San Pedro Bay
The breakwater built for the port creates a stagnant pool where pollution concentrates, leaving Long Beach with the dirtiest water in Southern California, incapable of producing the clean, surfable waves found in Seal Beach or Huntington Beach, a city that hosts actual world surfing championships.
The Left ignores this elephant in the room because it’s inconvenient. The port is commerce. It’s unions. It’s a complex, entrenched economic machine. Fireworks, on the other hand, are just... people having fun. People being loud. People celebrating their country. I’ve been there. I’ve seen boats filling the bay, families on the sand, and a cacophony of unofficial fireworks that sounded like a military beach raid. It was chaotic, beautiful, and profoundly American. And the Left wants to stamp it out because, at its core, such a raw, unmediated display of patriotic, patriotic joy doesn’t just harm the ocean their flimsy argument it harms *their* narrative. They’re not protecting the planet; they’re peeing on your party. The cost to transition to a sterile, quiet, government-approved drone show balloons from $40,000 to $200,000, a prohibitive cost that ensures the tradition’s death .
A Nation Worth Defending from Its Own Elites
So why does the Left hate America? As Flynn detailed, it’s because they view our foundational principles individual liberty, free markets, national pride as inherently sinful. The actions of Mayor Mamdani and the California Coastal Commission are not isolated incidents; they are part of a systematic effort to deconstruct the joyful, communal, and often loud expressions of American identity. They don't have to burn the flag in the streets. They can simply regulate away the reason you want to wave it.
The effort to ban gatherings is the effort to ban fellowship. The effort to kill fireworks is the effort to kill a tradition that binds a community, replacing it with a litigious, fragmented, and fearful existence. Flynn wrote that the Left’s big lie is that America’s greatness is a myth. The real lie being exposed today is that their regulatory overreach is about safety or the environment. It’s about control. It’s the manifestation of an ideology that views your 4th of July cookout, your flag, and your local fireworks show not as a celebration of liberty, but as a problem to be solved. And that is why they ultimately hate America—because a people who know how to celebrate their freedom are a people who will never willingly surrender it.