JULY 2026 SULLYGRAM:  How long is a cosmic moment? Is there such a thing irrespective of one planet or another rotating next to a star? For sure, time is arbitrary and can only be measured relative to itself. But here on Earth, Jesus Christ’s birthday gets 24 hrs of celebration, ditto honoring soldiers who gave their lives for America, the Presidents are lumped into one day, while mothers and fathers also get one day; but then we have Pride Month. MONTH. Meanwhile, our 4^th of July is doomed to a one-day contentious birthday party with our radical Left pissing in the punch, if you don’t mind a clumsy metaphor for the Reflection Pool and all the 86-47s, and the “free Palestine from the river to the sea” graffiti and Nazi swastikas on the Lincoln Memorial. Maybe America’s birthday needs an official month. In fact, that month thing for Pride and all its iterations resonating through culture and sports prompts me to make a parity suggestion for our polarized national factions.

Instead of sniping, sabotage, treason and gridlock, perhaps the road to civility is better paved by dedicating each month to a different form of government. We can’t convert the mechanisms of governance each month, of course, but we can audition each for what it offers just like we audition Pride Month – big screen prime time, different flags, parades, T-shirts. Call it “America’s Got Tolerance.” We could keep July for our waning representative democracy, our constitutional federal republic. That’s one more day than the thirty days for Pride Month, but who’s counting? Then we have eleven more months for eleven more forms of government. Twelve shots ought to cover most of it.

August, for instance, could go to the Socialists who are scoring big-time wins with official Democrat Party endorsements for the mid-terms. It’s not just Left coast mega blue sanctuary cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, or Chicago and Minneapolis in the Midwest, or Mamdani now in New York City with his three successful Congressional candidates and 9 out of 10 wins overall. No reason for anyone to shake their heads in disbelief anymore. Generations of classroom indoctrination and cultural/media reinforcement are turning American elections Left even while Europe struggles to escape Socialism and floods of unmanaged immigration. Add South America to those who have learned the hard way about Socialism’s failed economics. That continent recently flipped eight Left-wing liberal governments to the conservative Right (Peru, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and trending in Bolivia and Venezuela). But here in the United States, Socialists are harnessing Democrat donkeys all over the map, including Party endorsements in Pennsylvania (Chris Rabb), Colorado (Melat Kiros), Florida (Oliver Larkin), the return of Cori Bush in Missouri etc. and wherever radical Progressives thrive. So, let’s give August to the Socialists. 

On to September! The jaws of Communism inevitably reap the harvests of creeping Socialism as they are unabashedly doing for our vocal radical Left, but before they clamp shut, they must first cut down free-market culture and Capitalism. So, maybe the month of September should coalesce around a bonified hater of all things American. The ever-increasing Squad in-House offers some possibilities as AOC may run for President, but Ilhan Omar’s alleged Somali fraud connections and marriage to her brother to gain entry may see her booted out of the U.S. However, I could imagine an upgrade for someone like Darializa Avila Chevalier who just won the Democrat primary in New York. She’s a shoe-in from a very blue Congressional district. Chevalier has called for abolishing police and prisons, and helped lead the Columbia University campus protests against Israel in a group that calls for “Death to America.” She also bragged in a Tweet that once when she couldn’t find a napkin, she wiped her hand on an American flag. Can’t hate America any more than that. And if that isn’t enough, far-out Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders campaigned for her. 

October? Lemme see, I’ve already penciled in America to celebrate its 250-year success story for July, but August and September inspire a third and final matured ideology for Progressive Liberals. Socialism, Communism and Marxism are a natural troika. In classic Marxism, Socialism is transitional to Communism (the ultimate collective where government owns everything). The terms are most often re-ordered in translation to the West, however. And so, I’ll suggest a smooth segue into theoretical Marxism last for October. In any order, we might as well let the radical Left have its three-month run up to the November elections, since the dominant Liberal media will do that anyway. How about Halloween hand-out month resurrecting Kamala Harris for Trick-or-Treat? Her father is the emeritus pillar of Marxism at Standford University, boasted by The Stanford Daily itself as “a radical Marxian economist.” And hallowed magazine The Economist (founded 1843) called him a “combative Marxist economist” and the model for Kamala’s frequent “word salads.”

I guess November’s mid-terms will write their own auto-bio, if the elections aren’t tainted. The first four months that I’ve suggested here pose an absolutely existential question mark as big as our Civil War in these times of radical drift. Hard to believe that the country whose Twin Towers came down on 9-11, elected a Muslim mayor to that same city a couple decades later. But then, freedom includes the freedom to surrender one’s freedom. Perhaps that explains why only 14% of Democrats say they are proud to be American while the number for Republicans is 70%. Meanwhile, visiting soccer fans from all over the world say they are awed by the U.S. and that their media lied to them.

Hence, here comes November with an outcome To Be Determined. The Halloween costume trifecta of Socialism-Communism-Marxism is hospice care for freedom and incentive-based free markets (e.g. no need for individuality, the government will take care of you like a social insect). Will we still be, as Benjamin Franklin answered Elizabeth Willing Powel when she asked what kind of government we had as he came out of Constitution Hall in 1787: “…a Republic, if you can keep it, Madam!” Or will we be into the grid-lock days marking an end to foundational America?

I leave the final eight months of the annual calendar to your discretion. Will our fate follow the likes of Elizabeth Warren’s endorsement of a Graham Platner? Will we be hijacked by the madness of antisemitism becoming a cancer of the soul as it did a century ago in Nazi Germany? Will AI slip seamlessly into control like a shadow in a coming night? Will an unassimilated theocracy step into the feckless vacuum of a society that can’t even define gender, crime or borders? Will UAPs (UFOs) reveal themselves as alien observers and conquer/unite [choose one] our species?

Your call.

…and that said, I post this as a single island on my single Timeline. Not inviting political discussions, partisan rants or TDS. You almost certainly have your narratives, and I’ll respect your opinions on your Timelines. Jump up and down there if you need to. And thanks to those who follow me here or off-channel. Finally, I’m posting July’s Sullygram early to more closely align with the 4^th of July. I’m going to a party. I understand you’re invited too, so maybe I’ll see you there. Hope you don’t blow out the candles. Hope you think objectively and carefully free of all the dominant media and make a wish. Happy Birthday!

Thomas "Sully" Sullivan