There must be some type of large scale lobotomization programs under way.
Edit: grilling and drinking and hanging with friends is not celebrating the holiday, it's just having a party.
Celebrating the 4th of July means like the lib bougie civic-minded patriots who buy little flags and wave them and shit and think about how great america is (these are the zombies I was talking about: the nerd ass people who are still generically patriotic but not fash/chuds in this current political environment). Then there are the fash/chuds who celebrate it because "murica #1" and "we kill the most people" and "we just outlawed roe vs wade" etc etc.
america is a MUCH more heavily propagandized society than that, come on. people know.