The 250 celebrations locally are underway, a faint shadows of the bunting and bands of the hundredth and the televised two-hundredth. Of course, it's the celebration of declaring that the states are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, which they're not anymore, since after confederation, the people in the states ceded sovereignty to the Republic in 1789.
But songs, unlike printed words, can't be disputed. One merely doesn't sing along, and remembers with gratitude the fact of the Republic.