I'm glad that you got a chance to watch that excellent John Adams quasi-documentary, and get somewhat up to speed, but you still need to brush up, some.
01 ~ Sorry, but despite you disturbingly ridiculous declarations, you don't know any better than I what the Founding Fathers would think of my statement.
02 ~ And as they were well-educated men,
it should be obvious that while they'd agree that July 2nd was the day that they signed the Declaration of Independence and July 4th the day that they published it, it wasn't until September 3rd, 1783 that they
achieved it.
03 ~ Turns out: The Colonies actually had to fight a War of Independence in order to
achieve Independence. Crazy, but true.
Britain's reaction to our declaration wasn't to send a congratulatory bottle of Scotch, but to send troops to shoot at us.
Quite
rude, really.
I'm obviously fully aware that Rebels that win their Independence don't generally celebrate the day that the Treaty recognizing their Independence was signed.
They celebrate the day they
declared Independence...because that's an incredibly vital, important, emotional day. I'm only pointing out that the day that you declare Independence isn't necessarily the day that you
achieve Independence...if you achieve it at
all.
Otherwise, the Dixie States ~ Texas,
twice!! ~ would be "independent", which they're not, as would be every group of rebels that ever declared "independence."
If it wasn't for Generals
Nathanael Greene and
Daniel Morgan saving the War, we probably wouldn't even be in a position to
have this debate.