When the nation pauses for a few days to celebrate the 241st anniversary of our independence, it goes without saying all the fireworks these days aren’t in the sky. The “whish-bang-boom” of divisive politics echoes from the hall of government in Washington down to the vinyl booths at the neighborhood breakfast cafe. Some degree of dissension and discord has been part of our national scene since the Founding Fathers hammered out the Declaration and the Constitution, sometimes with their own angry invective close to today’s.