I hold a conservative/libertarian view and am a very patriotic American. I don't shy from that. Yet, some feel that I am what's wrong with America. Because I stand on my values and refuse to bend the knee to entitled leftists and globalists - Democrats AND Republicans - they would have the nerve to call me "deplorable/irredeemable," a "racist," a "white supremacist" or a "Nazi." Because I and others are labeled those things by people in the media, or by elected officials, there are those who reduce me to less than human. I am maligned as stupid, uneducated, a science denier, and even a domestic terrorist. As a result, they say I am fair game to be denied a right to earn a living, or in the extreme, that I deserve to be punished with physical violence , or even that I don't deserve to live. Because I hold an opinion different than theirs, I deserve this treatment.
What I am is an American, with a wife and children whom I love, and who love me. I am your neighbor. I am a veteran who gave 20+ years of my life to supporting and defending the Constitution, and to defending my fellow countrymen. I am part of a brotherhood with those I served in the military, whether I know them personally not.
What I am not is any of those superlatives that politicians, and the media, recklessly throw around to make me, and others, the bogeyman. It's all so that they can maintain their power.
Stop being manipulated those in high power. The vast, vast majority don't have your best interests at heart, especially those who have made a career of politics. Trusting any of them is madness.
We're all Americans. We have different opinions, but we're all Americans who have a lot more in common with each other than the caricatures that the miscreants in the halls of power paint us with.
