Loyalty or Diamonds

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"Honesty is praised and left to shiver." - Juvenal

I have been at this for years. MagAmericans is over 3 years old and what progress have we made?

I have worked with a few different movements. Risking everything I have to push the mission forward. Through it all I have clutched tightly to my integrity and protected my reputation. I’ve given up quite a lot. Some of it was taken from me. Ripped from the builder’s hands. It taught me a lot. I am certainly not the same person I was when I entered into this arena. More on that later.

After all my efforts, sacrifices, and sleepless nights I was rewarded by being stabbed in the back by the people I trusted. Oath breakers who claimed to be something that they were not. Slandered, stole from, harassed, threatened, and lied about other people. Some even sabotaged the mission we were supposed to be working towards.

I was so confident that we were going to make a difference. I never realized it would be people within our own walls who would damage the organization beyond repair.

The emotional fallout of this betrayal can be intense and complex. I resisted burning them all to the ground. What good would it do? It may have been deserved, but it would only make me look bitter. What about the mission? Why did I ask myself that question when they didn’t? They didn’t consider the mission before their traitorous actions unfolded in a “private” signal chat. They only considered their mission. Now where is 1776RM? It could have been something if only the people within didn’t put themselves before the mission.

Looking back I wish I knew what I know now. However I am grateful for having learned much along this sometimes painful journey. I’ve learned a lot about people. I’ve also been fooled a few times. Most of the time I just trusted people that I shouldn’t have. I was involved for the restoration of God and country and the preservation of my son’s and daughter’s futures. I mistakenly assumed those were the same reasons other “patriots” were involved.

Anger is inevitable and I was bitter. I may still be. However I am not bitter about what people did to me. I am bitter about what they did to the movement. Just like The People’s Convoy before them, they damaged it for their own gain. Financial and otherwise.

Patriotism is not a business. Integrity is not a product to be sold.

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson

I cannot stand to watch people being swindled out of their money. Especially when they believe themselves to be supporting something honorable or even good. I’ve seen what these snake oil salesmen cameras show and I’ve seen what they don’t. I’ve watched as some of these fake people weave themselves a good image. All to cover their damaged and unrepentant reputations. Yet an image is like an Afghan blanket. There are always holes in them.

Sometimes I wonder if it is time to give up. What difference am I really making anyway? Am I only kidding myself? Sacrificing so much time for nothing? Should I put MagAmericans away and never open it again? Is this God’s will or mine?

Maybe it is time to separate myself from all of this nonsense. So few seem to be up to my standards anyway and I am not going to lower them. I know that the problem is not that I possess strong principles. The problem is that so many others do not.

It is the reason they attack me. It is also why their arrows never hit their target.

"The man who has no principle of right and wrong in himself, is a mere machine, moved by the will of others." – Thomas Jefferson

I have learned some lessons that sadden me. I’ve learned that there will always be opportunists creating spectacles that idiots flock to watch. Sideshows meant for profit, not for God or country.

I have learned that summer soldiers and sunshine patriots exist. Sadly, they are plentiful.

Trust is fragile. It can collapse in a heartbeat.

Communication is messy, but it is necessary. I’ve learned that we cannot use the programed stereotypes to validate our avoidance of hard discussions.

Loyalty is rarer than diamonds. Most people will put their interests first, even breaking oaths to achieve their own glory.

I have learned that I can take these feelings and experiences and use them to strengthen my resolve. Rather than letting my wounds fester into cynicism.

One thing I have not learned but rather been reminded of is that Americans are the greatest and most resilient people in the world. That as long as patriots are willing to fight, freedom will never die.

America is a divinely planted nation and we must defend it as such. We must be selfless rather than selfish.

I’ve learned. Now I must act.

Yesterday I was going to go film a protest being organized by a George Soros funded group called “Indivisible”. Not for nothing, it seems ironic to me that a group who creates and feeds off of division would name itself indivisible. I suppose that is their prerogative and not really the point but I thought it noteworthy.

It was supposed to be held outside of a restaurant in downtown Pittsburgh. When I arrived there was no one there. The protest was apparently cancelled. Quick research told me they were now attending a different event in Oakland, Pa. On the University of Pittsburgh campus. That was about 20 minutes away so I decided to drive over and check it out. Upon arriving I saw a group of about 50-75 people gathered around listening to a speaker.

I decided not to stop and continued driving. Making my way back home I was thinking a lot about it. Asking myself why didn’t I park and go over to the event? The only answer I could come up with is that I didn’t want to. That is really all it boils down to but I do have my reasons.

I believe in free speech. Everyone’s free speech. So I didn’t want to disrupt their event. Nor did I want to film other Americans who happen to be liberals, like I am filming animals at the zoo. There are already plenty of people out there who do that. You don’t have to go far to find a channel that seems to rely on those mindless antics. Usually because they have nothing else to offer.

I refuse to antagonize people for my content. It serves no purpose and it helps no cause. I am not interested in setting aside my rare days off to spend with people who hate me or to beg for donations. I speak against leftist tactics. I try not to use them.

I would rather talk to the other side. I want to see where we can find similar values or interests. We don’t have to agree to be able to have a conversation. We are all Americans and the majority of us want the same basic things. We tend to lose sight of that. It isn’t that liberals want higher crime rates. It is that they have been fooled by the lying media and politicians. Fooled by the doctored studies and procured polls. Followed by the outright lies telling them the lefts policies are correct. Most believe they are fighting for good; they have just been deceived.

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington

When we as conservatives engage with liberals, we don’t win by shouting the other side down. We win with our ideas, our policies, and the results they produce.

It is easy to give into fear, hate, and anger. These are powerful emotions. They help keep us safe and can become motivators that drive us. They can also, and often do, make us easier to control.

We must unite as patriots, and more importantly as God’s children to expel the traitors in movements and in governments, and even our social media feeds. We only have so much time in the day. We cannot afford to waste it on trees that bear no fruit.

Moving forward I am not sure what exactly the future holds for MagAmericans. However, I have no doubt that we will be in the fight. We have always been in the fight, seen and unseen. It is time to restore and stoke the fires that burn within.

I will never take the wide road. I prefer the narrow path. I will not sacrifice my principles for likes, clicks, views, donations, or anything else. I will continue to educate, activate, and motivate people to defend America as the divinely planted nation that it truly is.