Proud supporter of the Constitution
To the editor:
I worked 42 years for the Department of Defense and held a top secret clearance supporting military operations and contingency planning worldwide. But now, I find myself being called an enemy of the state, a threat to democracy, a fascist and an insurrectionist because I am following the oath I took to the Constitution. That oath was not to an individual politician or political party. It transcends politics and pledges allegiance to the fundamental tenets of the Bill of Rights, The Constitution and the Republican form of government it established. That oath has no expiration date, it is a life -long commitment.
It is a mystery to me why the occupier of the oval office calls me a fascist because I wholeheartedly disagree with what he is doing to the Constitution to which I took that oath.
I am not a barbarian or troglodyte as liberals taint people who disagree with them. I hold an Master’s degree in Business Administration, a Master’s degree in National Security Strategy from the military war college and a PhD in Public Policy, but apparently my informed opinions and beliefs, based on experience and training, which disagrees with the democrat totalitarian orthodoxy of the Obama/Biden regime, makes me an enemy of the state and a fascist.
I would argue that most of my Democrat /liberal/progressive/neo communist detractors lack the level of experience and education that has allowed me to form rational cognitive positions, not political double speak spouted off by TV talking heads and gaslighting (lying) Democrat politicians.
So why is it that all of a sudden, I am a threat to national security? I guess it’s because Joe Biden, Obama, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett et al said so. And why did Joe Biden label me a threat to national security after 42 years of holding a security clearance? As with all totalitarians it is simply because I disagree with the collectivist, authoritarian policies and tactics of the Democrat party.
I am an enemy because I want to follow and defend the Constitution, the rule of law (including voting and border security) and make America the greatest country on earth, not the tarnished example of crime, violence and decay that decades of democrat rule and policies have devolved our cities into.
The First Amendment does not apply in Biden’s America. When critical of Democrat totalitarian policies, opposition to the neo communist Democrat theology becomes a crime to be stamped out by the coercive power of the state using DOJ, FBI, IRS and numerous other alphabet federal agencies to harass and persecute political opponents using complicit media as the cover for this behavior. Obama started this weaponization of government by using the IRS and Lois Lerner to stifle and destroy the conservative tea party movement. And now, Biden will hire an additional 87,000 armed IRS agents to come after Americans who disagree with Democrats and hired — yes Lois Lerner to hire, train and deploy them.
Totalitarians use the techniques of projection, transference, gaslighting, othering and scapegoating to dehumanize their political targets and condition their weak-minded sycophants to accept any form of atrocity against “the enemy.” What is frightening is the uniformity and vitriolic tone of the cries of fascist from all Democrats to demonize 71 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, questions the 2020 election, turning us from energy independent to energy dependent or borrowing trillions of dollars for ineffective Green New Deal handouts to crony Democrat-supporting capitalists and corporation.
That is exactly the tactics Hitler, Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and every dictator used to justify horrendous atrocities against those who they labeled as “enemies of the state.”
After decades of abandoning history and civics in the collectivist education system, much of America is in a media induced coma either not understanding or not caring that the real danger is not MAGA but the totalitarian DNA that has infected the Democrats in power.
MAGA is not evil and a threat to democracy, it is a set of principles grounded in the Bill of Rights and Constitution of the United States. The underlying principles of MAGA include “charity begins at home” by focusing on the problems in America, not being the piggy bank and police department for the rest of the world. Our infrastructure, culture, national debt and fractured political system are in jeopardy and need primary focus and attention yet we send billions of dollars and US troops to countries that hate us.
The tenets of MAGA are in the roots of “conservatism” which means to conserve the guiding principles in the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, our Constitutional Republic governance structure and the enumerated powers that restrict the type of out of control governance and taxation we see now.
MAGA, like the left elements ANTIFA/ BLM/Black Panthers etc. has its fringe elements which most who believe in America first, disavow any violence or use of force for political reason whether by fringe groups or government.
When we objectively look at an America first platform, we see things like adherence rule of law and equal application of law to all strata of society, not a two-tiered application for the politically connected elite and the rest of us or the catch-and-release of career criminals that have made urban centers unlivable, leading to mass exodus from many Democrat cities and states.
MAGA also believes in individual liberty and freedom, so laws and regulations that inhibit the guaranteed rights of individuals should be limited in scope. Most government rules that control our behavior are regulations promulgated by the various self-perpetuating government agencies.
MAGA stresses individual, professional and political responsibility and accountability. It believes in the Constitutional guarantees of individual liberty in which people choose courses of action. If you commit a crime, expect to be punished. If you choose to take out a loan for a worthless college degree, expect to pay it back. If a politician or government bureaucrat makes policy with negative outcomes, own it and take responsibility, not blame everybody else.
Dependency on government programs and largesse makes us susceptible to extortion and coercion. Government can simply say, comply, obey or have your benefits denied. With dependency comes servitude — whether it is dependency on other countries for critical material or on government for sustenance.
MAGA focuses on enforcing voting laws, not making it hard to vote and disenfranchising any group, but making it hard to cheat and ensuring the principles of being a citizen and identifying yourself as a registered voter. MAGA supports one citizen, one vote in the tradition of a Constitutional Republic.
MAGA focuses on border security. After 42 years of working in National Defense, open borders are the biggest threat we face. I watch the news and see millions of military aged males from countries run by criminal/government cartels and sworn enemies of the United States, being let loose into a country with already double digit millions of illegals and millions of accessible firearms. This year alone 2 million illegals have walked uninhibited across the border. An Army Division is about 10,000 members and there are 120 in active status. That means Biden has allowed over 200 army Divisions of possible hostile forces to enter the US. What reason could there be for that — use your head.
Perhaps open borders make rich liberals in safe suburbs feel virtuous, but it is a national security risk to anyone who can think beyond their liberal emotive state.
MAGA supports moms at school boards wanting to take back control of their kids’ education from “progressive” teacher unions and school boards who consider their children to be wards of the state. Remember, Hillary Clinton said it takes a village to raise our children, and that village is the government. Yet, these concerned parents are considered domestic terrorists by the government for wanting to diminish the governments total control over their children and indoctrinating them with their own personal view of the world. The government wants compliant procreators to have their children and turn them over to the indoctrination mills/neo communist madrassas we call the education system.
I taught at the University level for 10 years and saw the results of the lack of critical thinking skills and emotional fragility resulting from this system.
MAGA supports national self sufficiency and dominance in energy production, critical manufacturing capabilities, supply chains and not incurring $35 trillion in debt for programs that only benefit a few while the taxpayer pays the bill.
The behavior projected by Democrats on MAGA are the exact actions they that totalitarians have used such as divide and control (Biden labeling MAGA/racism behind every tree,) scapegoating and othering, intimidating/incarcerating political opponents, inciting violence in the streets with their militia (ANTIFA/BLM), destroying the economy and strengthening the coercive power of the state (87k armed IRS agents).
They are propelled and supported by a controlled and complicit media that lies (Russia hoax), hides (Hunter laptop) and displays such overt bias that anything they report should questioned.
I am not a fascist, enemy of the state or other terms used to discredit dissent and opposition by Democrat totalitarians. I am an American who took an oath to uphold the Constitution and an advocate of making and keeping America great and Joe Biden and his warped ideologues can kiss my patriotic butt!
Anthony Cosenza
Cape Coral