In 1993, I stood in front of someone and swore my oath of enlistment. I'd joined the United States Navy and vowed then and there to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
During my time in Uncle Sam's Yacht Club, I was never called upon to defend against foreign enemies. However, now that I'm in civilian life, I keep finding myself needing to defend us from domestic enemies.
We call them the Democratic Party, unfortunately.
In recent weeks, the insanity has reached a fevered pace. We've got everything from former presidents calling for the regulation of what people say to some reality TV personality from Bravo threatening literally everyone who isn't as rabidly leftist as she is. We've got a sizeable chunk of the Democrats' base threatening to loot if they don't get their free food money they did nothing to deserve from the government, even.
This follows weeks of celebration of the assassination of Charlie Kirk and generations of pushing to restrict our ability to resist a tyrannical government.
And yet, they try to present themselves as the people who can be trusted with the reins of power?
Let's not even get into their own calls for "lowering the temperature" on rhetoric after Kirk was killed, which weren't even directed toward their own side, but toward us.
These are not people interested in being our countrymen and women. They see us as scum that they must purge from society through whatever means available to them or, at a minimum, who must be suppressed into silence.
What else was cancel culture but an attempt to make everyone too afraid to say what they really wanted to say?
Now, it's violence. They want us scared, not for our livelihoods this time, but for our very lives.
Reality stars on C-tier cable networks are more than willing to talk big on "going after" anyone who thinks violence isn't the answer without any pushback from others on the Left, likely because they agree with her.
I don't want to see violence from either side. I'd rather we battle things out with ideas and words than bullets and bombs.
But I won't pretend that the people who want me dead are anything but my enemies. More than that, considering the direction the Democratic Party is going, even their own base is likely to be viewed as enemies at some point or another, simply because they're not willing to completely destroy the country from within.
They are the enemies of not just conservatives or libertarians. They're the enemies of the American people.
Simply put, we need to not just defeat them in elections, but we need to dismantle the entire governmental infrastructure they want control of so that they can put the screws to hardworking Americans who simply want to be left alone in peace. Take it apart, and they're powerless no matter what they want to do.
Don't, and they'll just keep building it up until no one can stop it from destroying the greatest nation in history.
It doesn't seem like a hard choice now, does it?