COVID Jabs Equal Patriotism – Opinion

Something in a New Year’s Day article my friend and colleague Mike Miller wrote has stuck with me and really needs to be discussed more by those of us on the right — whether you consider yourself conservative, libertarian, polka dot, or whatever.

Yesterday, he said this:

Retired Gen. Steven M. Anderson waxed poetic during an appearance on CNN on Saturday, blasting Trump supporters in the U.S. military as “a threat from within.” It gets far crazier — read on.

During a segment with CNN’s Pamela Brown about 2024, Anderson blasted Donald Trump supporters in the military and advised that they stop listening to MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell about the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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[Anderson continued]: “[The supporters] haven’t been found out, and they’ve grown in power, through perhaps inaction on the parts of some of our key leaders.” [Delusional, much?]

“What we can do now, identify those people, get them out of our ranks, and train the rest of the force on civics 101, about how our country is supposed to work, how elections work.”

Mike laid on the sarcasm at this point, telling Anderson that was “cool,” and suggesting it be known as “The Great Purge or the Great Terror 2.0.”

This is great. And, in this case, of course, the thoughtcrime is service members falling in with ‘the Pillow Guy’ and the evil Orange Man Bad in any way.

But there’s a larger issue this points to: the left’s insistence that These are some ideas, beliefs different from theirs make all Americans — not just those in the military — dangerous to others. These radical progressives are essentially saying they’re dangerous to the authoritarian form of government.

Can there be anything worse in a nation with a Bill of Rights, last I checked? The answer to that question is, indeed.

The Leftists just gave a pre-made example for both of these points, which they find helpful.

Take a look at this tweet by an L.A. pr. consultant (whose bio proudly boasts he’s “BLOCKED BY FRANK STALLONE” for some reason)

It is patriotic to be vaccinated

Please pass it along. https://t.co/oaerYn021z

— Eric Schmeltzer 🇺🇸 (@JustSchmeltzer) January 1, 2022

This behavior is reminiscent of a lemming.

You are no different than a brain-numbed zombie in one simple way. https://t.co/uxwkuQrkHA

— Becca Lower (@BeccaJLower) January 2, 2022

Where did that naive idea come from? begin? My answer was in a matter of seconds. And you won’t be too surprised by it. This was started with a Democrat who’s running for office. Marcus Flowers (R) is actually running to take over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat in Georgia. As you may have read earlier, Greene’s Twitters account has just been permanently banned by the ostensible social media site. I’m surprised the retired general didn’t call her a demon or something in his rant. Perhaps he didn’t remember to.

Anyway, no biggie. People, guess what? Flowers’ Twitters bio tells us he’s not only a “Proud Army Veteran,” but a “Patriot“!  That makes his attempt at groupthink acceptable. (/sarc)

Let’s get one thing settled: it’s neither more nor less patriotic to get the vaccine job. Is it ‘patriotic’ to get treatment for any other ailment — for example, an upper respiratory infection? Is it honoring our nation’s fallen and what they represent in safeguarding our freedoms to get a series of radiation treatments, after your doctor diagnoses you with cancer, or would their advising some other types of treatment be unpatriotic instead?

Beyond that, stating that Americans’ political beliefs or how they choose to respond to health advice from unelected government bureaucrats like Dr. Anthony Fauci makes them more or less patriotic is a blatant slap in the face to anyone who’s ever put on a uniform to defend our country. How dare anyone try to put a restriction on who is fit for service based on deeply held political convictions?

How absurd is that kind of cult when people consider their medical choices to either be supportive or hostile towards the United States? By now, you have to wonder whether they even hear themselves with this crap — because it sounds ridiculous to anyone with a lick of sense.