I want to be clear to everyone: questioning policies of our government is not being disloyal to that government. It is exercizing exactly what our founders desired but had to separate from England to establish: the right to free speech. We often interpret that to mean, well, everything, but the founders were considering the tyranny and oppresion of their government, so the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights to the constitution is the most important and those today questioning others patriotism based on questioning actions taken or not taken by our government is a discredit to those that wrote those famous words placed on paper in 1789.

No one should fear questioning, even to the point of opposing a policy or policies that they truly disagree with and no one else should be able to use anything other than reason or persuasion, attempting to change minds. It’s not unusual, especially online, to see soft threats of causing harm (not physical) to those that have opinions that may fall out of what many may call the mainstream. But if there’s a substantial enough opposition, what becomes mainstream? We all need to be able to gather information and come to the truth about whatever it is in question. That doesn’t imply subjective truth, which comes directly from a persons biased perspective, but objective truth.

We also need to understand that the media today is here to propagandize us and that’s their entire business (?) model. They don;t care about objective truth, just that we believe them over their competitors and what they publish daily is nothing more than what we’ve been calling infotainment for the last couple of decades (at least). all we can do is try to not let those that are probably less informed that we are, to help us make decisions that don’t affect them. Those we sarcastically call the elite will only be happy if we continue to let them make our decisions for us.