TRAITORS TO THE NATION

Regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, religion, income, and lifestyle, and most importantly, regardless of political party or belief, the revelations surrounding the "Houthi PC Small Group" Signal messages published by The Atlantic must be a watershed moment for every law-abiding citizen of the United States of America.

I am attaching links to both articles below in case anyone has not read them both directly, in their entirety. Please do so before reading the rest of this post.

The shambolic incompetence and ineptitude revealed via this incident, coupled with the dishonestly and immorality demonstrated in its wake, are mind-boggling.

I'm quite sure I have many friends, family, and work colleagues who voted for Donald Trump. Hell, over half the country voted for him.

I did not, but I do not blame anyone who did. Nor do I agree with the inflammatory, divisive rhetoric and conditional statements that come from the opposite side. (“If you support Trump, then you are a Nazi / racist / homophobe / misogynist” and so on.)

This does nothing to make anyone reconsider their views, and does a lot to fracture our nation further. I’m not a fan of identity politics on either side of the aisle. I believe the left has done just as much to divide our nation as the right has.

We are all Americans. Full stop.

I even agree with the Trump Administration's stance on some issues. I personally vote on a few key policy areas, namely the environment, healthcare, a progressive tax rate, and foreign policy, which led me to cast my vote for Kamala Harris in the last presidential election, and have made me generally supportive of candidates left of center during my adult life.

(Specifically in Donald Trump's case, I would never have voted for him on basis of character and competency, so his policies were irrelevant.)

But in summary, I may not agree with Trump voters on many issues, but I accept and respect that other American citizens hold different views than I about the direction our country should take, and believe this is part of what has made our nation great.

I am even willing to accept and respect (although this is harder for me to stomach) that other American citizens have vastly different beliefs than I about the role our nation should play in the world at large, and the obligation we do or do not have to behave honorably and in defense of freedom, democracy, and morality on the international stage.

I will stand by these statements, firmly.

What I am not willing to accept is that our government officials do not have an obligation to:

1) Do their utmost to ensure American national security.

2) Tell the truth to the American people, particularly when testifying under oath before Congress.

So I will also stand by what I am about to write, firmly.

If you have read both articles published in The Atlantic—the initial break and the follow-up with the full chat transcript—and listened to the subsequent Congressional hearings during which multiple cabinet members blatantly lied under oath, and you are not demanding for the immediate resignation and prosecution of those involved, then you are a traitor to the United States of America, sitting somewhere on the spectrum between rat bastard and drooling imbecile.

You are choosing party and man over country.

If January 6 wasn’t the disqualifying line in the sand for you, fine. But this has to be it. This must be it.

Wake up.