Twenty-two years ago two towers came down, and our worst fears were built upon the rubble. We began to focus on the monsters at our doorstep. They were an easy target – angry, irrational terrorists driven by perverse religious and authoritarian motivations. America was founded on defeating those monsters. It was a battle that felt familiar.

But while we were focusing on the monsters at the doorstep, we turned our backs on the monsters in our midst. Our homegrown authoritarians. The marxists and the entitled creeps who think history started the day they were born. These monsters are the worst kind, because they don’t announce themselves. They hide behind identity labels. Their motives are obscured by the positions they hold in our society, positions we traditionally respect and so rarely question – teacher, doctor, journalist. While we looked away to things we deemed more threatening, they slowly began taking over the institutions we counted on for stability. They perverted our history and began teaching our children to hate this country, or least be suspicious of all the blessings that reside within. They monetized science, paving the way for information cronyism. Any conclusion, no matter how untrue or unscientific, is for sale in the research industry these days.They monopolized the media and censored our information. While we still exhibited strength in physical conflict, the collective mind of America became weak. Our minds and our souls began to starve. The monsters within picked at our deteriorating frames. We didn’t see them, because they were us.