It is all too easy to label someone as evil or an enemy and forget what you are fighting for. "Fighting the enemy" is, at best, a zero-sum game, and at worst, a battle that can only produce losers.

Sheepdogs owned by con artists, from the right or left, incite and instigate the sheep. Only those that can escape outside the ideological ranch can become wild.

There are probably patriots on the left as well. There are also patriots on the right. There are also patriots in the middle.

But only those on the outside are free.

As long as you are on the inside, you may be a patriot, but you are a traitor to freedom.