Since the inauguration of President Donald Trump in 2020, the term ‘patriot’ has been used and too often misused by incorrectly comparing it to its dictionary synonym: ‘nationalism.’
These words have been employed to weaponize the term ‘democracy’ and further polarize the United States government parties, into a dizzying plethora of managed principles which bear no resemblance to our basic and natural ideals.
A patriot is someone who loves and supports their country of lineage or adopted residence, often exemplified by actions that benefit their community and the nation’s people.
A nationalist is said to be someone who not only loves their country of lineage or adopted residence, but who also prioritize their interests above all others. This term can be considered negative at times, because it can involve an aggressive stance towards other nations or groups within the country. This is certainly the case, as history has taught us, when this term is accompanied by ‘socialism’ or communism’ next to it, in political terminology.
We can deduce that both terms basically mean the same thing, however, they have been skewed for political means to polarize our country instead of unifying our nation.
The United States of America was founded on three key ideals: liberty, equality and justice. These principles combine to shine like a beacon, a gateway for so many that have been persecuted in their own homelands for violating and battling the very opposite these systems upheld: imprisonment, discrimination and abuse. Our country is often described as a cultural mosaic, a form of multiculturalism where various ethnic groups, languages and cultures coexist and contribute to the richness of our society. Our diverse amalgamation emphasizes the preservation of individual cultural identities, while fostering a cooperative community of free thinkers. These are the threads that create the net of our society and shine in the fabric of our intertwined lineages.
Our constitution was created to be the building block for a democracy that would represent the inclusive rights of everyone that lives on this land. It was meant to allow each person to voice their opinions, discuss and debate whatever issues relevant to their lives and surroundings. It was never meant to coerce, manipulate or subdue anyone into succumbing to a programmed popular choice by means of threats, degradation or unlawful injury.
Our core beliefs have been so badly influenced by interwoven messages subtly affecting our daily lives, that most of us have difficulties noticing their slow and constant strangulations. The mainstream media has played the largest role in influencing our cognitive abilities, by using emotional triggers and repetitive stances for us to unknowingly accept and comply. Confusion and chaos have been effective and heartless tools in pushing the degradation of our very souls and coercing us into submission, rendering us into a false and very dangerous version of their ‘peace of mind’.
If we look at the history of our government and how it came to be, we can understand the effective and respectful system that was put into place for ‘the people’s voice’ to be the deciding choice in how our country is administered. I say ‘administered’ because that is what our government calls itself and should be…The Administration. It was never created to manipulate, intimidate or bully people into thinking ‘their way’ for votes to get them elected and re-elected to the most supreme offices of the land. The United States of America Government WORKS FOR THE PEOPLE and BY THE PEOPLE, no one else. Many of us have lost sight of this because we have trusted them for too long to do the right thing for all of us.
Words are powerful and they can be weaponized to skew the masses. They can also confuse the individual who, rather than question, follows along with a popular-trending topic. The word ‘patriot’ elicits a military person who has fought for his or her country. They are staunch defenders of their country and fellow compatriots, and they also usually have a common allegiance and respect for those defending their own countries.
Unfortunately, this term was monopolized by different self-gratifying movements during the first Trump administration. Qanon was one of them. The letter Q alludes to someone with special government access and ‘Anon’ is an anonymous or pseudonymous internet poster. This group considers itself to be a decentralized far-right USA political conspiracy political movement. It attached itself to the ideals which US Republicans ran on and decided to represent, but Q became the judge, jury and executioner for whatever they considered to be violation of rights in the USA and abroad.
It emerged in October of 2017 on a browser named 4chan (later 8chan), when it began posting messages about taking down the ‘Deep State’ operating within the US government. Average US citizens that were already feeling uneasy about the direction the US was taking, swarmed the site and began doing their own research. When COVID-19 locked everyone down, many of us began doing our own investigations into various confusing topics, which we could not find satisfying or logical answers to from the mainstream media. Q used its platform to ramp up this curiosity and gain millions of followers.
I am not disputing the validity of many of the stories which Q pretended to have inside intel on. However, I am very conscious of the tactics it employed to harness our vulnerabilities for nefarious agendas. It harmed us much more than it helped many of us regain our abilities to voice our concerns in any useful way. This was the epitome of ‘bread and circus’, as seen in Roman times. Deviate with breadcrumbs thrown to the masses and erect a circus to create a superficial appeasement to distract from vital issues. Promises were made that were never followed through on. Instead, another ‘drop’ would appear and a frenzy to incriminate would ensue. Q never focused on their follower’s ability to change things, it hooked them in by supplying its very own version of IT crack to prod and motivate them to violent verbal (sometimes physical) altercations.
The brave souls dedicated to uncovering disclosure events were too often ignored (many still are), ridiculed or shut down. This made the seeking of valid truths almost impossible to decipher. On a positive note, many of us began to research on a daily basis. We began to question more, look within ourselves and our histories to find the sources of our unease in the world.
Today in 2025, the word ‘patriot’ is being cleared of its unnatural leeches. It stands proudly once again for what it fought so hard to represent: freedom.
The word ‘nationalist’ is taking a harder hit these days. Nationalism tends to flavor its meaning depending on who champions and shapes it. The US Democrats are famous for branding themselves as ‘cultural nationalists’, by preserving the American cultural nation. Nationalism has been synonymous to patriotism, but both have been used to feed and uphold specific political orders. The fundamental principal of nationalism is the same as patriotism, the first just gets ‘wordier’. The problem with nationalism lies in its echoes of possible socialism and a potential communist evolution.
Now we arrive in 2025, President Trump is in office again, and he is being called an ‘elite nationalist’ by the liberal Democrats, who once stood proudly on the same term. Words are powerful, meanings are too often lost in the translation of the author’s intent. The average person is left reeling after hearing debates that use weaponized words to sway them. The original topic, the vital attractor to the debate, is lost in chaotic aggressions to acquire a term and wear it like a badge of honor.
In the USA we live in a representative democracy, which means that we, the people, choose elected governing officials to govern on our behalf through applied majority rule. The officials we vote for are those that are supposed to reflect our core values. Our system is not perfect, but its core is meant to represent fairness and equality. Unfortunately, our present system is corrupt and highly divisive. Our last commander-in-chief left a deep scar in our nation, one that will take time to heal and recover from.
Former President Joe Biden brought us to our knees over the past four years and was barely conscious during most of his presidency. His legacy will be remembered as the most disastrous presidency on every level: social, military, financial and economic. The Democrat Nationalists that boasted so proudly to represent our multi-cultural nation have been left with non-existent borders, thousands left homeless with little to no aid, an inexplicable gender war, numerous financial scandals, newly scripted and incomprehensible overseas wars, and a dizzying level of hypocrisy. The proud ‘nationalist’ term has been turned into weaponizing President Trump by describing him as an elitist, that cares only for himself.
Since President Trump took office, he has already signed numerous executive orders to help us rescind so many disastrous orders made by the previous administration. These range from issues concerning our border, removing thousands of illegal immigrants, re-enforcing immigration protocol into the US, removing troves of financial aid packages provided to illegal immigrants and relevant services, disengaging from costly international organizations such as the Paris Climate Agreement and the WHO, reviewing trade agreements with various countries like China, sending military aid to California, repealing the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) directive affecting our nation’s education, military and workforce systems, and now the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is uncovering a mind-boggling amount of US funds earmarked for ridiculous and wasteful reasons. These orders are re-shaping our nation and its ability to defend itself once again. That’s not selfish or elitist, it is common sense.
The most controversial issue has been the immigration dilemma we faced during Biden’s fateful presidency. We have been observers of a political immigration policy ping pong match since President Trump took office in January 2017. This issue has a long-standing history, one that must be explained for us to understand why we are where we are today…
Since its founding, the US had mostly open borders, welcoming immigrants from across the world to work and build their lives here. In the late 1800s, immigrants mostly originated from Italy, Greece, Central and Eastern Europe. In 1924, congress passed a quota legislation restricting immigration, which limited entry into the US to 2% of the total number of people of each nationality, based on the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia. This law dominated US immigration policy until the 1960s.
On October 3rd, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, in New York. It abolished the National Origins Quota Formula, passed in 1924. It was seen as a way to address racially discriminating immigration laws. Asian, Southern and Eastern Europeans, and others were now welcome to freely immigrate lawfully to the US.
This legislation still had annual caps, or quotas, except for family members of naturalized US citizens. Immigration soared and over time, family reunification became the largest type of legal migration to the US.
The Bracero Program was used during World War II to hire millions of temporary agricultural workers from Mexico, until it expired in 1964. Those workers continued to cross the southern border, which started the rise of illegal immigration.
In an attempt to help legalize these immigrants, President Reagan passed a legislation in 1986, that granted a pathway to citizenship for close to 3 million undocumented immigrants. This was supposed to motivate potential immigrants to go through the proper channels and dissuade them from illegally crossing the US border.
President Clinton and George W. Bush Bush endorsed proposals to reform the US immigration system, but these fell short and were never passed.
Two camps began opposing each other, creating the indelible ink that would be used to divide our nation today. The corporate right was worried about a reduction in the work force, which could potentially affect their bottom lines. Leftist non-profits and advocacy groups promoted more immigration as a reflection of our societal openness and generosity. These groups defined the Republican party (corporate right) and the Democratic Party (leftist non-profit and advocacy groups). Both were pro-immigration, for very different reasons. Immigrant crime and financial aid were not prominent at that time, therefore not a strong politically influential factor. Both parties wanted the same thing, but somehow this issue became a tool used to divide us instead of unifying our bi-partisan democracy. It was a subtle, but very effective assault on our alliance and the beginning of many more cracks that would lead us to a catastrophic political earthquake.
Our ‘nationalism’ and ‘patriotism’ began to crack and falter under the weight of political gain. Congress failed again to pass any bi-partisan reform bills proposed under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Under Obama, deportations soared to 400,000 in 2013. He was given the name ‘deporter in chief’. He campaigned on stricter immigration rules to lower crime and direct financial resources within the country, where legal citizens would benefit. Obama’s stance was very clear about illegal immigrants during his presidency. His hypocrisy would later shine during his 2024 endorsement speeches for Joe Biden. It’s always about the selfish power gained through our votes and never about what is best for our country.
By 2016, the situation at the border began to transform. The number of immigrants from Mexico declined, but those arriving from Central America drastically increased. Many of these immigrants surrendered to border control and claimed asylum. Under US law, anyone who claims asylum is entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge, and they cannot be deported. Many of these immigrants had valid claims due to dire circumstances in their country of origin, such as extreme poverty, crime and government corruption. Because of immigration court backlogs, this process could take years, but these asylees were allowed to live and work in the US, until their cases were heard.
Smugglers seized this opportunity and began coaching immigrants to make asylum claims, many times false ones. Our government’s inability to fund our immigration courts to handle all these claims, created a magnet that drew more people to ask for asylum here.
During the political war ensuing over immigration during the 2024 election debacle, the Obamas, Clintons and various entertainment figures came out to support then president-elect Joe Biden, once again. But this time, with a very different message. Immigration is good, democratic and soul saving. The hypocrisy was monumental and deafening.
In 2019, then President Trump enacted Title 42, which denied entry to asylum seekers under the justification of the COVID-19 pandemic. He made wide ranging changes to many other asylum procedures during his first presidency from 2016 – 2020.
Past President Biden reversed many of those policies and the largest historical surge of immigration began. To date, the annual net immigration under his presidency netted 2.4 million per year, both legal and illegal. That’s close to 10 million immigrants. If he had stayed in office, there is no question that this would have continued, and that number would most probably have doubled.
President Trump has kept is promise by prioritizing the deportation of undocumented migrants that are deemed a national security and a public safety threat. The sceptics cried out that only the low hanging fruit would be deported, and the hardened criminals could not be found and sent home.
More than 7,300 illegal immigrants were arrested across the country in the first week of January. Illegal border crossings on the US Mexican border have dramatically dropped – in the Texas Del Rio sector, which regularly saw 4,000 daily crossings, found just 60 people who were caught trying to get through.
Both Democrats and Republicans fought for immigration in the early 1900s, for very different reasons. Bipartisan solutions were common, and our system stood for the common good and a free democracy. This system has been weaponized to slowly divide our country into archrivals, by psychopathic leaders.
Most Americans understand the fundamental differences between the Democrats and Republicans. Democrats are left-leaning liberals and support a larger government role in economic issues, backing regulations and social welfare programs. They also tend to advocate for civil rights of ethnic and religious minorities, support environmental protection, and favor stricter gun laws and less strict immigration policies. Republicans are conservative right-leaning, and they prefer a smaller government that is less involved in the economy. They support reduced taxes, conservative social policies, fewer government regulations and social programs, a strong national defense and a more stringent approach to immigration.
The roots of these parties were very different at their inception. During the 19th century, the Democrats supported ‘tolerated slavery’ and it opposed civil rights reforms after the American Civil War, to retain the support of the Southern voters. It was all about the votes.
The 19th century Republican party opposed the extension of slavery into western territories, it fought to protect the civil rights of African Americans after the Civil War and it favored smaller government intervention, less regulation, and lower taxes.
The biggest difference today is the way these two parties work with each other. They don’t, period. Both have valid platforms and real-time issues affecting US citizens. What changed? The very real and prominent agenda to divide and conquer us through nefarious means. The most recent example is evident in the re-defining of two synonyms, to seemingly oppose each other: Nationalism and Patriotism.
Many confuse the words democracy and democrat and believe these to be synonymous. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every single US citizen lives in what we believe to be a democracy: a government by the people, represented directly or through elected representatives. The common people are considered as the primary source of political power. The political parties have their own platforms, and we are the deciding factor that elects our chosen candidate.
When one party is elected to office, they are supposed to work in a bi-partisan approach to promote and carry out legislation for the well-being of the nation. What we see only too often is in-fighting, political grandstanding, scandals, lies, deceit and illegal activities gone unpunished. Most of the time we feel helpless and almost mesmerized by the show in front of us. We must be willing to become more involved in deciding who represents us in our towns, counties, states and country and hold these representatives accountable for their choices to represent us. We are never void of choice and we never have to comply with any decision that we do not agree with or do not understand. We hold the power to choose, to change and to reassess. Our politicians should be the reflection of that majority choice, never their hidden agendas. We must have the courage to stand up for what we believe in and hold these politicians accountable for their crimes by calling them out, refusing to comply, bringing them to justice and by electing someone else.
That beacon of light that is supposed to represent us all and reflect our core values to the planet is in chaos. But we are not the only ones suffering this unjust reality, other countries have at their helm their own versions of atrocious leaders with reprehensible plans. President Trump is making strong and steady progress to strengthen the USA once again. This very well could be referred to as ‘draining the swamp’.
Our Vice-President JD Vance just made a very bold speech in front of the European leaders, in Munich. He pointed out the internal threats looming in these countries to be the greatest dangers to European democracy, rather than those holding media outlets hostage over stories related to Russia. He pointed out the mass immigration issues facing them as well and had valid evidence of recent terror acts in their own countries, linked to this worldwide issue. VP Vance spoke of rights of freedom of speech that were being undermined all over Europe, the cancelling of elections and questioned European officials approach to electoral integrity. He also spoke of disinformation and misinformation, but not in the context of ‘conspiracy theories’, as these terms are so often linked. He provoked his listeners to face their tactics used on their own countrymen and women, to hide ‘old, entrenched interests against viewpoints that might express a different opinion’. His speech stood for the citizens of the US today, which is made up of those who didn’t have a voice in their homeland and decided to immigrate and live in one which would respect and uphold the very freedom of speech criminalized in theirs. Needless to say, many describe the reception of this speech to have fallen on stony-faced participants with their mouths wide open in shock and disdain.
The word ‘peace’ is also being thrown around a lot right now and if you are perceptive to the belligerent forces behind the worldwide forces fighting to keep us all divided, you will notice the word play here. Our ‘peace’ is their ‘piece’ of something they want to control. Some government officials are now saying that peace could be dangerous, depending on how it is initiated and managed. Russia is still the bad guy and anything it ‘gets’ through peace talks is considered as negative. Who is deciding that? Former President Biden helped to push the hostilities between Ukraine and Russia to a full-blown war, by assuring Ukraine that their NATO membership was a possibility. The story behind the Ukraine-Russia hostilities is long and arduous, but the battle we are all involved in with them today is very real and dangerous. The Biden administration sent $591.1 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, since the war began in 2022. The US gains nothing by involving itself in this war, but it certainly divides us into ‘pieces’ of the world that can be controlled, monitored and influenced. The average human has not had a voice in these decisions, but speaking out against them has resulted in being called a fascist, nazi or racist. Here again, words are powerful. More of us are realizing the games being played with our livelihoods and we are choosing a different path. These weaponized words fall short now and they will no longer be tolerated.
The bread and circus show is leaving town and we can all rejoice in this hope and determination restored. This will take time, but we are turning the corner to a better and brighter future on this planet. The tide is turning and those unwilling to fight for their lives, homes, freedom and humanity will be swept away by the current of well-deserved justice.
We have a long and arduous battle ahead, but we also have a strong and determined army of well-intentioned beings helping us to remember and rediscover our under-flourished potentials. There is no more room for deceit, cruelty or intimidation. It’s time for all of us to continue searching for truths that have been artificially buried for too long and keep moving forward towards our own naturally authentic peace.
Words are powerful, let us be the driving force behind that power and choose the highest potential for all of humanity that defines them.
-Super Sleuth
