Oh man… not sure how to write this. Here it goes. January of this year, I did something I hadn’t done… ever. I gave Trump credit for doing something good. I gave him credit for keeping his promises to us in Western North Carolina. I could never have imagined the volume of hate and anger I received from doing something that was obviously the right thing to do. Just giving credit where credit was due. Saying thank you. Since that moment, I’ve learned a lot. I’ve learned that some of my liberal friends were never friends. They torched our friendship almost immediately… just for thanking Trump. I learned that many liberals seem to preach tolerance, but aren’t tolerant of conservative ideas AT ALL, it’s just an act to pretend to be moral. I learned that the greatest organizations in the world are churches… something that was genuinely UNTHINKABLE for me a year ago. I learned that the media just… lie. They lie constantly and without fear of being caught. I learned this lying comes from a bizarre sense of righteous morality that the lie, in the end, will achieve some good. I learned they cannot be trusted. I learned that I offloaded my own critical thinking to these organizations, and that many of the news “stories” I believed were true… never were. I learned what it means to be swatted. I learned what it’s like to have some crazed leftists send armed police to my home, with my kids in their beds, at 2AM claiming I had been shot and to break down the door. I learned that the only thing in the world that can change a persons mind is kindness is action… because that’s what changed mine. I learned that kindness is telling the truth, not protecting someone’s feelings. I learned that telling the truth is the most dangerous thing you can do, and that’s why free speech matters so much. I learned that free speech is never truly free… they will come after your entire life and try to destroy everything in it. …but it’s worth it It’s all been worth it.