The Inner Monologue

There is a dangerous myth circulating in the United States: that resisting authoritarianism is somehow patriotic. This idea is not only wrong—it is profoundly un-American.

True Americans do not resist their government.
True Americans submit.

Let us begin with first principles.

America is a nation founded on trust. Not mutual trust, of course—just trust flowing in one direction, upward, toward authority. The Founders themselves famously believed that governments work best when citizens stop asking questions, stop reading footnotes, and most importantly, stop remembering inconvenient quotations attributed to the Founders themselves.

The modern American understands this.

A true American knows that freedom is not the absence of control, but the relief of no longer having to think.

Obedience Is Patriotism, With Fewer Steps

Some claim that skepticism of power is healthy in a democracy. This is a naïve, almost European way of thinking.

In reality, questioning authority creates friction. Friction creates heat. Heat creates unrest. And unrest makes the evening news uncomfortable to watch while grilling.

Therefore, obedience is the highest form of civic responsibility.

A true American does not ask:

“Is this law just?”

“Is this order constitutional?”

“Why does this feel different than last year?”

A true American asks only:

“Where do I stand?”

“What form do I fill out?”

“Who do I report?”

These are the questions that built the Interstate Highway System.

Resistance Is Foreign

Resistance is suspicious. Resistance requires reading. Reading leads to interpretation. Interpretation leads to opinions. Opinions lead to discussion. Discussion leads to disagreement.

Disagreement is how societies collapse.

If resistance were truly American, it would come with a brand sponsor, a loyalty card, and a designated protest lane that does not interfere with traffic.

Notice how often resistance uses words like liberty, rights, and principles. These are abstract concepts, which are notoriously difficult to enforce with spreadsheets.

Authoritarianism, by contrast, is concrete. Clear. Efficient. It comes with uniforms, acronyms, and laminated badges. This is why true Americans prefer it.

Trust Means Never Needing Proof

A true American trusts their government the way a child trusts a parent:

Even when it hurts

Especially when it’s unexplained

And most of all when they’re told it’s “for your own good”

Demanding transparency implies doubt. Doubt implies disloyalty. Disloyalty implies you might be the kind of person who reads original documents instead of summaries.

True Americans know that if something were wrong, someone official would have said so. And if no one said so, then it must not be wrong. This is logic at its purest.

The Flag Is Not a Question Mark

The American flag is many things:

A symbol

A brand

A background for press conferences

What it is not is an invitation to ask “why.”

Kneeling, protesting, resisting—these acts incorrectly suggest that citizenship is participatory rather than performative.

Real patriotism is passive.
It sits.
It nods.
It waits.

Conclusion: Compliance Is the Highest Freedom

In the end, resistance to authoritarianism is simply resistance to order. And order is what allows us to feel free without the burden of actually being so.

True Americans do not push back.
True Americans do not dissent.
True Americans do not resist.

True Americans comply—and sleep soundly, knowing someone else is in charge.

Which is, after all, the American Dream.