Once upon a not-so-distant timeline, there lived a group of the Most Patriotic People™ you’d ever meet. They knew all the words to the national anthem, cried during flag commercials, and kept the Constitution in their glove boxes — right next to the laminated Chick-fil-A coupons. (I know, I know. I like Chick-fil-A too, cue in watery eyes😭)
Every Sunday, they sat in church pews like royalty on thrones, quoting Bible verses louder than the pastor, nodding solemnly every time someone said “We’ve got to take our country back.”
And then — one day — they did.
With enough anger, fear, and campaign merch to last a generation, they purged the country of everyone who made them feel “uncomfortable.”
The foreigners.
The feminists.
The gays.
The brown.
The black.
The poor.
The loud.
The kind.
The different.
One by one, they packed up empathy and shipped it across the border.
Tolerance? Deported.
Compassion? Executed.
Critical thinking? Burned at the stake.
At last, the land was clean. Pure.
Exactly how they always wanted it.
No more Spanish on the signs.
No more “woke agendas.”
No more kneeling during the anthem.
No more rainbow anything.
Just trucks. Guns. Flags.
And silence.
At first, they celebrated. Finally! A world of people just like them!
They strutted around in matching polos, nodding politely, sipping coffee brewed with holy water, and pretending their casseroles weren’t dry.
But then… the silence got heavy.
The smiles started to crack.
The prayers began to echo.
And the people — the ones they had so much in common with —
began to show their teeth.
See, when you strip the world of everyone who challenges you, you’re not left with peace.
You’re left with a mirror.
And in that mirror, they began to see everything they claimed to hate:
Cruelty.
Pride.
Greed.
Rage.
The “Christian nation” they built had no more love, no more mercy — just judgment and power and shallow rituals.
They thought they had built heaven on Earth.
But they had built it without love.
And without love, they hadn’t created paradise.
They had created hell.
