Loyalty. What and who are we loyal to? The U.S. Constitution is the bedrock document upon which everything within the United State of America stands. Elected officials, from the president, through the Congress, down to this and every district’s school board members, start their terms with an oath to the U.S. Constitution. Our elected officials serve us, in service to the Constitution. Our government starts and ends with the Constitution.

Those loyal to President Trump over their nation are revolutionaries against our government. They, as in every battle, showed their true colors. The insurrectionists storming the Capitol Wednesday raised Trump and Confederate flags, so their America is not the United States.

Their destruction starts with this fact: President Trump incited insurrection against the Constitution he took an oath to defend. Trump is a traitor to his oath and his country.

With two weeks left in his term he incited a mob that he had invited to the capital and instructed them to storm Congress, Congress’s crime? Their act for which Trump sent his hordes to attack? Congress was conducting its constitutional duty to certify the Electoral College ballots sent by the 50 states.

Trump has fought and denied our system of government. He had challenged state election systems and lost. He lost in the courts. Whether delusional as well as a denier of facts, he is a liar determined to break the system. Trump is loyal only to himself. He has again broken his oath.

Last Wednesday Trump incited his minions to stop the actions of Congress. Government is a process. Trump’s process is to break democracy. He sent his mob that he called to gather, that he incited, that he instructed and that he then directed to march on the Capitol.

The last time the Capitol building was defaced, British troops did it in 1814. Until Wednesday, the Confederate battle flag – the flag of traitors, states that rose in rebellion against the United State – has never been carried into our nation’s Capitol. That is the flag of our nation’s sworn enemies.

In this Trump-created crisis, his supporters rioted against their government – our government. They used flagpoles attached to the American flag to break windows and batter doors to break into the halls of Congress. They call themselves patriots, but the flags they carried read Trump and included the stars and bars of the Confederacy.

If we are patriots and do not adhere to the Constitution, what are we patriotic about?

Some in the hordes claimed they were defending the Constitution, but they were as delusional and wrong and treasonous as Trump. They waved their flags. They pledged their allegiance. They were not following our Constitution. They are traitors all.

Now we, our neighbors and all our fellow citizens, have to choose: will we be citizens of the United States or citizens of Trump world? Two flags waved over the Capitol last Wednesday. One was the American flag.

Are we loyal to the United States or to a president that has taken his lies over the cliff and is a traitor to his oath and country?

Who, and what are we loyal to? Loyalties don’t lie.

Time to choose.