Dear American Veteran, Concerned Citizen,
A short time after my book Irresistible Revolution became a national bestseller, I was contacted by independent filmmakers. They asked if I’d be willing to make a feature-length documentary about my book, career, and the current cultural trajectory of the U.S. military and the country. After a lot of thought, I agreed to move ahead with the project.
For the last year, I’ve been on the road around the country making that film, Against All Enemies. Soon we will make the film public and I’m hoping it has tremendous impact in the hearts and minds of Americans at this critical time in our history.
As I anticipate the release of the film, I am looking forward to hitting the road once again to speak to supporters like you, especially the next generation of leaders in America!
So, what’s been happening to our most trusted institution, the U.S. military?
In the military, we’ve always had, and very much prized, a merit-based selection and promotion process.
However, instead of that merit-based system that made our military a lethal, ready, and trusted institution, senior military leaders have replaced it with a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agenda that effectively dilutes merit.
That agenda ensures our troops receive recurring “trainings” that brainwash them into hating their country, despising the Founders, and distrusting one another based on race.
My book and forthcoming film clearly show that diversity and inclusion trainings—the vocabulary and spirit of the entire agenda—are undeniably rooted in Critical Race Theory (CRT)-Marxist revolutionary thought.
This destructive agenda has finally made its way out of the universities and elsewhere into the uniformed services.
And it’s having the same divisive and destructive impact in the military that it’s had in the universities.
The DEI agenda is dividing our troops; it’s pitting people against one another and crushing morale and readiness; it’s having a terrible impact on our recruiting and retention efforts!
We will never repair our recruiting and retention efforts without the complete elimination of DEI.
Actually, the father of lies is the founder of all of this division.
It’s not just a story as old as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels who put together the Communist Manifesto in 1848. Marx and Engels themselves were obsessed with the revolutionary ideas that they believed would successfully topple regimes and bring about an entirely new order; they employed a narrative they knew to be divisive.
But the ideas did not originate with them. They go back to the very beginning of recorded human history. The ideas wear many masks and go by many different names.
The ideas have recently been clothed with the seemingly harmless names of “diversity, equity and inclusion,” while donning a mask of pretended virtue.
You can imagine how these ideas wreak havoc in an institution such as the Department of Defense, which requires unity to be effective in its mission.
Instead of unity, you have division. You have mistrust.
Instead of growing the next generation of leaders, these bad ideas breed contempt for and disrespect toward the country, the military and their leaders.
By and by, race politics come to predominate in the culture.
The men and women in uniform signed up to serve in an all-volunteer force wanting to provide noble service to their country.
They are offended by what’s happening to their country and military in this current regime that values DEI more than the merit-based promotion and selection system.
Servicemembers are offended when they are bombarded with propaganda that demonizes the country and Founders they love.
But they have been afraid to speak up!
There’s been lack of courage among servicemembers because of a climate of fear. Men and women have been afraid of being labeled racist when they know they are not.
They have been afraid to say something that could be perceived as going against an official party line.
Now, I’m noticing that things have been changing.
Especially in the past year, I’ve noticed some of these same men and women beginning to take courage.
Thanks to organizations like STARRS, with its deep bench of talented veterans and volunteers, including STARRS founder General Rod Bishop and others, some of our servicemembers are waking up and making the determination in their mind that enough is enough.
We should each ask ourselves the question:
If I don’t speak up, who will?
I am fighting back and invite you to join me. I’m speaking up and trying to make a difference.
The best all of us can really do is to try to become educated ourselves, and then to exhibit the courage to speak up and use our voice freely and respectfully in whatever sphere of influence that we happen to occupy.
I really want to emphasize that men and women have no better opportunity in their lifetime to exhibit courage on the world stage and in their sphere of influence than they have at this moment.
Use your voices in defense of the Constitution and the principles that made our country great!
Because I’m committed to this fight, I’ve joined STARRS, a veteran-led nonprofit focused on eliminating DEI initiatives from the U.S. military, and restoring merit and unity.
If you align with this mission, we need your generous financial support to help it succeed.
Thank you!
Matt
Lt Colonel Matthew Lohmeier, former USAF/USSF
Executive Vice President, STARRS
P.S. The DEI agenda is dividing our troops, crushing morale and readiness, and needs to be eliminated from the military! Your donation is so critical in these pivotal times in order to win the fight.
Letter in PDF format: 2024 Message from Matt Lohmeier
