Kumbaya My Ass

Most of us are in the middle. I admire Liberals for their courage, optimism, and creativity. But I can't accept their trust that "all will be well if we simply ...".

Kumbaya! Anyone who tells you, “This is going to happen if we do that,” is telling you a lie. No one knows what’s going to happen. True Conservatives will tell you, we can’t depend on the continuity of all other things after we initiate change. That, folks, is a Conservative principle; that’s reality, and reality is what makes real Conservatives move slowly with change.

I lean Conservative, but I don't swallow far right ideology. The far right seems to have given up on democratic principles. They're starting to behave like Liberals. They’re starting to favor sudden changes, and they’re starting to promise us that everything will work out just fine if we simply …”.

Kubaya! It appears that Conservatives and Liberals alike just want control; they seem to want the power to keep us all in line, and like it or not, that is a distortion of our way of life in the United States of America.

As a group, the Democratic party has all drifted past the middle. They’re leaning extra hard right, past me for certain, but by no means far enough to keep up with the Republican party. And despite my protests that I am indeed Conservative, I’m considered a very strange, left-leaning creature by Republican standards, and a weird, unidentifiable independent by Democrats.

Yes, I know you can find many issues that "clearly divide us," as they proudly say. Both parties harp about abortion, gun control, health care, the deficit, the economy, trickle down, and much more. They're all issues that can be calmed, not completely solved, but calmed, with a little bit of compromise. Not enough of those in government want to compromise right now to make that happen. However, if you think about it carefully, you’ll see that these issues are easy to entrench yourself into, even if nothing changes. And if you think more about it, you will notice that’s just what many of them want to happen with these issues - nothing.

It used to be that our government never tried to solve all the problems. It just took care of matters as best it could so we could all get on to the next day, next week, next year without fracturing the whole country. No one was entirely satisfied, but at least, things got done. Now, things don’t get done. It seems as though we've put people in power whose purpose is to fracture.