The Middle

This is a text representation of my absolute frustration with people who straddle the middle in political arguments. They're the worst, not picking a side, seeing both points of view, when did this become some noble virtue? I find people who don't follow politics at all a tad annoying, but much worse is the person who spends the time and energy to learn about a topic, then take no position. I am a liberal, who strongly, angrily, sadistically disagrees with republicans, they are fools, and they are wrong. However, being wrong is not evil. Being wrong is not free of responsibility. Taking no sides is evil, sitting on the fence indefinitely is allowing what is wrong to compromise with what is right. We don't get along, lefties and righties, because the way we think we should solve the nation's many problems are opposite. That said, I would rather talk to a republican for 5 hours than an independent middle hugger for 5 minutes, who thinks we should all get along and compromise. This isn't football, this isn't Trading Spaces, this is the welfare and quality of life of 600 million+ citizens of the United States. Think about what you believe is correct. You don't have to join a team, you don't have to say that you're a Democrat, or Republican, but when asked if gays should be allowed to marry, or if women should be allowed to get abortions after a certain number of weeks, you answer yes, or no. Do not answer with a vague double crowd pleasing bullshit opinion that makes you look like you've figured this whole thing out. You haven't. Pick a fucking side.

(I don't agree with Ayn Rand's philosophy, at all, but damn is this quote sexy)

“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged