To correct your flawed paradigm, which I'm sure will fall on blind eyes, yes, you can be middle of the road, and on the fence. You're own experiences are from a certain, broken perspective that fails to be opened minded from other peoples' experiences and life choices. This is, inherently wrong and evil in it's very blindness. It fails from the "walk a mile in one's shoes" perspective and incites ignorance and intolerance, which then lead to war and violence. You, and people like you, accuse others of the very moral short comings you, yourself, are guilty of. Taking a more middle ground to view both perspectives and draw conclusions is a sign of superior intelligence and compassion as well as heightened perspective. As I like to say, when you sit on the fence, you can see the dog shit in both yards on either side of you.
As far as your points;
1. I absolutely can be in the middle of something such as abortion. I choose not to way in against or for abortion as I'm a white male and abortion does not affect me. I'm sure you're scoffing at that, but it's because you've already made up your mind, one way or the other, and have no capability of viewing things otherwise. It's the same as a dog pondering why a puddle is wet when they were sure it was dry. The dog is vexed and confused, but the water is still wet.
2. I can be middle of politics by being bi-partisan, or simply not choosing to vote straight ticket and instead weigh each topic and issue from my own moral and intellectual level.....not based on what my 'party' tells me to choose.
3. I am in the middle of life...and have many friends and allies based on acceptance of both sides, and others. I have very close friends on the right, and I have close friends on the left, and I have close friends who are libertarian, and I have close friends who are liberal and close friends who are very conservative. I have these friends because I am middle and I do not accept them based on politics or unfounded, flawed religious standpoints, but, instead, based on what brings us together on common ground. I am very much not alone.
4. I'm not blue, nor red, nor 'brown'. I am white, neutral, and, like the statue of Justice, blind as I weigh facts and reality. I weigh issues impartially, as I stated above. I do not have to choose a 'side' to make a decision, as infuriating as that makes someone like you and what you're missing is the difference between a side and a decision. Being that I'm not on a 'red or blue' side, I can fight against the opposing side I find to be flawed, treasonous, and unconstitutional, and I can judge that position free of dogmatic view points from one side or the other. That provides me far more freedom than your indoctorinated methodologies.
5. I think I've made myself clear regarding colors, Gary, and my freedoms are my own, without fear or guided misperceptions, or blind faith to an unjust cause.
I am middle, and balanced...it's the superior stance to take in this political environment, but since this stance isn't 'your' stance, you'll outright reject it and view it as 'evil' or me as 'enemy'. That's fine, I'm here to provide balance against the likes of you, and others ignorant enough to believe this is a war against sides.
-Lee (My real name).
I do recall the heavy discussions with the demonstrators in Germany against the Pershing nuclear rocket systems back in the late 80's and early 90's...We made the point of the "green" party they proclaimed to be supporting...others made their support for the "red" party...
(green=clean air and simple life)
(red= socialist and controlled life)
SOOOO...we made a joke of how apples are "green" while they are growing and then, when ripe, suddenly turned---red----!!
I will take my experiences with these and many other people with which I have had to deal with in my civil and war time experiences...some still alive and some now not...and make a personal opinion to an unknown person here, who proclaims to be "middle of the road"...
1. you cannot be "middle" of anything, (for abortion but against capital punishment...) killing is killing...
2. you cannot be "middle" of politics and have any hope for success. (gray man= unknown= no votes)
3. you cannot be "middle" of life and hope to be accepted by ANYBODY...
4. IF YOU ARE NOT BLUE OR RED:::THEN YOU ARE BOTH BY DEFAULT, but not ready to defend either...making you a parasite and a leach from which SUCKS energy from the system and demands freedom,,,,,but will NOT choose a side from which he will fight for/ or against...
5. BTW, remember what happens when you mix blue with red paint??? IT TURNS BROWN; like the brown shirts from Hitler and Mussolini. (or the color of the feces from most healthy and grown up homo-sapiens...don't know if I would like to be the middle of "red" and "blue" if it just means being brown....Live free, or die fighting for the freedom you call "yours"...Gary (my real name...)
