I've begun this blog as a tribute to those of us who lie somewhere in that vast middle ground between the extreme left liberals and the far right conservatives, who feel like both the Republican and Democratic parties are too often dominated by these two extremes.
You know, the extreme left liberals who think that they're smarter and more highly-educated than everyone else, and that makes their opinion matter more. The ones with their unkempt hair, thick-framed designer glasses and chic apparel who sit around in non-corporate-run vegan coffee shops to sip their chai tea soy lattes and discuss how corporate America is evil, red states are backwards and the United States is to blame for every single global crisis. (Wearing a total of $1,000 worth of brand name clothes and shoes, yet who complain that Republicans don't give enough money to help the poor.)
And the far right conservatives who think that American politics should be driven by the Bible, not the Constitution, and have yet to be convinced of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, which clearly excludes the names of the first man and woman that God placed on the earth according to the Book of Genesis. They think that the word "ass" should never be used on primetime TV unless someone is referring to the donkey that Jesus rode upon his entrance into Jerusalem, they want the federal government to determine women's reproductive rights, and they see the tradition of marriage at age 18 as nothing other than normal. (Well, maybe marriage at age 21 or 22 for those who go to college. And then of course the next step is to start a family! 5 kids by the time you hit 30.)
Obviously, I'm stretching the stereotypes a bit here, but I think I make my point. This blog is for those of us who fit neither extreme and are wandering somewhere in the middle, stuck between the GOP and the DNC. Because America has historically been a nation of just two mainstream political parties, I don't foresee a third major party rising in power at any point in the near future -- which means that we middle folk must choose between the two that are available to us.
I'm a self-labeled Libertarian Republican, but I still take verbal shots at both sides because hey, neither one is perfect! I think that's one thing that everyone can agree on, right?
3 comments:
I am fed up with the smugness surrounding the majority of the far left. You know those soy sucking hippies who sit around in their dirty little "legalize it" t-shirt blaming Bush for EVERYTHING while referring to Governor Sarah Palin (a mother of 5) as Satan.
At the same time, I am certainly not a conservative Bible-thumping pro-lifer either... So I guess that makes me a Republocrat!
Amen, sister!! I proudly state that I, too, am a Republocrat!!
Yes, yes, agreed! You two know what I'm talking about. ;)
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