Radical Centrism

I love being a moderate/centrist in America. Simply stated, it makes the day-by-day sensationalism of American news come across as comical. To anyone who is not a radical on either side of the spectrum, news lately seems to act in the way of a pendulum. On one day, an event occurs that energizes the radical right in a manner that allows the group to proclaim that their end-all-be-all prophecy is true. The next day, something happens that gives supposed total justification to the liberal left in writing the narrative they set forth as the ultimate truth.

With that analogy put into writing, I can now state that quite frankly, no, I don’t find this back-and-forth, radicalized view of domestic/international happenings to be productive. It disgusts me that both sides are blinded by events deemed counter to their agendas, while they waste no opportunity to dramatize the simplest events in order to selfishly support their own hypotheses.

Why can’t we, for once, look at a shooting in an impartial manner? Why does the color of one’s skin seem to matter more than the event itself? Speaking of radical ideas, why is it that the futuristic, altruistic concept of one race/religion seeming to make more and more sense to me? We speak of America being the bedrock of freedom and diversity, and yet modern American society seems to be anything but open to diversity of thought, culture, and action.

Wake up.

If you find yourself getting excited about an act of violence occurring because it supports your prophecy for the world, then you need to re-evaluate your quest in life (stated nicely). Violence is bad. Hate is evil. Compassion is a necessity. And truth has no bias.