Both of the Devils Hands

     Anoter midterm election has come and gone in this glorious country of ours, and we seem to be in the midst of the same “my party should have won” temper tantrums that we find ourselves in far too often. The Left is accusing the Right of voter fraud, and the Right is eloquently responding by calling them snowflakes. The Left is saying the country is doomed under this current administration, and the Right is saying that we’ve never been looking towards a more prosperous future. The Left is claiming that the Right is a bunch of racist Neanderthals responsible for the majority of hate crimes in this country, but the Right is saying that they are doing everything they can to keep this country safe while maintaining racial equality. With all of these statements being thrown around, what say you? What does the American citizen that all of these politicians work for have to say? How the fuck do you feel? And I’m not asking how does your party feel or what are they saying? I’m asking you as a rational and developed human being with your own deductive reasoning skills. How do you feel about the direction of your country?

     It’s no secret that in the United States there are two major political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans. To put it into the most basic of all definitions, they both exist to serve the people based on what the people vote for, but unfortunately they don’t really live up to that expectation. Instead, they seem to create their own agendas and use smooth talking representatives to convince their supporters that whatever new agenda they are pushing, it is most certainly for the greater good. Some of these representatives are so goddamn good at their jobs that they can coerce people into thinking that the agenda has always been a part of their own personal belief structure, and disagreeing with this ideal is grounds for exclusion from the group, making it easier to gain support for whatever they fucking want. These guys and gals are mental sales reps of epic proportions. They’re basically billionaire telemarketers that are selling you your future via shitty and heavily biased TV commercials. They are the greatest illusionists on the planet. They’ve driven us to believe that we are limited by one side or the other, that we the people are incapable of leading ourselves at all, and most of all they’ve limited our vision to fifty percent, by giving us two methods of American perception.

      Now let me dial it back a smidge real quick. I’m not about to start spitting some crazy “one world order / Illuminati” conspiracy type of fuckery at you. That’s not me, I like to keep my shit firmly planted in the realm of reality. However, what I am going to address from here on out in this article might cause, you the reader, to get very upset at me. And that’s fucking ok! It’s alright to read something that you don’t agree with as long as you learn from it or gain perspective. It’s perfectly fine to step out of your comfort zone and expand your horizons. There will be parts of this piece where I’ll be writing on both parties defense as the Devil’s Advocate, but I sincerely implore you to put logic in front of emotion and read until the end.

     I was raised in a very conservative Christian household, and I’m very grateful for the character traits that my parents instilled upon me by bringing me up with a certain and specific set of rules and beliefs. I’m honest, empathetic, rational, and yet still very flawed, (I had to add that last part because I’m also humble). My parents did an incredible job of raising me with an intrigue to challenge everything and learn for myself. They would encourage me to find my own answers to my own questions and give me the guidance to do so. Except for when it came to politics. Both of my parents were always readily able to give me an exact (and very republican answer) to any political question that I had growing up. Now through my 25 years of life I’ve developed my own world view and my own outlook on politics, but I’m still very conservative in a lot of ways. For example, my hands get clammy and my fists clench anytime I hear people crying about how much we need gun control, and you can kindly kiss my whole ass if you feel offended by that. Also, I fucking love Ted Nugent! And last but not least, just the very sight of Old Glory gives me a rock hard boner that unyieldingly reaffirms my belief and support in the Constitution of the United States! *author takes break and shotguns beer* But on the other hand, I have some other beliefs that are very liberal. I believe that marijuana should be decriminalized, taxed, and sold in licensed shops all over the Fifty Sates to anyone over the age of twenty-one that wants it, because it’s less dangerous than alcohol and you can fight me in the streets if you disagree. I believe that gay marriage being legalized was one the best things we’ve ever done because the government should have little to no role in our love lives anyway. I have certain views on abortion that would probably turn an average bible thumper into a picketing member of the Westborough Baptist Church faster than they could say “Ignorance.” A lot of people get very frustrated with me when I express these views of mine. The most common thing I hear is “You’re contradicting yourself.” But I’m not, I’m contradicting the two political parties, and I’m looking outside and in between my pre-determined limits.

     I’m not dogging on anyone that is either a Conservative or a Democrat, but what I am saying is that if you can only infer your rationale from one of the two parties, while refusing to accept anything that the other has to say regardless of merit, then you need to re-evaluate your mental state. You have a brilliant mind, that which given the proper freedoms for you to explore it, you’ll see that there is so much more to your life than choosing between donkeys and elephants. You can in fact have your cake and eat it too. You don’t have to live your life in the grasps of either of the Devils hands.