Revelation
What if you spoke out against something — a group, or an idea — and you vocally opposed it, defamed it, and campaigned in opposition to it, only to wake up one morning and realize you were beginning to agree with it? What would you do?
Okay, now let me be very clear here… I’m not saying that I’m becoming a Republican, because I still disagree with them. What I am saying is that I’m realizing that I’m a lot more conservative than I thought… and that The Left really doesn’t represent me or my views. Granted, The Right doesn’t represent me either. I’ll remain an independent. The only difference is that where I used to be a liberal independent, I’m now far more of a moderate, perhaps even bordering on conservative.
This has all been going on over the last year, but the true realization hit me this week — in the shower, of course, where all revelations seem to happen.
You see, I was thinking about the idea that life isn’t fair. It’s a phrase that we hear all the time while growing up, but perhaps we don’t really think about.
You see, there are pretty people and there are ugly people, and you don’t get to choose which one you are. Some people are born to rich families while others are born into poverty-level homes with alcoholic parents, and you don’t get to choose which you’ll get. In this poker game of life, you’re dealt one hand, and you make the most out of it.
The left-winger in me naturally didn’t like this proposition. I tried to justify in my head that there were people who believed in fairness and those who didn’t, and that it takes both. I rationalized a world where 50% of people wanted fairness and 50% didn’t. It was a perfectly “democratic” fascination. But it was foolish.
Even in a world that was fairly divided into 50% who want everyone to be equal and 50% who don’t, the problem is that the half that wants fairness will consider the fairness of the other side. Meanwhile, their opposition doesn’t believe in fairness and offers no such consideration in return. Therefore, the right will always have an advantage. And thus the world will never be a fair, democratic place.
Look, they tried it in the Soviet Union and it failed. Communism doesn’t work. And the brand of communism in places like China is really a disguise for totalitarianism, or feudalism — they only offer communism for the have-nots.
What I’m saying is that the world really is not fair. It never will be. And with that established, the argument in favor of The Left is greatly diminished.
I still hate The Far Right. But I have far less tolerance for The Far Left. Maybe I’ve been moving around so much that I’m getting exposed to many different sides of the argument. Or maybe it’s just a natural part of growing up.
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