Like many people I'm caught smack dab in the middle of a fight between the Left and the Right. Sometimes it feels like I'm being pulled in two separate directions in some sort of macabre Luke Skywalker - Darth Vadar battle for my soul. In this battle I must choose. Am I a Liberal or Conservative? Am I a Republican or a Democrat? Am I a  Catholic or a Protestant? Choose. I must be one or the other. You cannot be both!

 

This is one of the failings that I think we're seeing more and more in our society. The fact that you must believe in EVERYTHING your group supports. It's like a giant grown-up version of dodgeball where you have to choose which side you're playing on before the speeding Ball of government or Business bashes you upside your head. Choose. Decide which side you are on and once you choose, be sure that ALL of your opinions match ours. Oh no, don't you dare share any opinions with the OTHER side! No, don't even think about their....(cue sinister music) Eeeviiilll thoughts.  Don't let their anti-our-views seep into your thoughts and dreams. We are all of one thought. One mind. Let's just call this exactly what it is. Political Borgism.

 

Remember the Borgs from Star Trek (ok, so I watch TV, sue me)? They were an evil race that abosorbed and converted any other races they came across converting them into mindless drone robots. There was no outside thoughts allowed. You will be assimilated!

 

Well, that's how I see a lot of what's happening in the world today. Each side wants you to be EXACTLY like them. Each side wants only to hear their opinions and no others. Each side will not tolerate dissent.

 

Liberal? Conservative? Choose. Oh, and don't you dare have any viewpoints that the other side has. Become a Political Borg. Become.....One of us!