My Thoughts on "Left" and "Right": Two Roads to The Same Place...

Now, in considering this, please do not think that I am a centrist or a moderate.  This is not the case; for the choice is not between Right and Left. 

The choice is between Liberty and Tyranny.

I stand firmly on the side of Liberty.

Liberty is not to be confused with libertarianism.  Liberty requires law, order, civil society. 

Civil society requires some allegiance to the "greater good."  Civil society requires willing sacrifice on behalf of others.

Civil society is neither Ayn Rand nor Friedrich Engles.  It is Thomas Jefferson.  It is John Adams.  It is Alexander Hamilton.  It is George Washington, and Ulyses Grant, and George Patton.  It is Confucious, and Jesus.  It is Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mohatma Ghandi.  It is environmentalism, and equality under the law.  It is free enterprise and a meritocracy. 

Civil society is the aspiration to humanity and the acknowledgement of human failings.  It does not expect perfection and it does not tolerate apathy.  Civil society is the rule of law and the mastery of self.