I see you...
Always talking about how you support raising the minimum wage, but you just shared a meme mocking fast food employees for asking for $15 and then being replaced by self-ordering kiosks. I know, you saw it on the Blue Lives Matter Facebook group page and without thinking too deeply about it thought "haha, so true" because fast food workers don't have any value to you.
I would like you to take a moment and think about why your reaction wasn't "McDonalds is a multibillion dollar company and they can pay their employees a wage to survive on." Have you done that? Good.
So tell me, when you said "yeah, I think they should raise the minimum wage," whom were you talking about? Or maybe you were saying that to sound reasonable when you don't really believe it, or maybe you really believe it and are afraid your conservative friends and family will socially isolate you or engage you in an uncomfortable debate where you will come across as leftish?
I see you white moderate independent voter. You're the one who decides elections. You're the one both parties pander after. But you're a walking political contradiction. You "see both sides" and "vote for the person, not the party." You loved Chris Christie when he did was "fiscally prudent" in cancelling the train tunnel under the Hudson, but you complain about the chaos at Penn Station caused in part by overburdened tunnels under the Hudson. You want tax cuts and balanced budgets, but also you don't want to cute either the military, Medicare or Social Security, which makes up about 70 percent of the federal budget. You love to hashtag Me Too, but also think that maybe women want it sometimes.
You're the reasons Democrats want to be "centrist" and Republicans claim to be "independents." You claim you want bipartisanship and compromise, but also you hate whatever comes from bipartisanship and compromise. You know why? Because sometimes there is no compromise. You either want to protect Dreamers or deport them. You either think unions are good for workers, or they're not. You either think LGBTQ folks deserve basic civil rights, dignity and respect, or you don't. You either think healthcare is something we should guarantee for everyone in society, or you don't. How we get achieve these things is the debate, but your "moderation" and "independence" is forcing us to have debates over basic things like, "do we treat other human beings like human beings?"
So I'm asking you, for the good of the country, to please...pick a side. Take a stand on important issues. Dare to have a position. It doesn't make you closed-minded, or ignorant to choose a side, it makes you principled.
Stand up, because otherwise those who do will walk right over you. Stand up, even if you're alone. Because here's the thing...you won't be.