lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

I've been accused of being a fence sitter, never choosing a side and I'm quite happy sitting there. My fence is in the middle, between the left and right and the fencing material is sometimes called the Constitution of the United States of America. I sit there watching those on the left and those on the right in their tug-of-war battles, each trying so hard to pull my fence over to where they think it should be - but it ain't moving. It WON"T move either, as long as myself and the other fence sitters keep it anchored where it is.

History is rife with examples of the disasters that result, when the fence sitters get off the fence to go pee or whatnot, and one side or the other manages to move the fence closer to their side. Of course, each side of this Constitutional tug-of-war, believe the fence belongs where THEY are, but if that were true - the founding Fathers would have put the fence there in the first place.

That's why I consider it my solemn duty to sit on the fence, keeping all the knotheads from moving it, just because they think they know better than everyone else, including those that built the fence in the first place. I don't have to understand everything about the fences construction to sit on it, I just have to know when someone is trying to pull it over to their side - and plant my butt more firmly to prevent that from happening.

There are plenty of folks offering all kinds of arguments, each trying to convince me to get up, so they can move my fence, expecting me to then sit on it again and keep it anchored where they think it should be. Well, that ain't happening, because I have complete faith in those that built my fence and trust their placement of it. You can try to convince me that the fence is in the wrong place and do so until the cows come home, but it will be in vain - because my butt has been sitting on this fence my whole life and I'd KNOW if it had moved.

So, to all of you other Constitutional fence sitters, I say good for you and keep your butt planted and ignore all those that tell you THIER side of the fence has greener grass, because they're lying. We fence sitters can see on both sides of the fence and see that the grass is dried up and dying, no matter how much cow poop they spread there, because it lacks watering with unvarnished truth. Like I said, I don't have to understand all there is to know about the Constitution, I just have to recognize when someone is trying to rewrite it or retranslate it, because they're trying to move my fence and I won't let 'em - I'm happy sitting on it right where it is.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

That's a myopic way to look at things. Under the extreme circumstances we have today, that fence is Razor Wire. Be careful trying to climb down to go pee, you could rip your balls off.

Another view of your position is you are in the middle of the road. You can get run over out there.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Don't feel as if you're alone, Doc. I would enjoy your company.

the waker Loc: 11th freest nation

Whether its the right arm or the left arm, they're both still part of the same Banking Establishment.
Even the choices we get to chose from are far from the will of the people.

Stay calm, and slave on.

son of witless

Good argument for staying neutral. A fence sitter is a bystander. While he is standing by others have to make decisions. Others have to make hard choices. I think Hollywood movies contain all of wisdom needed to navigate life. Today's lesson comes from the great movie The Guns of Navarone. Gregory Peck's character has finally had enough of the self satisfying philosophy of David Niven's character. He tells Niven " You think you have been getting away with it all this time, standing by. Well son, your bystanding days are over. You're in it now, up to your neck! "

Then they go and destroy the German cannons and save the day.

PZG1225 Loc: Florida

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lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Nope, totally wrong. Bystanders are on the sidelines, not in the middle. Don't you get it? The fence sitters are protecting the AMERICAN way of life, not the democrats way, republicans way, conservatives way or the liberals way.

Without us fence sitters - you wouldn't have any way of knowing WHAT side you were on - you'd only know you were "here".

You can't move the Constitution to where you'd like it to be - we fence sitters won't allow it.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

Waffling makes me nauseous. Eternal
waffling by all and we would be less
effective as a species then a tribe of
monkeys.


So you think that by people making a stand
makes them knotheads. Your elevated sense of
reality should be followed by others I suppose.
A nation of fellow wafflers ! Hum .
Let me think.*** Nope. That won't work.

Their comes a time when centrist must choose .
Choose . Or quit pointing fingers.

Stop this before you hurt yourself.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

So enlighten me. How has sitting on the fence helped support and strengthen America and The Constution as Obama and his mob have consistently broken the law? They moved the fence and you simply went along for the ride.

son of witless

Always happy to meet Classic movie lovers.

son of witless

How'd that work out during the American Revolution?

Morgan

Doing nothing is still an action, like sitting on the fence, I like your analogy here. Not voting still impacts the outcome, all I have to say for those people who don't vote, is that they than don't have the right to complain when all is said and done.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

The fence is still where it's always been. The President may think he's moved it, but he didn't. The Congress may think they move it when controlled by one party or the other, but they don't - not even when they think they control the Supreme Court.

The fence is written in English, and even though the subsequent amendments are full of legalese, even that is written in English, so, with a little thought and a dictionary - anyone can read it. Conservatives want to "interpret" it one way and liberals another, but we fence sitters believe it says what it says and needs no "interpreting", as though it was written in a foreign tongue.

In English, sentences are crafted in a specific manner so as to convey the desired concept accurately. Paragraphs are constructed in like manner and for the same purpose. That means that anyone who reads an ENTIRE sentence in the Constitution, will understand the desired ( by the original writers ) concept, and after reading the ENTIRE paragraph or article, will understand the purpose for which it was written - and know who it applies to and how to apply the concepts presented. In other words, the "interpretation" is included already and does not require some smartass to tell us what it says or what it means.

Fence sitters read it exactly the way it is written, without any partisan or ideological filters applied. You may push against the fence, or pull it as hard as you can and may even see it bend giving you the illusion that you moved it, but I promise you, you didn't move it and you won't move it - as long as we fat ass fence sitters keep our butts firmly planted right on top of it.

It's that simple.