One of the downsides of being politically unaffiliated is that too often it seems that everyone else is out to destroy you.

Partisan people do not like those who choose to be independent. They even hate such people. They are jealous of them. They FEAR them. Because the truly political independent know real freedom such that partisan folks do not and even can not.

I’ve taken it from all sides. From people who are angry at me that I won’t pick a side. When I attack THEIR side it comes across as a personal attack. And that is something that I especially find ridiculous. Nobody should make temporal politics so much the foundation of their life. That spot in my own life is given over to my faith and my desire to live a noble existence.

I’m unaffiliated because I know history and human nature. And I know that the way of partisanship is destroying us regardless of who it is who is of that paradigm. I choose to be different. I choose to be a thinker, a believer in objective reality that cares not for “feelings” and especially political ones.

The rest of you should appreciate that people like me exist, however few we seem. Because we are going to be the ones who clean up after YOUR mess when it finally comes crashing down into ash and ruin.

I’m choosing to plant trees, that I will never sit under the shade of, but which future generations will be thanking me for.

That is not an honor that I see either Democrats or Republicans ever having.