Marshal William T. O’Neil: How deep are you in?
Security Sergeant Montone: Not too deep… I’m paid to look the other way.
Marshal William T. O’Neil: I get it. You don’t do anything bad, you just don’t do anything good, right? 

— Outland

It’s time to pick sides.  It’s time to decide with whom you will stand when the votes are counted.  It’s time to force the same kind of commitment on the part of our political candidates.

Primaries for the election this fall are starting.  Will you side with the status quo, or will you help us go another way?  Even if you’re fed up with both major parties, you need to find candidates you can support.

I’m becoming a single issue voter.   My issue is this:  Do you trust the average American to be responsible for his or her own life?  It could be how you look at drug policy, or free speech, or abortion, or gun rights, or whatever, but if you’re not ready to loosen the grip of the government around our necks, then you don’t get my vote.

We all need to figure out what’s important to us and then vote for the people who share those values.  We’ve been compromising long enough.  We’ve gone too long electing and re-electing people who just want to profit from the public trough.  It’s time to put people with steel in their spines and fire in their eyes into office.