The left likes to sell the idea that they’re the new American majority. 

Like most everything this bunch of merry marauders does, declares or desires, that presumption is grounded in sensationalism, narcissism and denial.

If you’re taking the time to read something by a guy who professes to be “candidly conservative,” odds are you are not part of the liberal-progressive-socialist fan base.

 Trying to catch you in an act of extremism would be a waste of energy, because most of what you do easily falls into the category of routine, predictable and normal. 

You work, shake your head at real extremists and just keep putting one foot in front of another while the world around you competes for insanity of the year awards.

You are – like it or not – stuck in the middle between an elitist upper-class of condescending, entitled, controlling snobs and an increasingly dependent, lost, drug-infused, non-working and, ironically, also entitled lower-class.

The former is seeking to dominate the world with technology, money, propaganda and liberty-robbing political agendas. 

The latter – with clear exceptions – is seeking to get the most for the least amount of energy and reliably voting for sociopaths who promise the most something for nothing.

America’s historic success equation of Liberty + Opportunity + Responsibility = Prosperity, doesn’t mean much to arrogant elitists attempting the vanity of world supremacy, or those who are satisfied with a life on empty.

No one is born an upper-, middle-, or lower-class person. We may be born into one of those social layers, but where we land rests in our own hands.

Personal choice is the number one determinant of everyone’s life course. Repeat that – personal choice is the number one determinant of everyone’s life course.

Elitist snobbery always starts with a choice to surrender truth and humility. And there have been too many people born in a ditch in India who survived and thrived to give those living in poverty a pass on their accountability for bad choices.

So, if you’re stuck in the middle with me and a whole lot of other Americans, what should you do?

Be proud of yourself

The vast majority of middle-classers do a bunch of good things exceedingly well. And to the extent that all good things are hard, deserve recognition for their service and sacrifice.

We work. Which means we contribute, build, uplift, defend, produce, and create. We don’t get wealthy with political chicanery, off-shore bank accounts, or milking the labors of others.

Nor do we see nursing off Uncle Sam as a form of employment, sell our souls to drugs, surrender to the harms of bad parenting or bad social environments, or view anger and entitlement as a path to happiness.

Middle-class people – using their head, hand, heart, and spirit – uplift their world, love their fellowman, and understand this quote from Bernard Shaw, “I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.”

Pay attention

There is so much B.S. being slung around as verbal confetti that one would think we live in a crazy-time parade.

Middle-class people have a brain, values, and skills, or they would not be in the middle-class. We have to use all three to separate deceitful lies from clarifying truth and keep our head, heart, hand, and spirit aimed in the right direction.

The forces of darkness do not want us to do that.

Ignore them.

Here’s a hint – enabling developing children who can’t be trusted to eat their vegetables to make a decision to switch genders; handcuffing law enforcement officers while unleashing criminals; turning our national problem-solving institutions (FBI, DOJ, CIA, CDC, IRS, etc.) into political arms of the Democrat Party; and opening our borders willy-nilly while pretending to police the world are not acts of light.

Nor is a chronic indifference to truth.

 Where from here?

Don’t rush to assumptions if you are mocked for being “deplorable,” “a religious nut,” “stupid,” “backwards,” or “racist.”

Take a moment and reflect on those behavioral traits. If any are true, get busy erasing them from your script. If they aren’t, recognize these all-too-common elitist accusations as the equivalent of what our healthcare officials did with masks, lockdowns, and vaccines. Nobody relies on mockery, intimidation, and deception to do good things.

Between 1967 and 2017, middle-class earned income went up 154 percent. Per our governing elites’ passion for filling their pockets and spending other people’s money, during that same period lower-class income through government transfer when up 269 percent.  Now you understand why we struggle to find folks willing to do an honest day’s work.

In the 1970s, ‘Stealers Wheel’ lamented the craziness of their time with some applicable words for our time:

“Well I don’t know why I came here tonight. I’ve got the feeling that something ain’t right.

I’m so scared in case I fall off my chair. And I’m wondering how I’ll get down the stairs. Clowns to the left of me - jokers to the right. Here I am stuck in the middle with you. Yes, I’m stuck in the middle with you.”

I’m grateful to be stuck in the middle with you....