"You're a Republican? So, you don't want transgendered people to participate in the military?" Woah.

First of all, that's not what I said. Secondly, no. That's not what I think.

I begin to distrust a fresh host of friends. Freshman orientation week is off to a rocky start.

I cannot remember a time when I felt socially secure in my political credences. Personal security has never been an issue. I'm a man of principle. I understand this and conduct myself as such, hardly wavering.

Growing up in Manhattan left me acutely aware of the sentiments of the so-called progressive left. I was the wayward member of the flock and a rare bird indeed. Still, I was constantly inundated with their rhetoric on numerous platforms: social media, television, conversation. I felt for them too. Their messages of acceptance and equality felt harmonious with my own principles. Then, I would hear "Oh, I saw you liked an article published by Conservative Daily. What's up with that? What's wrong with you? How could you possibly ..." The permutations of the same question are infinite, and equally infinite is the frustration they induce.

I cannot avoid the constant barrage of conservative-bashing rhetoric on my news feed. I am constantly inundated with the campaign to rid American politics of Conservative ideology and left merely a spectator while my closest friends enjoy their first amendment rights freely.

Why are my assumed sentiments and credences spurned from the ubiquitous acceptance that I was told and hoped to expect?

I don't believe I am a horrible person. I don't feel as though the moral conflict I experience when contemplating contemporary, hot-button social issues makes me ignorant. I strongly believe in equal protection under the law, and that belief is and must be inclusive to those who protest these divisive affairs along with their proponents. I am not required to agree with a single word of the dogma to feel this way. This nation devised an amendable constitution for a reason.

There is a distinct lack of dialogue when it comes to political rhetoric. Individuals are now more free than ever to quite literally subscribe to self-validating grandiloquence. This has resulted in a moral and political absolutism that has left Generation Y blinded; swinging wildly at a nebulous piñata of reason.

No one is sure how to remedy issues geopolitical, economic, or social, and everyone is terrified to admit it. Being secure in a particular credence has provided humans an unmatched level of security for millennia. Those who have fervently trusted the existence of one or more deities are the same as those who have been sure in their absence. Neither are unequivocally wrong nor indisputably right, but the most passionate of both sides are unrelenting in their aplomb. This needs to end if we are to be a rational society.

Neither side is correct.

Why do I feel as thought I am the first to say this?

Neither side, left nor right, is correct.

I want to discuss and write about politics with the expectation that my opinions, supported by logic and individual reasoning, will be respected regardless of any contrarianism perceived, the same way I am willing to accept the fact that political views contrary to those of my own are supported by numerous individuals, and therefore must contain a significant enough amount of propriety. I live within the confines of my own mind enough as it is. I would genuinely prefer the acceptance of my political individuality over the distress of being a pariah simply because I want to shrink the federal government.

I want to break the binary political system we Americans face. I want both sides of the aisle to acknowledge their fallibility and work towards sculling Washington D.C. out of the irons it has tacked itself into. Before you get ahead of me, yes, both sides are equally culpable. Don't even start with me.

I am ready to emerge from the confines of my corner to be considered and respected. I take this leap of faith with the desire to comfortably land in a sea of red and blue.

Let's end the incessant double-standards and tiresome hypocrisies. Let's have the 50 percent be able to address the other 50 percent in a civil manner. Yes, there are crazy jerks, but frankly crazy jerks can shove it. There is a lot of bizarre stuff going on. Let's talk about it. What do you say?