So here we are, tooling down the highway at high speed, heading toward a fork in the road. We can go right, or we can go left. The government is holding the steering wheel, but the navigator is the American people — you!

The driver turns to the navigator and asks, “Which way?” To which the navigator replies, “AAH! DO SOMETHING!”

Well, I’m sitting there, and I say, “I think we should go left.” To which the guy sitting next to me says, “No, we should go right.” And the navigator screams, “STOP IT! BOTH OF YOU! DO SOMETHING!”

Did I mention that the car has no brakes? History never does.

They keep complaining that we should put “the country” or “the people” before “party” or “special interests.” Fair enough. I believe that we should become a society in which the super-rich paid their fair share and everyone’s basic needs were provided for. That’s the best thing I could wish for my country. Needless to say, there are other people who believe the exact opposite.

Now, I hate their guts — I really do. But I have more respect for them than I do for the “centrist,” stop-it-both-of-you crowd. For them, I have just three words: lazy (unwilling to do the work of figuring out which side to take), cowardly (lacking the nerve to take a side), and childish (expecting someone or something to save them from the consequences of the first two).

We can’t duck these decisions, folks. We can go right or left — or we can crash. I know which side I’m on. Do you?