The Democrats and Republicans are both bad (attorneys, Missouri, Miami)

[EricS39]

On most issues, I am left of center but I support neither party.

Republicans:
have an awful foreign policy stance that just makes everybody dislike the US.
Also this fundamentalist rightwing religious preaching from the right forces me to go to the left
By nature I believe in a caring system with strong emphasis on community, education, tolerance, coexistence

Community Projects such as wind energy, solar, recycling, taxing environmental waste and pollution
Cleaner backyards...these are important to me and they make communities congruent
Republicans are individualist and ignore things that are community-building

Happy and strong community towns have better education, better will to innovate and improve things,
More said power to the average Joe

This is more prevalent in blue states than most red states
Look at the states with highest tech growth it's Washington State and California
Culinary organic goodness goes to NJ, NY, Maryland, New England

Lower divorce rates = Massachusetts
Social congruency much stronger in Massachusetts than middle of nowhere Missouri



Democrats:
This party is NOT the answer! This party is poorly represented and is run by crooked attorneys who are looking to cash in on fundraising pools in the name of "we have to WIN"...within the non/Republican group are very clever minded people who don't have the desire to run top of the party so ...

You have a heartless party and a corrupt party to choose from
I don't like either one

Instead, forget the D and R and look at some of the happiest places and it's more often liberal-minded innovative groups whose non-profit works are building this nation every day...they are better than both parties combined and they live in the suburbs of Boston, NYC, DC, SF, and Seattle. These guys have good communities with great programs and see beyond national party letters

The national politics is pure BS....focus on your home area and win that way. The best societies on earth are liberal at grassroots level and leadership is from the bottom of the barrel, NOT the top

[EricS39]

Here are happiest places from what I see. These are more liberal-leaning but the national Democrat party plays virtually a non-existent role in why people are happy in these spots. It's power of citizenry that does.

Cambridge-Newton-Wesley, MA
West Hartford-New Haven, CT
Boulder, CO
Portland, OR
Providence, RI
Cedar Grove-Livingston-Roseland-Madison-Short Hills, NJ
San Jose (101 corridor), CA
New Hope-Doylestown, PA
Silver Spring-Greenbelt-Bethesda-Rockville-Chevy Chase , MD
Falls Church-Arlington-Alexandria, VA
Austin, TX and a small bit of Dallas (new)
Minneapolis, MN
Burlington, VT
Athens, GA
Columbus, OH
Palm Beach-Broward-Miami Dade Cty, FL (if walking distance from tri-rail stations)
Madison, WI
Orange County, NY State

These are happiest places for a social interactive life in US as far as I'm concerned

The rest you have unhappier people with money or just unhappy altogether. Or maybe I missed your town. I'll tell you if you ask it it makes list

[cisco kid]

Dem and Rep are two branches of the same party.
We essentially live in a one-party state, not a democracy.

A real democracy has many major political parties, not just one or two.