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I know that they say Independents have been the fastest growing party over the last 20 years, but is it really the case, and what Party are they coming from?
I said other because yes, we did switch from R to D but only once so we could vote for someone running on the D side for governor on CA in the primaries. He did not get the nomination so we switched back.
I switched from Demoncrat to Repub....I would say I ws a Socialist when I first started voting. Now I consider myself Libertarian and voted for Johnson in the last Pres election but I would have voted Romney if I thought my state was going to be close.
Republican to Independent. When GW Bush invaded Iraq, That was it for me. As an old Vietnam Vet, I could see the Bush administration was making the same mistakes and parroting the same war talk that led us into the Vietnam quagmire. I was always more of a Rockefeller republican rather than a Reagan republican. Compassionate conservative, rather than today's "slash and burn, take no prisoners" republican. Today's republicans seem to hate the country and the people in it. I've never been able to figure it out except to think they really have a hidden agenda and there's a large part of me that believes they are not above a violent coup, similar to Germany in the 30s. Romney marginalized and demonised almost half the American population(47%). I cannot side with any party who doesn't believe we are one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all and not just the 53% who pay federal taxes.
It all started for me young, listening before I got my chance.
Nixon, I saw what his administration did in corruption.
Then I saw Lame ass Carter, thought though he was great, until elected.
Along came Reagan and someone I could get behind for my first time to vote.
Again for a second term.
Thinking Bush being Reagans VP, he had to be like Reagan... Wrong! what a disappointment.
Voted for Slick Willie, but at the same time I was hearing little tid-bits from a squeaky little guy, Ross Perot. He was making a lot of sense, but didn't make it to the show. Clintons second time around, there was this Ron Paul guy and I have not turned away from him since.
I woke up that Republican & Democrat were the same big spending big government, wall street bankers running things, with the President as puppet and mouth.
Republican to Independent. When GW Bush invaded Iraq, That was it for me. As an old Vietnam Vet, I could see the Bush administration was making the same mistakes and parroting the same war talk that led us into the Vietnam quagmire. I was always more of a Rockefeller republican rather than a Reagan republican. Compassionate conservative, rather than today's "slash and burn, take no prisoners" republican. Today's republicans seem to hate the country and the people in it. I've never been able to figure it out except to think they really have a hidden agenda and there's a large part of me that believes they are not above a violent coup, similar to Germany in the 30s. Romney marginalized and demonised almost half the American population(47%). I cannot side with any party who doesn't believe we are one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all and not just the 53% who pay federal taxes.
Agree 100%. I switched when the GOP picked Bush to run as President as I could never support him after the garbage he put out in the primaries. By the way, I switched to Independent because I do not wish to be tied to any political hack party.
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I was raised in a Religious Right hardline household, although I'm not sure I would call them true Republicans. All they really cared about was (anti) abortion and (anti) gay marriage. They assume that any candidate against those two issues would be right on anything else. As a teenager I was a subscriber of the Limbaugh Letter and an NRA member.
What changed my viewpoint was the Iraq War, where the Bush administration ignored the warning of our allies and forced the nation into a needless war. So many innocent Iraqs and American soldiers died in this debacle and it's not over yet, with ISIS forming in the vacuum of power. When things were first falling apart I had a left wing professor in community college who was my first exposure to the other view point. Everything he said about the war - how Cheney made lots of money from no bid contracts, etc - was true. I started to wonder what else the Republicans were wrong on.
I've wiggled some since then but have generally agreed more with Democrats than Republicans. Had more moderate Republicans (like McCain) being in control I'd be more 50/50 but the party has taken a hard right turn. I view the Republican Party as depending on meaningless wedge issues to distract poor Whites and keep them voting against their economic self interest. The RP's core intention is to make life easier for the wealthiest by lowering taxes and eliminating gov't regulations. They parade on abortion and gay marriage but won't do anything because the want the issues for votes. Quite frankly they are the party of hate: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti Black, anti science. Could someone win the Republican presidential primary today if they didn't believe the Earth is 6,000 years old? I doubt it and that's scary.
Affiliating with a party means buying a package, prepackaged set, a bundle. I usually don't buy bundles, I personally prefer a la carte. Therefore, I vote unrelated to the two-party-circus program, looking which candidate would do a better job all things considered.
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Originally Posted by georgia dem
yes
I was a die hard democrat now I am not
they are not democrats anymore
they are slime, pure slime
So the other major party is what?
Pond scum?
Makes it a tough choice, eh?
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member" _________ Groucho Marx
I'll happily remain registered as 'unaffiliated'
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