I'm a registered Independent, and for a reason: I want to remain unaffiliated. But why not pick a side I agree with most? Well first of all, this was partially a matter of spam mail. I simply do not want to receive buckets of partisan propaganda fliers before every election. But I'm also an Independent because I think parties have become too uniform, and those not in check with the rest of their group to a certain acceptable extent eventually result in the creation of a party subsect or a complete split.
Parrots apparently are the main target of parties. People who can agree with a few basic views of any given party depending on how their conscience dictates them will inevitably be sucked into a sort of informal contract of complete submission to their party. If things don't go their way, they'll squabble amongst themselves, their heretic party members, and, of course, the opposition, until they can try again in the future to unite briefly enough to gain the upper hand in world dominance.
I know their actions, as a whole, don't speak for me, but that's exactly why I don't affiliate myself with any of them. I don't believe for a second that parties are inherently evil, but that they show a tendency to thrive on closed-mindedness. And with our TV, Internet, and radio punditocracy full of nonstop fear and misinformation, it's bound only to get worse (unless we do something about it). Americans should never fight Americans. The Civil War is long over. Neither party will destroy our nation, but only having two with significant voter bases is divisive and unnecessary.
Parrots apparently are the main target of parties. People who can agree with a few basic views of any given party depending on how their conscience dictates them will inevitably be sucked into a sort of informal contract of complete submission to their party. If things don't go their way, they'll squabble amongst themselves, their heretic party members, and, of course, the opposition, until they can try again in the future to unite briefly enough to gain the upper hand in world dominance.
I know their actions, as a whole, don't speak for me, but that's exactly why I don't affiliate myself with any of them. I don't believe for a second that parties are inherently evil, but that they show a tendency to thrive on closed-mindedness. And with our TV, Internet, and radio punditocracy full of nonstop fear and misinformation, it's bound only to get worse (unless we do something about it). Americans should never fight Americans. The Civil War is long over. Neither party will destroy our nation, but only having two with significant voter bases is divisive and unnecessary.
