6
6
0
Posted in these groups: 
Political Organization
Political Organization
Posted 8 y ago
Responses: 14
3
3
0
Our 2-party system (your reasonable attempt to include others notwithstanding) is broke-dick and divisive. It would be much better if your effort to add more wasn't token in nature. As such, I don't identify with any of them. Both Dems and Republicans have tenets that I can get behind, and ones that I think are silly. For example, I think there needs to be better gun control, but don't make the mistake of trying to amend the 2A. Etc. As such, I have never in my life voted for a candidate because they're one party or the other. I always vote which makes me want to puke the least. At least, in the past that was so. This time around, I don't think I can stomach either, so I am probably not voting.
(3)
(0)
SSG Jessica Bautista
Wow, "token?" I don't understand, but I was more curious as to where people stand with issues and which have more priority to them. I didn't want to know who they're voting for.
(0)
(0)
SN Greg Wright
SSG Jessica Bautista - I think you misunderstood -- your effort was 'token' through no fault or lack of your own. It's 'token' because no party in this country is ever going to get elected to POTUS other than Dem or GOP. It's 'token' because the vast majority of the population will never see them as viable parties. Not your fault.
Having said that, I did answer your question: I'm not in any of them.
Having said that, I did answer your question: I'm not in any of them.
(0)
(0)
SSG Jessica Bautista
SN Greg Wright - oh okay, thanks for clarifying. That stung a little and I was just like, "wth, I thought we were friends!"
(1)
(0)
3
3
0
Sorry if I didn't cover yours, but apparently you can only have 5 options on RP. Feel free to add to.
(3)
(0)
2
2
0
I was a Republican until 1992, and was still registered as a Republican but voted for Bill Clinton. I think I changed my party affiliation around 1998 or so and have been a Democrat since then, though not a particularly loyal one.
I am sort of a moderate, though I am very liberal on many social issues and a centrist on most economic issues. What pushed me out of the GOP was the Religious Right taking a dominant role in the 1992 election. Since then, the GOP has done its best to make sure I don't return, by becoming more and more religious, and trying to legislate that religiosity into law.
I am very pro-gun, but even more pro separation of church and state, and if push came to shove (it won't), I'd rather be disarmed than live in a Christian theocracy.
I am sort of a moderate, though I am very liberal on many social issues and a centrist on most economic issues. What pushed me out of the GOP was the Religious Right taking a dominant role in the 1992 election. Since then, the GOP has done its best to make sure I don't return, by becoming more and more religious, and trying to legislate that religiosity into law.
I am very pro-gun, but even more pro separation of church and state, and if push came to shove (it won't), I'd rather be disarmed than live in a Christian theocracy.
(2)
(0)
SSG Jessica Bautista
That's a respectable view. I feel about the same with your points. It was the religious right that put me off. It's like they forgot that the whole reason people originally came here was for religious freedom.
(1)
(0)
LTC (Join to see)
SSG Jessica Bautista - Its more personal for me. I'm a very strident atheist and am very much against having Christianity inserted into anything and everything.
(0)
(0)
SSG Jessica Bautista
LTC (Join to see) - that's okay with me. I was baptized when I was 9, and I never got behind the whole Catholic thing. Fortunately, religion wasn't a central part of my family life. It always bothers me when people consider Christianity the default moral compass.
(0)
(0)
Read This Next
Continue with Facebook 
Continue with Google