@TwiHusband I think there are plenty of embarrassed Republicans claiming to be independent and making it seem that way, but there are also true independents.

@sfleetucker Beg to doubt. When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I fancied myself "an independent". I didn't need no stinkin' party. Then that senile old fool Reagan won an election against a man whose shoes he wasn't fit to polish. And he did it crookedly too. Then he started industriously setting the stage to turn back the clock to the Robber Baron Era. He installed a religious liaison office IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

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@sfleetucker I learned my lesson hard and fast...and regretted the price of tuition ever since. There might be a few who honestly imagine themselves "independent" today, but the vast majority are easily manipulated fools who accomplish one thing only. Monkey-wrenching progress and calling it freedom.

Bob Heinlein was a good SF author, but I had no use for his politics. However, every now and then he'd come up with a jewel.

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@TwiHusband I always liked Wiesenthal:

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor.

@TwiHusband @sfleetucker So you think that it is not possible to be, say, a progressive, unless you belong to one of two parties.

Interesting.

The reason that I am not a Democrat is because the Democratic party is far too capitalist and conservative for me.

@TwiHusband @sfleetucker Belonging to a party (like belonging to a club) means you are a member of that social group.

I don't believe in political parties at all. I think they are the same as any other racketeering group, and should be outlawed.

That does not make me a conservative, closet or otherwise.

I don't give a shit about parties, I care about people, and about right and wrong. I don't need to join a fake little club to have real values.

@Wbtphdjd Some folk ain’t got no common sense.