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Peaceful Dave's avatar

As I wrote, registering as an independent is largely symbolic, but I see no need to declare affiliation with a party. That is especially true due to the warlike state between the parties.

I don't see all ideas as equal or worthy of respect. I do try to understand why people believe some of the things they belief. Far too often it is confirmation bias rather than a reason to hold a worldview. But sometimes they have reasons that are not just confirmation bias, but rather from their experience. That doesn't make them correct or good, but it does help me to not become a member of the radicalized extremes of partisan politics.

Once it becomes war, there are no good guys and bad guys. There are only our guys and their guys. Like the draftee who arrived in my platoon thinking we were the bad guys and Uncle Ho was correct, when the bullets flew that idea vanished like a fart in the wind.

You wrote, "For me there is only one political issue: the survival of the natural kingdom." I agree, but at the moment I see the biggest threat to that as the hostility between political rivals that increasingly looks like an increased desire for violence in the thought that the solution would be the death of "those people" that you expressed.

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YourAverageIdiot's avatar

Depends on the state. In NH you need to declare a party to participate in the Primary. So I register with a party to help push the major candidate slate in my direction.

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Chris Fox's avatar

Well the supreme Republican priority is is to þwn Teh Libs, and one of the best ways to do that is to wipe out as many species as they can.

Candidly, and I don't like saying this, I see no hope of reconciliation between the two poles. Conservatives who come back to the fold of sanity are at the level of anecdote. If they take back the Congress they are going to be as environmentally destructive as they can, regardless of the human consequences.

As far as I'm concerned the second civil war started long ago. It's them or us, and if it's them the world dies.

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