I really feel like Politics is a platform that can’t be independent unlike Music and Journalists
It doesn’t make any sense for a social activity based on keeping the country in order and making all the choices in community to be done independenly especially in a two party system between democrats and fascists.
Most independents I know are very progressive but don’t pick a team. They defined their political views on an issue by issue basis. The problem with picking a team is picking that identity and letting the party dictate what you should think. Being a proper independent takes more work. You have to read into each candidate not just pick a letter.
Also you have tactical voting. I vote in every primary as a Republican to put the progressive in the best position then vote against them in the general if that makes sense for that race. Sometimes the progressive are not running in that district so in that case you vote the moderate Republican in the primary to do the least amount of harm to progressives.
I honesty wish more progressives would run in Republicans races incognito. so we can fuck up their numbers like Sinema or Fetterman.
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Some are, but realistically I’m independent. I just have to register as a party to vote in their primary in my state. If I didn’t have to, I wouldn’t.
No
Nope.
I’m rather progressive, and openly identify as a socialist, and I have registered unaffiliated (note: distinct from “independent” in the US, because the American Independent Party is squatting on that moniker, annoyingly, which tends to confuse a lot of people). It’s quite clear to me at this point that the Democratic Party establishment is basically just diet Republican with less (overt) fascism. Our two party system is utterly fucked. Both parties need to die.
The truth is that, by any normal definition, Republicans are far right and Democrats are centre right.
If you actually wanted to run a progressive platform, then running as an Independent might be your only choice.
In the UK at least, most Independent candidates run single-issue platforms. Hartlepool famously elected a guy dressed as a monkey as mayor, he ran on a platform of “free bananas for school children”. He did so well as mayor, they elected him two more times.
Another costumed independent, Count Binface (an intergalactic space warrior who wears a dustbin on his head) beat the far-right Britain First party in the London Mayoral election (although sadly didn’t win the actual mayorship).