????Arising_uk wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 6:08 pmYou have to register your political affliation over the pond?gaffo wrote:...
I'm i registered Independent, ...
yes i do - of course.
is this odd?
if so i welcome understanding/learning.
how do is it done on your side of our pond?
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in fact in my State (Oklahoma) sadly being the least Democratic State in my Union (due to legislators changing the laws to lock in the Republicrat/Deomcon 1 party - oh sorry "2" party state of affiars removed my ability to register as one of the other 2 parites we have over here nationally - Libertarian (which is what i really am, but cannot register as in my state - so have to reg as Independant (which means "other" rather than republicrat/democan") - Green
I like somewhat the Greens too (they affirm international law). i used to like the dems (they still affirm what the greens do wrt to interantional law/un/etc) - but have gone off the deep end with indentity politics - throwing uiniversal humanism/melting pot - E pluribus unum - under the bus for tribal indentity egoism by the 1990s. only thing still worth a damn with the dems of today is thier valueing of my constitution/ACLU/civil rights, and their economic views - tax the rich more (though his latter is now nearly dead with them too being more tricklydown republican today than they should.
Libertarians do piss me off economically - they are all about trickle down and utterly wrong in their ecomic views, but fully the best WRT civil rights/rule of law per my constitution. Libertarians are the last party left that truely loves affirms and respects my constitution fully - rather than picking and choosing part for self interest and giving lip service. Liberatarian fail WRT international law and the UN (where Greens are right - but green are wrong in not valuing our Constituion/state constitutions rules of law).
so I'm fucked.
70's era democrats were whare i've been since that time................but they left me.
Liberatians the best fit for me now - but due to thier crazy economic view a poor fit.
I'm a pefect fit for a political party that values the Rule of Law (my US Constitution as its foundation) from the town to internationally, values taxing the rich to expand the middle class, reject State Authority by instinct (and so affirms Jury Power/Pardon/Nullification) - affirms denying presenting identification to "the police" without "reasonable cause" by them (god bless the ACLU).
I guess that makes me a Registered Independant Hippy - though 20 yrs too young to be a real hippy.
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again in my state i cannot register as either a Green Party nor a Libertarian member. the registration form in my state does not offer them -even though they are National parties in my nation (Greens are around 1-percent, Liberatarians are around 2-percent).
the form in my state offers:
Republican (should be re-labeled Authoritarian Fascists IMO -Repuglicons of today is not Eisenhower's party!)
Democrat
Independent