According to a new poll, the number of voters who consider themselves independents is now the highest in seventy-five years.
Good news: According to a new poll, the number of voters who consider themselves independents is now the highest in seventy-five years.
If you call yourself independent, it means you intend to keep an open mind about who to vote for. It means you have decided that loyalty to party affiliation is not a reason to vote for a candidate. It means that you have decided to reject conventional wisdom and go your own way.
It doesn’t necessarily mean you will make a wise decision, but it does mean that on the whole the American electorate has decided our government needs a new approach, and that knee-jerk loyalty to the established political parties is not the way to get it.
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Good news: According to a new poll, the number of voters who consider themselves independents is now the highest in seventy-five years.
If you call yourself independent, it means you intend to keep an open mind about who to vote for. It means you have decided that loyalty to party affiliation is not a reason to vote for a candidate. It means that you have decided to reject conventional wisdom and go your own way.
It doesn’t necessarily mean you will make a wise decision, but it does mean that on the whole the American electorate has decided our government needs a new approach, and that knee-jerk loyalty to the established political parties is not the way to get it.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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This piece is spot-on. Funny – I just told my friends here at work today the same thing – that I’m 100% confident Walker will prevail. WHY?? Because not ABC, nor CBS, nor NBC even MENTIONED the Recall on their network newscasts last night – a sure sign they think “their side” is going to LOSE ! ! You know darn well if Walker was about to be ousted, it’d be the lead story. Now they’re obviously trying to downplay the whole thing, pretending it isn’t important & that a Dem loss in WI doesn’t portend bad things for their side in Nov. A far cry from a few months ago, when the protests were given front-page & lead-story coverage…
Sorry – this was meant to be posted under the next story about the Walker Recall election – my bad…
Or it means that populace is moving to the extremes, left and right. “Main Stream” politicians are basically centrist and they are getting voted out of office more and more often.
When the extremes get control and power, everything spirals out of control. “A nation divided against itself cannot stand.”
At least around here most of the independents are actually life long Democrats who are now totally disgusted with the Democrat party but can’t bring themselves to vote republican.
I have found that even most tea party members are the same.
Most republicans are not that put off by the party yet. At least around here in Ohio.
It is crazy times we live in when not wanting $1t+ deficits is called extreme. I would hardly call the way congress has been run over the last 15-20 years as moderate. There are other more derogetory adjectives that would be more fitting. First among among them, corrupt.
Thanks for proving my point. You see the other side as un-American worthy of only hatred and contempt. The thing is, they see you the same way. What part of ‘divided, can’t stand’ do you not understand?
Nobody’s been voted out for being a RINO in Ohio? That would indeed be against the trend…
Unfortunately it is very difficult for the average (even independent) voter to truly understand what any particular candidate stands for/will do. Especially this is true at the state level below governor. So what is the best information the independent voters have to go on? That little (D) or (R) after the candidate’s name. Like it or not, parties are not going away anytime soon.
For voters who want bipartisan solutions, a Bipartisan Coalition would help them distinguish between moderate and extreme candidates based upon voting records and NPAT scores compared to their peers (i.e. relative on the extreme/moderate scale). At a minimum, extremist candidates would get fewer votes even from the moderate voters in their own party.
Who said anything about the other side?
It is far past time the both parties returned to rational governance.
Well said, I fully agree with that!
I stand corrected.