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COMMENTS:
I am a Independent. I have grown up with part of my family being very to the left and the other part being very to the right. I have choosen to stay out of both parties because I don't feel a connection that other members of my family have recieved form there parties of choice. My views go from a very liberal view on Abortion to a very conservative view on the Death penalty, this is why I don't have a party, it's to difficult to be with a party when your political spectrum is so varied.
Ind: I'm wary of any set-up that allows, for all practical purposes, only two parties.
Not anything really. i plan on becoming a Democrat soon. Only 2 years and 4 months till I get to vote!
My parents are Republican, my best friend is Republican, my hometown is Republican (85% for Bush in 2000) and yet somehow I saw the light and joined the Democrats. I don't agree with them on everything, but I agree with them on most things.
I was a Republican until 1988, when I realized that Reagan and the GOP had sold the nation a bill of goods that weren't worth the paper they were printed on. I saw people starting to suffer long-term economic hardship because of Reagan's policies, people being forced to subsist on CAT FOOD because they couldn't afford large quantities of HUMAN food on welfare. (I'd always thought it ODD that, with food stamps, you could buy PET FOOD.) That managed to crack the shell of privilege I'd lived under during those years (my mother had managed to get a well-paying job during those years, NOT through any GOP policies, and I'd begun trying to forget the hardships and privations of my early childhood).
Now, I believe that our FIRST priority needs to be OUR OWN CITIZENS before ANY OTHER, no matter HOW dire the visible need may be. We're in a war right now to better life in Iraq, but I recently attended my maternal grandfather's funeral. He lived in a town in New York called Highland Falls, which is just across the Hudson from West Point (the USMA). This town makes Fallujah look like DISNEY WORLD. The houses are FALLING DOWN, half the roads are MUD (hell, half the TOWN is!) and you can't even FLUSH the TOILET when you use it (sewers are so bad, there's a $25 charge for excess flushing!). Let's take some of that $87 billion we GAVE to Iraq as a GIFT, and spend it on OUR OWN CITIZENS, okay?
If I were 2 years and a few months older, I'd be a Democrat, but I'm too young to vote :(
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