Why is that....

....the majority of posters here who claim to be "independent" clearly side with Democrats here and those positions, the vast majority of the time?

It's OK, just be proud and declare your allegiance. You are really not fooling anyone. A tree is known by it's fruits.
Stand up and be counted.

 

Perhaps that is because the Republican party has purged its moderates and moved further right changing the definition of Republican.

I am a Democrat who was formally a Republican.

 

Maybe, because the new definition of Republican is bowing and worshiping Trump no matter what stupidity spews out of him. Many people with any semblance of a brain or conscious can’t meet the new criteria.

 

Why do some people have a need to fit people into boxes? The world isn’t black and white. I honestly don’t know how anyone can agree 100% with every stance each political party stands for. Personally I have a mix of both parties mainly because I believe in personal freedoms. I’m very fiscally conservative but socially believe people should be able to do what they want without govt or people trying to stop them. As examples…if you don’t like guns then don’t get one. You shouldn’t try to take them away from anyone else. If you don’t like gay marriage then don’t marry someone of the same sex. You shouldn’t try to stop others from being able to do so.
Bottom line….you live your life how you see fit and I’ll live mine how I see fit. Pretty simple stuff folks.

 

I wouldn't belong to EITHER party - they both have sad histories and they both have out of control spending habits.
I had dealings with Trump before he was President and knew most of the bad things people were saying about
him were true ... so yes, I supported the Dems more than usual against him.

 

There’s a lot of that at The NewsTalkers as well. People who claim to be “independent” yet in every issue between liberal and conservative, democrat and Republican, secular and believer, they take the former and not the latter side in each case almost without exception. They may seem uncomfortable openly identifying with the democrat party as it stands today, but they are almost always anti conservative.

 

That’s odd. I grew up a moderate democrat who found the party left no place for me and moved over to the big tent inclusive Republican Party.

 

I think we are finally shedding the rhinos. Hope so. Their love of fawning media is bringing them into light.

 

How can it be big tent inclusive party if (see below)

I wish you guys luck in purging those that are unworthy.

 

Those who don't share basic principals and lack basic character....

 

That’s what the democrats have done to their moderates. What happened to the DLC?

 

The Republicans have literally embraced a cult of personality rejected by George W, The late George H W Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and so many more. Every national presidential candidate or office bearer for the past few decades, in fact,

Dems are the big tent party these days, or haven’t you noticed?

 

" ... big tent ..."? Well, bless your heart.

Here's photo of the people the Republicans hired in the White House ... and the make up of the Republican interns
in Congress vs. the Democrat interns ...

"Big tent" my ass.

 

they have decided they don't like Trumpism, they don't like the big lie, and they did not support the insurrection

that is the thing about independents, they can decide either way

 

Yes and independents are what usually decide elections. The vast majority of them want no part of a party controlled by a psychotic POS. Moreover many republicans, they can them RINOS or whatever they want, but they want no part of the Trumplican party either. So, in conclusion, the Republican Party now have a smaller and smaller voter pool to draw from. As long as three time loser Trump , who lost the presidency, Senate, and House is the party leader, they will forever, rightfully be the minority party, that gets smaller and smaller with each passing day.

 

BOTH Democrats and Republicans now embrace antichrist cultural marxism.

Trump promoted antichrists, sodomites and the replacement of White Americans with foreign nonwhites.

The USA will soon follow others who have likewise degenerated and imploded into the dustbin of history.

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That sounds so incredibly strange coming from someone who switched to the party who routinely calls the constitution outdated, suggesting radical changes to it and in many cases call for it to be done away with completely.

It’s difficult for me to fathom how one could come to the conclusion that the republicans have done anything even remotely comparable like the democrats predicating the entirety of their platform on social justice and fighting against all forms of white privilege in every sector of society.

A party who celebrates individuals who routinely assert that an entire race of people are unequivocally and universally racist based solely on the color of their skin. They assert that if you have white skin that your position in life is a result of your privilege. The democrat party and their ilk have become the very epitome of what MLK was speaking against when he said to judge people based upon the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

Furthermore they’re seeking to undermine the very foundations of our republic by arguing for the removal of the electoral college in order to cement perpetual control of the executive branch, packing the courts to cement perpetual control of the judicial branch and adding states to cement perpetual control of the senate. Not to mention attempting to give the power to control elections to congress as opposed to the states which is explicitly unconstitutional. But worry not, once they pack the courts, it will magically become constitutional.

How you can look at that and even remotely come to the conclusion that the republicans have moved away from moderates and not the democrats is completely beyond me. I get it, you didn’t like trump. But the policies of the Republican Party are so much closer aligned to that of what our country was intended to be than the democrat party that it’s laughable to suggest otherwise.

 

Don't you actually mean...those who LACK basic principals and SHARE basic character FLAWS...since that accurately describes YOUR biggest *LOSER*?

 

I think you are looking at this through strictly partisan glasses.
Truth is that more Americans identify themselves as independents than either one of the parties. Even if in actuality they are full throttled democrats or republicans.
HOWEVER there are far more self identifying democrats than there are republicans. Which means that more full throttled republicans are masquerading as independents than full throttled democrats.
SOooooo, the most disengenuous people out there are in fact republicans.

As to this board, I really haven't noticed if one side more than the other cliams to be independent while always supporting one side. i really think it is your partisanship that is making you see secret undercover democrats everywhere.

 

because I feel that much of what you posted is not true.

 

I’ll be happy to provide evidence of my claims. But you’ll find out soon enough.

 

I never voted for Mitt Romney. I did not like him. I think most Republicans were corrupt and fake including Bush and McCain who I no longer like. They all were pushing the same BS narrative and did nothing for us Americans.

Trump was not perfect but he was also not part of the establishment and had a narrative that he was for the American people. He was not tied to any group, he was controlled by No one and he was not a puppet. This is why I liked him so much. I wanted change and he brought that. The Democrats were sore losers and decided to act like 3 year olds for 4 years.

Im not a fan of many Republicans but overall the party is so much better than the Democrats. Trump started a trend and I'm hoping if he does not run Candace Owens will run continuing the trend of outsiders fighting for us and not corrupt millionaires in Congress.

The government has been corrupt for a long time and while Trump had his issues we still needed him for change. He also saved us from Hillary Clinton.

 

You are the king of wishfull thinking.

The Republican party is the biggest it has ever been and many independents don't like the Democrats. They are just the silent majority.

 

I agree. That's why I support the Libertarian Party.

 

Because everything's about skin color these days. Amiright?