I am, actually. I don’t have a team. My identity is not tied to a party or a particular brand of politics. I want to see the world as it is, and use my best judgment. That places me above all of the people who’ve chosen a team and make the facts fit their biases.
You actually picked some poor examples. Trump supported Planned Parenthood from what I recall, and Clinton is more beholden to banks than Trump is. Charles Koch is thinking about endorsing Clinton in her presidential run. He’s more scared of Trump.
This actually is not my goal. I’m not particularly invested in progressive politics as a whole.
Yes, actually. That’s the only way you actually CAN influence the parties to give you a seat at the table. If Trump wins 48-45-7, and the 7% is Jill Stein, then the democrats are going to change their platform to try to be inclusive towards the things that 7% wants, so they can win again.
“Shut up and vote democrat no matter what” is what makes the democrats uninterested in actually representing the wants of their constituents. If you give them unfaltering loyalty no matter what they do, what interest do they have in actually serving what you want? They’ve got your loyalty and your vote no matter how hard they screw you over.
Right, because what the major political parties want is to push out people who are otherwise inclined to support them.