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[Tierra_y_Libertad]

37. As I said, political expediency and hypocrisy explains that.

I've never believed that politicians don't lie, procrastinate, triangulate, pander, obfuscate, and indulge in truthiness, etc, in order to get elected. It goes with the job and I accept that.

But, sometimes they go too far. I don't mind if they vote to name bridges after Ronald Reagan or go to church when they're atheists or eat Saurkraut in German neighborhood and bagels in Jewish neighborhoods while yearning for Chinese food. I don't even mind if the cheat on their spouses while regaling us with their love for family values.

But, when they start collaborating with Republicans, voting for wars they know are they know are unnecessary, eagerly seek out money from plutocrats, vote for things like "welfare reform", etc, then rely on "not as bad" to get our votes, I get off the train.

In my state there is no registration by party since (IIRC) 2008. I registered as Democrat when I moved here in 1993 but officially I'm like all Washingtonians an Independent. Which is fine by me because I've never been wedded to the party since I first registered in 1965.

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." --Thomas Jefferson