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In reply to the discussion: JUST STOP IT! [View all]George II
(67,782 posts)"It would be hypocritical of me to run as a Democrat because of the things I have said about the party."
"The Democratic and Republican parties are tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum, they both adhere to an ideology of greed and vulgarity."
Why should we work within the Democratic Party if we dont agree with anything the Democratic Party says?
I am extremely proud to be an independent. The fact that I am not a Democrat gives me the freedom to speak out on the floor of the House, to vote against both the Democratic and Republican proposals.
My own feeling is that the Democratic Party is ideologically bankrupt.
"One can argue that the two-party system is a sham."
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a liberal Democrat."
The main difference between the Democrats and the Republicans in this city, he said in an interview in Burlington in July with a Cornell student writing a masters thesis, is that the Democrats are in insurance and the Republicans are in banking.
I am not a Democrat, period.
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