2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I am Very Disappointed with the Democratic Party [View all]Time for change
(13,714 posts)except for one thing.
I too consider myself an independent, but I am registered as a Democrat, and I don't feel that I should be embarrassed about that. Why? Because I believe that I have as much right to vote in Democratic primaries as any Democrat, since there is currently no viable third party. If I was not registered as a Democrat I could not have voted for Bernie in the Florida Democratic primary. We need independents voting in Democratic primaries until a viable third party is created. We have the right to do that. Also, being registered as a Democratic puts me under no obligation whatsoever to vote for the Democratic nominee in the GE if I feel that that candidate doesn't represent my interests or the interests of the country.
I have no problem voting for Bernie in the Democratic primary, and then voting for him again in the GE if he runs as an independent and has a good chance of winning (i.e. not a spoiler candidate, which he wouldn't run as anyhow), which I'm pretty sure he will.