Reply #28: Yep... this is going to be the mother of all sell-outs...

[Iowa]

I was in renewing my driver's license a few days ago and changed my party affiliation from Democrat to Independent. I have come to the conclusion that the once-great Democratic party no longer exists, and I don't want to be affiliated with the disaster that it has morphed into over the past 30 years. So I am no longer a member of a party that has become as bad, or worse, than the Republican party my grandfather despised 50 years ago.

"Democratic-Underground" should change its name to "Progressive-Underground", because there is absolutely nothing "underground" about the Democratic party. Unfortunately, the term "Democratic" has become synonymous with plutocratic, status-quo, establishment, corporatism. "Underground" really doesn't fit anymore.