I am an independent. Mine was the BLM riots, anti-white hate campaign, and discovery of Critical Race Theory. It happened pretty much all at once for me.
My views are old-school liberal. Essential government only with states wielding most of the power, and every individual treated equally under the law and no corporate/individual conflation. Where, exactly, you draw the line of "essential" I understand rests on the people, and it'll vary between areas.
My largest radical viewpoint is that people should be able to claim independence from a state and join another state or even form a new state with a house-district vote versus the convoluted process we have now. I believe this would keep states from moving away from their people or the people could leave......and maybe require like 600 stars on the flag.
Anyway, in 2016 I had a tough choice to make, Gary Johnson - who said the right things to my ears - or Trump -who had no record at all and was an obnoxious loud mouth. Johnson's voting record always bothered me but Trump sounded like a typical rabble-rousing bag of air.
I changed my vote in-line to drop my vote off. I eavesdropped on a couple wrestling with the same issues I was and the woman had gone Trump over Johnson for one reason: He was an outsider and was less likely to be part of the machine (aka swamp), and he'd be dead in 8 years after the presidency sucked the life out of him, so he wouldn't benefit from anything he did.
Those 5 minutes changed how I viewed the election and the parties running, and I went Trump. Since then, he's actually succeeded in doing things Johnson said he'd just be starting.
I'm sold on Trump, now. My only complaint is that he relies too heavily on swamp creatures in his administration. He should knock that off.
My views are old-school liberal. Essential government only with states wielding most of the power, and every individual treated equally under the law and no corporate/individual conflation. Where, exactly, you draw the line of "essential" I understand rests on the people, and it'll vary between areas.
My largest radical viewpoint is that people should be able to claim independence from a state and join another state or even form a new state with a house-district vote versus the convoluted process we have now. I believe this would keep states from moving away from their people or the people could leave......and maybe require like 600 stars on the flag.
Anyway, in 2016 I had a tough choice to make, Gary Johnson - who said the right things to my ears - or Trump -who had no record at all and was an obnoxious loud mouth. Johnson's voting record always bothered me but Trump sounded like a typical rabble-rousing bag of air.
I changed my vote in-line to drop my vote off. I eavesdropped on a couple wrestling with the same issues I was and the woman had gone Trump over Johnson for one reason: He was an outsider and was less likely to be part of the machine (aka swamp), and he'd be dead in 8 years after the presidency sucked the life out of him, so he wouldn't benefit from anything he did.
Those 5 minutes changed how I viewed the election and the parties running, and I went Trump. Since then, he's actually succeeded in doing things Johnson said he'd just be starting.
I'm sold on Trump, now. My only complaint is that he relies too heavily on swamp creatures in his administration. He should knock that off.