That's right, I'm going to register Republican.
This Popular Front Democrat is going to switch parties to vote for Rep. Ron Paul in the primary here next year.
After the jump I'll explain why and then try and find a good hiding place.
Actually I'm one of the so-called Libertarian Democrats, but I digress.
I was watching a clip from Crooks & Liars the other day and it sparked off a thought process in my head that I haven't fully formed yet, and that's why I'm trying to air it out a bit here. There was some talk about the core beliefs of the two parties in our two party system. Those core beliefs being boiled down to economic and social beliefs.
Idealistically, I align with the D's on social issues and the R's on economic issues. My political compass is Libertarian Left next to Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and The Dali Lama. There's one big problem with my political ideology and how I perceive this US two party system. It is literally a big elephant in the room. The R's haven't been holding up their end of the bargain on the economy not to mention how Bush has just RUINED everything. So I registered as a D when I moved here to NC, but now I'm thinking that I should register Unaffiliated, but I'm not sure if the R's here let U's vote in their primary. (If you can point me to definitive proof that the R's will let U vote in their NC primaries then I'll switch to U. I have heard that they do let U's vote, so I need the deep linked source please.)
Why does the political system have to separate the parties into Liberal socially and Liberal economically against Conservative socially and Conservative economically? Why is there no 3rd party that is Liberal socially and Conservative economically?
THAT PARTY WOULD ROCK!