{"id":224,"date":"2006-10-23T10:29:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/index.php\/?p=224"},"modified":"2006-12-07T22:40:41","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T03:40:41","slug":"republican-or-democrat-independants-are-the-only-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2006\/10\/23\/republican-or-democrat-independants-are-the-only-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican or Democrat?  Independants are the future."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Should I change my voter registration card? <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"line-height: 14.4pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">I am pro-choice. = <em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Democrat<\/span><\/em>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"line-height: 14.4pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">I don&#8217;t believe in same sex marriages (at least not those sanctioned by government what you do in your house is your business).  = <em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Moderate Republican<\/span><\/em>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"line-height: 14.4pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">I am obviously against &#8220;big business&#8221; and feel that corporate influence has no place in political legislation. = <em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Green Party<\/span><\/em>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"line-height: 14.4pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">I don&#8217;t think amnesty for illegal immigrants is an option.  Anyone here illegally broke the law.  Even if it&#8217;s a $1 fine then so be it.  But, the real way to solve this problem is to make it unaffordable for American companies to hire illegal immigrants.  No jobs = no incentive to hop the border.  If the cost of common goods go up slightly &#8211; deal with it. = <em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Independent<\/span><\/em>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"line-height: 14.4pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">I also feel that religion has no place in politics or legislation (America was not founded as a theocracy or &#8220;Christian nation&#8221; and should never become one).  If religion is to enter politics then all religions\u2019 must be equally represented, not just the Southern Baptist Convention.  = <em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Libertarian<\/span><\/em>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"line-height: 14.4pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">I am all about health care reform of any type. = <em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Anybody?&#8230;.anybody?&#8230; Spineless wusses&#8230;  You&#8217;re all afraid of America&#8217;s largest employment industry that&#8217;s busy bankrupting the middle class.<\/span><\/em>     <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">My point is that no single political party affiliation is going to encompass all of my beliefs.  I think the majority of Americans could make a list like this of their own and determine that they cannot vote straight ticket without sacrificing at least one social issue of personal importance.  We are now a nation facing issues that cannot be addressed by partisan political positions.  Democracy in its purest sense can only be recognized when each individual\u2019s position on each issue is taken into account.  Until we can trust the public at large with this responsibility we are dependant on our elected representatives.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Future representatives need to denounce &#8220;party lines&#8221; and tell us what <em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">they<\/span><\/em> believe in.  Not what their party believes in.  To this end we need many more Independent candidates.  We need candidates who do fear being labeled non-partisan which in turn sacrifices their party\u2019s financial support. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Independent candidacy will only be achieved when the nation\u2019s voter base comes to recognize the idea that a candidate doesn&#8217;t have to choose sides.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Running our country is not a sporting event where there are two teams and you have to be fan of one or the other.  By endorsing Independents\u2019 we can in effect have representation that reflects the position of the majority instead of settling for the closest match under our current model of choosing one of two sides.  The truest exercise of Democracy is supporting local Independent candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should I change my voter registration card? I am pro-choice. = Democrat I don&#8217;t believe in same sex marriages (at least not those sanctioned by government what you do in your house is your business). = Moderate Republican I am obviously against &#8220;big business&#8221; and feel that corporate influence has no place in political legislation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2006\/10\/23\/republican-or-democrat-independants-are-the-only-future\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republican or Democrat?  Independants are the future.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}