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Also a supposed Democrat that run as a Republican and Republican that's running as a Democrat.

• nostromo 7y ago
  Bernie -- an Independent running as a Democrat. Trump - a former Democrat, now the Republican president Bloomberg - a former Republican, turned Independent, now running as a Democrat Parties used to have the power, but now it seems like popular politicians are picking the party they think provides them with the easiest path to power, realigning their policy views accordingly.
  • non-entity 7y ago
    At the very least I wish the parties would split themselves. The Democrats seems to have both a socdem wing and a more neoliberal wing and the Republicans a growing right wing populist wing and the standard neocons. Maybe this is oversimplified, but I feel like these should be different parties
    • geogra4 7y ago
      Yes. But they're kind of stuck to each other. Really I agree that we have 4 major constituencies stuck within 2 parties. First past the post and single member districts kind of force it to be that way.
      • axaxs 7y ago
        This is the sad truth. Try being a person who leans conservative, having the absolute racists of society be on your team. I imagine it's not much different than a liberal leaning person getting all the crazies on their side. I wish there were distinct parties for reasonable people...
  • huebomont 7y ago
    Bernie's "independent" label means very little. Look at how he votes. He's a Democrat. It's a weird attempted knock against him considering how consistent he's always been.
    • three_seagrass 7y ago
      I mean, is there a way to vote Yes/No but "indpendently" on bills?
      • jkestner 7y ago
        That's how it's done: https://www.multichannel.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_300/MTY5MTIzNjY5MTcwMjAxODg5/impeachment6.png https://www.multichannel.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_au...
        • three_seagrass 7y ago
          There's no Yay or Nay with independent.
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    • bubmiw 7y ago
      Bernie tried to primary Obama...he's independent
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  • Reedx 7y ago
    git merge first-party instead of git init or git merge 3rd-party That's the strategy being used because 3rd parties have no chance in our system. The only thing you can do is merge into one of the 2, become the new repo owner and reshape it going forward.
• mrguyorama 7y ago
  >supposed Democrat Trump was a registered democrat.
  • danso 7y ago
    Party registration is not an immutable property.
    • mrguyorama 7y ago
      I was pointing out that it was not "supposed" at all. Trump is a former democrat in exactly the same way that Bloomberg is a former republican. There was no reason to weasel word it
      • tomjakubowski 7y ago
        Bloomberg was elected two times as mayor on the Republican ticket. Trump was never elected as a Democrat.
      • danso 7y ago
        Fair enough. I think the more important thing is that Bloomberg registered as a Republican and then ran (and won) as a Republican for elected office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayoralty_of_Michael_Bloomberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayoralty_of_Michael_Bloomberg You can register whatever party you want as a regular citizen, but it doesn't dictate who you vote for or what you believe in or actually do.
        • takeda 7y ago
          Exactly, also Bloomberg only changed his party affiliation in 2018, when we had record number of voters during non presidential election, and Democrats winning large number of seats. Given other information about him, and even last debate he is the absolute weakest candidate, almost feels like he is there to spoil the election to help the incumbent.