> but if it means you have to join and participate in party activity Yeah. But my shiny karma doesn't want me to join a party whose policies I disagree with, j

> but if it means you have to join and participate in party activity Yeah. But my shiny karma doesn't want me to join a party whose policies I disagree with, just so I can influence their choice of candidates. That seems hypocritical, and I regard hypocrisy as the cardinal political "sin". I've never agreed with the policies of any parties, so I have never joined a political party. The closest I got was that I joined CND, about 40 years ago. I quit about 39 years ago.