I had been a democrat my whole adult life, contributing to democratic candidates dozens of times. I left the Democratic Party a few years ago. My reasoning is

I had been a democrat my whole adult life, contributing to democratic candidates dozens of times. I left the Democratic Party a few years ago. My reasoning is that it makes it easier for special interests to game the system if everyone is caged into just one of our two major political parties. The DNC and RNC shamefully service special interests, not public interests. If you disagree, I would be happy to debate this all day. I still do occasionally make donations to democrats who I think are exceptional and once to a republican candidate in my state who I thought was also exceptional, but I make sure that none of my contributions every again go to DNC (or RNC if I was not liberal). EDIT: what I am suggesting is that it would be best for our representative democracy if everyone registered independent.