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How many times (if any) have you changed your political affiliation?

Change of political affiliation

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TheGirlNextDoor said:
During your lifetime, have you changed your political affiliation?

If you have, how many times.
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I changed for the first time from Democrat to Republican back in 2002. I would like to register Libertarian but that would keep me from voting in primaries here.
 
Rocketman said:
I changed for the first time from Democrat to Republican back in 2002. I would like to register Libertarian but that would keep me from voting in primaries here.
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Losing primary access was the biggest hurdle to me for registering "no party", but I eventually became so disgusted with both parties that I don't want either of them claiming my support even as a nameless number on a list.
 
TheGirlNextDoor said:
During your lifetime, have you changed your political affiliation?

If you have, how many times.
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Never been a party loyalist. Never belonged to a party until Bush II. Mostly voted for who I considered to be the better choice. No long belong to the democrat party now that Bush is no longer invading countries in a pretext. So I guess my answer is cup cakes.
 
instagramsci said:
That bit about hard work making your life better sounds more like idealism to me

I've known people who have worked hard their entire lives and have next to nothing to show for it
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If all you do is work day to day and never try to better yourself towards bigger and better opportunities than you will find yourself never going anywhere. Working hard doesn't just mean showing up to work and working your ass to the bone, but doing something in your life to better yourself to learn skills necessary to move up in the world.

Also are you implying that I'm a liberal
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Socialists are just worse. :2razz:
 
radcen said:
Losing primary access was the biggest hurdle to me for registering "no party", but I eventually became so disgusted with both parties that I don't want either of them claiming my support even as a nameless number on a list.
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I understand but my local elections are very important to me.
 
Henrin said:
If all you do is work day to day and never try to better yourself towards bigger and better opportunities than you will find yourself never going anywhere. Working hard doesn't just mean showing up to work and working your ass to the bone, but doing something in your life to better yourself to learn skills necessary to move up in the world.



Socialists are just worse. :2razz:
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Skill acquisition requires money and some people don't make that kind of money without taking out loans and going into debt, sometimes for a long time. The grace period between college graduation and beginning payments is coming to and end and what's going to happen then

Right right socialists are the bane of liberals existence because they are actually leftist
 
instagramsci said:
Skill acquisition requires money and some people don't make that kind of money without taking out loans and going into debt, sometimes for a long time. The grace period between college graduation and beginning payments is coming to and end and what's going to happen then
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No, it doesn't. You can learn many skills by simply learning them on your own free time. I learned how to program in C++. Java, C, C##, etc, with nothing but some books, a free program, and some free time. Hell, when I was going to college I worked for a web developer doing a skill that learned how to do in my free time when I was sixteen. I could be a damn artist if I felt like it too and again I learned how to draw, paint, even 3d model in my free time. I could be a mapper for a video game company if I felt like it as again I learned the skill in my free time and released many maps even a game using unreal development kit(free) using skills I learned in my free time. The myth that you need to have to go to college to learn a skill is blatantly false. Hell, you could start your own business if you wanted with almost nothing down. Need an idea on how? Buy used printer ink carriages, fill them with ink and resell them. See, its easy. You just have to think.

Right right socialists are the bane of liberals existence because they are actually leftist
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I wouldn't know. :2razz:
 
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Through the years, I have voted all over the place. In Canada, we have more than two parties and I have voted Conservative, Liberal, NDP and Green. What I won't do is pledge my allegiance to any of them.
 
Henrin said:
No, it doesn't. You can learn many skills by simply learning them on your own free time. I learned how to program in C++. Java, C, C##, etc, with nothing but some books, a free program, and some free time. Hell, when I was going to college I worked for a web developer doing a skill that learned how to do in my free time when I was sixteen. I could be a damn artist if I felt like it too and again I learned how to draw, paint, even 3d model in my free time. I could be a mapper for a video game company if I felt like it as again I learned the skill in my free time and released many maps even a game using unreal development kit(free) using skills I learned in my free time. The myth that you need to have to go to college to learn a skill is blatantly false. Hell, you could start your own business if you wanted with almost nothing down. Need an idea on how? Buy used printer ink carriages, fill them with ink and resell them. See, its easy. You just have to think.
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Well I never implied all of that but you make all of that sound as if its that easy and simple when there are a number of boundaries to overcome



Henrin said:
I wouldn't know. :2razz:
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Yes I'm sure you're highly perched on that Libertarianism Horse™ of yours
 
I sort of did while I was in the Air Force. I was under the mistaken notion that women should have the right to murder their unborn. It took someone not of my faith to explain (more of a reminder, actually) how wrong abortion advocates are. Needless to say that I was ashamed of how much I had slipped into the cesspools of the Left.
 
instagramsci said:
Well I never implied all of that but you make all of that sound as if its that easy and simple when there are a number of boundaries to overcome
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Nothing worth doing comes easy. If you expect things to come easy to you than I wish you well in life. You might just very well need a miracle if that is your train of thought.
 
a pox upon the Donkey & Elephant! Both are a blight upon this earth!

I say abandon the Donkey & Elephant fiasco entirely!

Thank U very much.
 
Henrin said:
Nothing worth doing comes easy. If you expect things to come easy to you than I wish you well in life. You might just very well need a miracle if that is your train of thought.
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That's debatable

Your condescension is palpable dude

I never said that nor do I expect it
 
instagramsci said:
That bit about hard work making your life better sounds more like idealism to me

I've known people who have worked hard their entire lives and have next to nothing to show for it
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;) Looks like a rereading of Ecclesiastes is in order :)
 
humbolt said:
I've settled on cannibalism. I have to admit it was inspired by watching the GOP routinely eat each other.
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That should be the joke of the week! :lamo :lamo :lamo
 
cpwill said:
;) Looks like a rereading of Ecclesiastes is in order :)
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Indeed. Nothing is no thing. If we measure all of life in terms of things acquired, we're using a rotten measure.
 
MoSurveyor said:
That should be the joke of the week! :lamo :lamo :lamo
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Glad you like it. Seriously though, being conservative, I look at the GOP with wonder. It's a weird amalgam of the stubborn and the spineless. A real box of chocolates.
 
Paschendale said:
I would say less changed and more refined. Barring some kind of huge shift like the movement of southern segregationists from D to R, I can't imagine ever voting Republican. There is basically no interest of mine that they represent. But I've certainly altered my views on a lot of specific issues, and that sometimes manifests in various third party votes.
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Sorry to have to inform, but the southern segregationists never moved from D to R. If you check, for instance, all the signatories, both Senators and Representatives, of the Southern Manifesto, which was in opposition to the Warren Court landmark decision of Brown v Board, only one, one single of these major infamous Democrat signatories moved from being D to R. Many of these Democrats also either went on to sustain or attain high status in the Democrat Party.

So you are just mistakenly continuing a myth.
 
TheGirlNextDoor said:
During your lifetime, have you changed your political affiliation?

If you have, how many times.
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If you mean changing the party I'd vote for ... I voted for three different parties so far, since I'm allowed to vote. (We currently have five parties in the parliament in Germany). But it was never a 180° turn, ideologically.

But then, I've always had greatest sympathies for one party and I guess it was and still is my default choice, unless there are special reasons to decide otherwise.
 
radcen said:
Ok. I don't recall having ever seen primaries for city/county anyplace that I have lived. Doesn't mean other places don't do it, though.
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We do in in every election for magistrates, county judge, sheriff, city council, and then again at all the state level positions, so unless you are democrat or republican you miss the primary
 
Yes. 4 times.
Liberal. Trotskyist. Libertarian Socialist. Democratic Socialist.
 
In High School, up until Senior year, I was pretty hard core Republican. Then I started to see things differently and aligned more closely with the Democratic Party (though never registered as one). Now I'm more with the Independence Party of Minnesota. Did some phone calls for them a couple of years ago.
 
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