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LWVSFC Discussion Forum

What Does Party Affiliation Mean?

3/24/2021

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First, thank you to the many participants in the March 23 Civil Discourse Conversation. Your thought-provoking comments definitely revealed more diversity of thinking than one might imagine. Our monthly Civil Discourse conversations emphasize hearing every voice in the room, and listening without cross-talk or direct comment on another person's words.
Every month right after the Civil Discourse Project's "Monday Conversation" we'll offer a chance to continue thinking together on the Forum. This time it's our chance to dialogue back and forth about political party affiliation in these times of tumult, polarization, and violence. What more do you have to say? Just click on the live "comment" link below and share your thoughts.

 If you were not able to make this second CDP conversation, on on Zoom, you are still welcome to join the conversation now.
"What does party affiliation mean to me?"

Want to learn more about these  monthly conversations? Email irene.epp@gmailcom.
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Stephanie Schlanger
3/25/2021 07:36:09 pm

Thinking more and more about how party affiliation has devolved into identity politics with little relationship to policies. Also how politicians seem more interested in protecting their incumbency than representing the people or advocating for the public or social good. How to fix this? I have changed my affiliation to “decline to state” knowing that excludes me from voting on the primary—but maybe if enough of the electorate declines to play by party rules, things will have to change?

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Irene
3/27/2021 05:44:14 pm

I have been registered as "independent" or "decline to state" all my voting life. The currently bemoaned polarization of the US has a long history. Venerated as though it is meant to be, the two party tradition amplifies the restraining characteristics of US republic-style democracy. It reflects a historic tendency in the US to restrict majority rule and compromise,
as well as supports distrust of our widely diverse citizenry. Compromise easily reverts to head to head confrontation. I'm encouraged to see that independent voter numbers are growing.
May this trend continue until it breaks the stranglehold of rigid and extreme party affiliation that undermines our democracy.

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