Ever since the last election I haven’t affiliated myself with either party. The slander and bickering was such a turnoff because when I would watch debates half the stuff they would say about the other side wouldn’t be true. It would be classic political slander. Each political party is battling for votes and I can’t respect that because I feel like they’ll say anything that would get me to vote for them.
I’m not alone in my way of thinking 39 percent of voters now identify themselves as independent instead of identifying with one of the two major political parties, according to a 2014 analysis by the Pew Research Center. That’s a pretty big shift from 2004, when the electorate was almost evenly divided into thirds by the three groups.
Most states require voters to affiliate with a party in order to take part in presidential primaries and caucuses. I completely disagree with this because I don’t want to affiliate with either party but if I don’t then I won’t be able to vote in these elections. I just feel like these parties cause way too much tension between the people In this country and I feel like sometimes they lie just so they benefit.
I feel like our generation will spearhead this change because Colorado has more than 1 million officially unaffiliated voters that outnumber Republicans and Democrats in the state. Both parties have about 900,000 registered voters.
Our generation is shunning political parties at an even greater rate than previous generations did, in part due to political dysfunction. We don’t pay them all that money to go to Washington and argue like kids. We elect them so they can make reasonable choices for the citizens of this country.
For far too long we have been our own little political party circle instead of researching things ourselves and forming our own opinions. There are conversations that need to be had and I believe this is one of them. My personal opinion is that the party system won’t have as big of an influence as it does now in the future. So what do you think about the political parties? Do you agree with me or do you disagree?
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