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[justatwink]

"Rebpublicans are fuckin' idiots and democrats are fuckin' idiots. Conservatives are idiots and liberals are idiots. Anyone that makes up their mind before they hear the issue is a fuckin' fool!"

-Chris Rock

He just summed up why I'm not registered with any party and why I don't like calling myself a liberal.

Comments

[mylifeasamoose]

I don't see being able to vote in the primaries as a benefit of registration, but instead as one of the serious defects in the party system. I have no problem with parties wishing to choose who represents them, but in our already-broken two-party system, this doesn't really seem to bring out the best representatives of any party. in fact, I think we have recently been getting only the scummiest of the parties at the higher levels (except for various state/congress-level exceptions). I mean, Kerry versus Bush? Psh.

I do see that having the ear of your representative(s) would be a good thing, but I don't like that it requires further advancing a flawed system to do so. Sounda like a Catch-22 to me.

but if we're going to try to dissect an obnoxious comedian's line and make it a detailed synospsis of the state of affairs, I think we'll end up with little productive. You could either take it at face value, in which case it's just as ignorant as it is insightful, or use it to have the discussion that we've already had about various pros, cons, and perceptions of the system.

which led me to my Part II, as that aspect of the effect of labels is much more relevant to the idea of registration than whether or not the label itself does anything.

words are used to represent ideas. when they are used carelessly or half-heartedly, then the ideas themselves lose their significance. random semi-relevant thought thus, the label itself won't affect the vote, as words are not equivalent to ideas. this is why I discussed the converse aspect of the question, being, why register?

and for someone who holds no desire to mingle in the political realm, nor wishes to further the broken parts of "the system" any more than necessary, I'm not sure there really are any benefits to registering or labeling.