In a lot of countries voting is by secret ballot so why in the US do people have their affiliation publicly registered? The point of secret ballots is to avoid harassment from political opponents, is this not a problem over there?
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I despise this party affiliation bit. What if I’m an undecided voter? Shouldn’t I be able to choose the best candidate from any party to represent me? Yeah, yeah, all the rhetoric about how that can be abused by “the other party”. So? All this does is push the “party” representation to either extreme and leaves the middle, where compromise and true governing actually happen, in the dust.
If you don’t think so, look how extreme the reps in the house have become over the last several years. Fear mongering and sensationalism is how they drive people to vote. It makes things black and white in many people’s minds and removes the need for any honest comparison, evaluation or assessment. It’s the expansion of, for example, abortion good vs. abortion bad. There’s no middle ground.
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