about the "independents"
Ok, let me do the disclaimers:
Yes, I understand there are some "independents" who have a genuine distrist of, if not loathing for, both Democrats and Republicans. Either some issue that was importantjust kept getting back burnered, or they simply do not like what left and right have become. If you are one of these, I am not aiming this at you. However, let us face facts. There are many who call themselves "independents", or "centrists" who, simply put, are the rats who left the GOP ship when they realized that yes, the GOP was willing to let the inmates run the asylum provided they got paid. Many of these folks became Democrats, and when i say that, let me be very clear: they started flying the flag, but they carried on their buisness very much as they did before. Worse yet, they made themselves the focus of the Democrats. After all, people were still blaming all those dirty hippies for reagan, and right from the first time Bill Clinton mocked Jerry Brown and said "You're from California, chill out" it became very clear that they expected liberals to sit in the back of the bus, lest they get run over by it.
And today, we are stuck having to make a choice between those that hate liberals and those that would glady behead people Isis style if they thought they could get away with it, and yes, they are working on getting away with it. I will have to choke down Charlie Crist, because I know as is, it will take years to undo all the harm Rick Scott did to my state. However, I am not blind to the way that Florida democrats leaned rightward, to the point where even this very board allowed people to encourage people to abandon kendrick meek, for fear Rubio would become Senator. Of course, our head, Debbie Wasserman Schulz, has had a long hisotry of throwing liberals to the dogs.
However, since many of the self-appointed "centrists" frankly do not care about anything that does not affect them, let me offer some tidbits. Obama has bent over backwards to be bipartisan, and all it got him was hatred, as well as backstabbing by the Clintons. Eventually, two things will happen: One, the Right wing will simply get enopugh power to where they do nto even have to pretend to care about being bipartisan. If Billy Bob Tea party guy decides to shoot you, there will be a time when juries simply rubber stamp the idea. It already happened to Trayvon Martin, but it will get to the point where pale skin and a fat wallet offers no protection. The you will look for help from the same people you ignored, the very same people you yelled at for sayign "white priviledge:" exists, and they will offer you the solace that is exists no more. Second, if you think the rest of the world does not see what is happeneing, you are blind. Isis knows Hillary will giver them the war they wanted. China knows what side of the party gave them all the breaks they needed, and the Russians know that they can get away with murder because American centrism will, in the end, bow out to whoever throws around the cash.
And for those ones that still say "But really, I am not a Right wing type, I am an INDEPENDENT" I offer you somethign fitting, a misquote.
JFK thought Dante said 'The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.'" It was a misquote, but still fitting. It refers to a part in the inferno where, contrary to what you might think, the "neutral" types are actually considered worst than the worst sinners, because they would not serve Heaven or Hell.
"And he to me: "This miserable way
is taken by the sorry souls of those
who lived without disgrace and without praise.
They now commingle with the coward angels,
the company of those who were not rebels
nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.
The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened,
have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them -
even the wicked cannot glory in them."
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Fast-Facts/Dante.aspx
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-07/news/mn-3575_1_hillary-clinton