This will be their narrative now.

  • @[email protected]
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    142 months ago

    That’s really a terrible way to make that assessment. I’m registered as a Republican in my state so I can vote in their primary, but that doesn’t reflect who I actually support.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      92 months ago

      How do you think the parties count their numbers?

      • @[email protected]
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        102 months ago

        That’s moderately useful for statistics purposes, but that’s all. It does not mean every individual person who registers as Republican believes in Republican values and votes for Republicans. Nor is it a complete list, plenty of states don’t require registration for primaries so there are lots of people who don’t bother declaring either way.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          42 months ago

          Then how do you define whether or not someone is a Democrat? Because Hannity insists this guy is one.

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            I personally prefer the idea that democrats and republicans are elected party members and party officials and that voters are Americans, who can choose to support any of (or none of) these independent organizations. In the same way that I am not a Seattle Kraken.

            (ETA: also, you can track a direct line of interest in treating politics like a team sport and what Hannity is trying to do, so literally as far away from that as you can get is what I’m talking about.)

            • Flying SquidOP
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              62 months ago

              Then Hannity was lying. The assassin was not a Democrat.

              • @[email protected]
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                62 months ago

                yeah I mean you could say that first sentence about anything 😃 but also yeah it’s increasingly uslessly reductive (other than to divide endlessly) to talk about individual Americans that way, in my opinion. I wish we’d stop. I think Hannity has a vested interest in promoting the idea that americans line up into two neat camps.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 months ago

            The same way I define if someone is gay, christian, or whatever other personal label, I ask them. If that’s not an option, I’m not going to make a judgement based on random shit.

            This guy was a complicated person who doesn’t seem to strongly identify with either party, obviously Hannity is full of shit, but that doesn’t mean we should lose sight of nuance in our reality.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      Have you considered not doing that? Considering that as far as Democratic Party spending is concerned there isn’t a discernable difference between a literal RINO and MAGA.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        Living in a deep red state, it’s the only chance I have to cast a vote that matters. Not just the presidency, but most of our state and local politicians are decided in the Republican primary. Half the positions I’m talking about literally run unopposed in the general election. So I’m going to keep voting for the lesser evil and doing what I can where I live.

      • @[email protected]
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        02 months ago

        Read my comments further down. Your party affiliation is whatever you decide it is. There are plenty of reasons to register, vote, or support candidates contrary to party affiliation. That doesn’t make you ‘not party X’ unless you decide you are no longer supporting party X. It seems pretty simple to me.

        • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie
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          There isn’t a democratic candidate I wouldn’t vote for. Doesn’t mean I identify as one. Not refuting you but your interpretation is much more complex then assigning based on actual affiliation.