Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

I'm not saying she's got my vote yet, but I appreciate that watching the @TiffanyBond campaign is like watching me run for Congress.https://twitter.com/TiffanyBond/status/944558271637217281 …

Thing is, an independent candidate splits the vote. We’ve seen the results before. Tiffany should run as a Democrat.

As an unenrolled voter, I couldn't disagree more. I'm only marginally more loyal to the disorganized, uninspiring Ds than I am the bullying Rs. Both parties are disasters right now and of no appeal. Neither speaks to or for me.

So why wouldn’t you want a candidate in one of those parties who does speak to you?

As an independent voter, I'm going to hold someone in higher regard who sticks their neck out for what they believe in, even if it is a tougher road, vs settling to join a system just because people say they are supposed to.

I would further posit we need to get out of this limiting concept that political ideology is a two-dimensional, linear slider between D and R. That you must be closer to one or the other, and therefore should join one. Ideology and beliefs are multidimensional.

U.S. political parties are coalitions with varied groups and points of view. That's because the incentives is for factions to join, as small parties don't get elected in the U.S. electoral system.