• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Independents are people who don’t identify as democrats or republicans.

    Many independents are more progressive than mainstream dems. Some aren’t. But we’re a spectrum and it’s stupid to treat us as cohesive.

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      Thanks. That’s precisely why I’m wondering. By their token I’m “independent” as a NPA… but I’m NPA because there isn’t really a home for leftists in American politics.

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        5 months ago

        There’s actually a fair number of millennials who are independent because the dnc is a bunch of boomers that can’t stand that we’re functioning adults, and not because we’re necessarily more progressive than, say, AOC.