Reply #37: Yeah, the Republicans under Bush are a real horror show...

[polichick]

...I knew enough about him to figure it would be ~ but who knew there would be no opposition party?! That's the shocker, and I still don't understand completely why the Dems have folded. But, for whatever reason, the party I've worked for my entire adult life has become irrelevant. You're thinking of joining in order to vote for Kucinich, and I'm thinking of signing on as an Independent but wondering if I should stay just long enough to cast a symbolic vote for Kucinich (our primary is too late to be anything other than symbolic).