A Call to Hope from an Independent Voter (me)
Independents could be the new progressives of the future. Here’s why
I am the undecided unicorn voter you’ve been searching for. And I am not undecided really — I am morally torn.
Being torn in half by two questionable choices is nothing new for me. My first time was post-9/11 when President Bush declared the Axis of Evil and insisted, “You’re either with us or against us.” I was a 12-year-old “other” — a white half-middle eastern kid shunned to the margins of a town of churches and pizza places. I lived in the grey nuances then, and now, I am eager to mix the blue and red parties and make America purple.
And I am not alone.
About 42 percent of Americans identify as independents, according to this recent Gallup poll. “Millions of independent thinkers — polled at almost 70 percent of the American population and labeled ‘the exhausted majority’ [in 2019] — are harboring intense feelings of political homelessness and ideological isolation,” as Bridget Phetasy explores in ‘The battle cry of the politically homeless.’
Here’s what this means for me as a voter.
My conscience cannot rest voting for Trump whose words have been deemed “the language of domestic violence” even amid the orders the current…
