Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post

With two parties, if you vote on one issue, whether it is unions, civil rights, some social or business issue, or who won the Civil War, you get the whole package of views that come with the party. Being in a resource agency, my Republican friends are distressed at the anti-environmental tone of the party they otherwise favor.
also my complaint.

If your beliefs are half in one party and half in the other, really does it matter what party you belong to? You really just will be deciding which of the issues you believein are the ones you can work on without committing political suicide. Perhaps this guy accomplished everything he wanted to in the one party. Now it's time to do the other half!