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The share of U.S. adults who are identifying with select political affiliations has gone

to an all time low for Democrats and Republicans at the very same time that independence has

actually increased.

So in 2004, 35% of the American people identified as Democrat, 33% as Republican, 31% as

independent.

Today in 2023, 49% of Americans identify as independent, only 25% respectively identify

as Democrat and Republican.

So basically half of the entire country sees themselves as politically independent at the

moment that approval for the two of the major parties is all the way at the bottom.

And that actually raises a lot of questions around the way that we even run our political

electoral system because we elevate people through primaries and then throw them at independence.

But if the vast majority of people don't believe in those parties themselves, then why are

we allowing hyper activist bases of people who we don't necessarily agree with us to surface

people who are then thrown at us in terms of our two options?

So I think it's really interesting.

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