From Right Wing activist to sensible Independent. One woman's journey

Carla at Preemptive Karma points us to a fascinating mea culpa by former rightwing activist turned Independent, Becky Miller.

Of particular interest to me is how Becky articulates her newfound perspective as an Indie:

Americans' response after 9/11 showed me it is not a hopeless situation. We clearly want to be unified; but the purveyors of hate keep people blinded to who we really are, and our lazy thinking keeps us from questioning the platform we are handed by our respective political teams. It is an intellectually freeing experience to become politically independent. I no longer feel like a traitor for believing something other than what is listed on a party platform, and a whole new world of information has been opened to me, just waiting to be researched. Some feel they can take their views into the party structure and change it from within. Based on my own experience, I don't believe it; I think people can only change the way things are by exerting pressure from outside the party system.

I concur!