The Politically Homeless
What do you call yourself when both political teams keep handing you a package deal and you keep refusing to buy the whole box?
You are allowed to think issue by issue.
You can agree with the right on one question, the left on another, neither on the next, and still be perfectly coherent. Politics is not supposed to require a subscription plan.
The Politically Homeless is for people who are less interested in belonging to a camp than in figuring out what is true, workable, constitutional, humane, and consistent.
What tribal politics costs us
When political identity becomes personal identity, disagreement starts to feel like betrayal. We lose nuance. We stop granting good faith. We excuse bad arguments from our own side and reject good arguments from the other side before they are even finished.
Eventually, persuasion becomes almost impossible because nobody is talking to the person in front of them anymore. They are talking to a caricature.
This is not a new political tribe.
The point is not to build another team for people who hate teams. The point is to create room for independence, consistency, disagreement, and the possibility that no party has a monopoly on wisdom.
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