Of course, as a life-long 'Republican,' I can say the same thing.
Now, a word of caution to former Democrats who are buying the 'Independent' tee-shirt. "Vote for the person, not the party," is a blind alley. "Independents," sad experience has shown, tend left-ward, and when a Democrat administration proposes, for far-fetched example, some strange lesbian from a notoriously Communist family, whose brother was head of the CPUSA, why that's who they back.
Oh wait, didn't "The Republicans" just do that a while back? Joe is obviously thinking about this, along with millions of others of us. There's the danger. The people running the show and their supporters don't have to think. They have a program, a plan, and millions of supporters ready to do whatever their leaders tell them. If that fails, since they have complete control of the nation's political infrastructure, they can achieve the results they want by fraud.
How do we get out of this?