Oh, I don't (hold my breath). I just do my thing on election day, fully expecting that the two major political parties' agendas will continue to merge. I certainly don't need to belong to a "party" to vote. And on election day I have a limited choice to cast my vote in a manner in which
I determine will be the best (and in many cases the least worst ... man that is terrible english) for the country. Regardless of all the bitchin I do the more things change, the more they stay the same.
I have to tell you that not being aligned, is rather "liberating".
Being a Republican meant a lot to me. I was the youngest member of the Republican Town Committee in the history of my hugely Democratic town (my mother was the Dem moderator). It was a no brainer for me -- the Republicans always seemed like the party of the successful.
I put off switching to unaffiliated until I came across a letter that Ward Connerly sent me. I had sent him an email when he had threatened to leave the party. In the email he used Reagan's quote about the Democrats -- "I didn't leave the party. It left me."
I switched that afternoon. It was melancholy, mostly because the Republican party is such an unbelievable disappointment.