LIV News: What independents want.

The upheaval in our political economy is frightening but also provides openings bursting with opportunity for independent, nonaligned voters.

Everyone in politics knows independent voters are the “great white whale” of politics. We do not salute any party. We shop the ballot and are not to be harnessed.

Independents broke for Trump in 2024, but not because we're easily misled. Though some independents still follow Trump because they're right-wingers, many genuinely conservative voters are disowning Trump for misleading them.

Some Democrats call Trump voters "stupid." They take no responsibility for how deeply they too have misled voters. Ironically, as a result, the upper echelons of the Democratic Party are becoming increasingly out of touch with their base, not to mention independents. 

This hilarious 15-minute video from the Glenn Greenwald show covers three leading national Democrats who could not answer a basic question about Israel asked by supportive podcasters. Meanwhile, younger Democrats and Republicans are clear that the tail (the Israel Lobby) needs to stop wagging the dog (U.S. foreign policy) and Donald Trump.

What do independent voters want?

We overwhelmingly want out of endless offensive wars, not just in Israel but in Ukraine as well. There's no way we're buying the made-up BS now to invade Venezuela and start our own unjustifiable war. 

We want budget cuts free from gross manipulations of those pushing to further bloat our military budget. Despite having failed its last 7 audits, the Pentagon is expected to fail audits through 2028. The DOGE utterly refused to cut $500 billion from the Pentagon as advised by former OMB Director under Reagan, David Stockman. Trump's BBB even gave Pete Hegseth and his Department of War a big increase!

Trump is obviously a clever politician and a dangerous policy boob. He effectively spun a great story about ending wars and saving our economy. Now we're about to invade Venezuela, the dollar is in deep trouble, and neither party has an affordable solution to the big crisis in the healthcare system that has shut down the government,

Partisan wars between the parties have us regular folks in the crossfire at all levels of government. What independents want is out of THIS swamp.

Government in Texas, at all levels, is coming unhinged. We have written extensively about our local organizing to show how some local governments are in the same hot messy swamp. 

But what can be done about this is NOT -- yet anyway -- a new "independent party", though we support the rights of minor parties, old and new.

What we desperately need is a big independent movement focused on the fundamentals that most Americans agree on, including members of established parties.

The smartest thing Donald Trump ever did was this. He unflinchingly took on his party's establishment, something the Dems must apparently relearn from days gone by when some fought Democratic machine politics. Bernie and AOC invariably come back to support the leadership because they are dutiful Democrats. Trump has no such dutiful intentions

We -- the independents -- must also stop repeating our own mistakes made during and after the Perot-led mass independent uprising 40 years ago. LIV founders were there. 

That's another discussion we're having amongst ourselves. Join us. We need you.

Linda Curtis

Chief Organizer and bottle-washer for LIV

PS The filing period to run in the 2026 election cycle for state and federal office opens on November 15 and closes on December 15. We are open to talking with all candidates.