Reply #31: Voting for Democrats and being a Democrat are two different things. [View All]

You can vote for a Democrat without being one. Perhaps that is your point, though I think you may be combining voting Democratic with self-identifying as a Democrat to create one entity. Voting for a Democrat doesn't inherently make the voter a Democrat, just like voting for Reagan didn't make Reagan Democrats Republicans, though many of them switched parties at a later date.

I'm a Democrat in the party sense, and I have no problem with that identity. As you noted, you tend to vote Democratic out of a lesser of two evils sense, but I don't think you really self-identify as a Democrat, based on the distinction I made above. I could be wrong, and if so, I apologize for the assumption.