Every Election Day, American voters are tasked with picking a side and tasked with identifying which candidate's values and ideas most closely align with their own. Almost always, it goes to a Democrat or Republican.
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But what does identifying with a party really mean in a country where 40% of us identify as independent and where recent events — like the rise of Donald Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd — have forced many Americans to rethink, and perhaps pivot, our personal and political identities?
Are political labels tearing the country apart?
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"Both parties have failed to address (big) issues in American politics (such as) increasing inequality," Elaine Kamarck, Director of the Brooking Institution's Center for Effective Public Managemen, told "Connect the Dots" recently. "Somehow the whole economic system is stacked against the little guy and in favor of the big guy."
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