It must be an age thing. I’ve liberated myself from political affiliation a year ago at age 42. At 18 I registered with the Republican Party because I was told by the family pastor and by my father that to do otherwise - and certainly to vote otherwise - was anti Christian, and that women must not attempt to spite God in the voting booth. Last year, after years of disenfranchisement and regarding the Party’s vitriolic rage-rhetoric with increasing dismay, I submitted the paperwork and officially left the GOP. I am savoring the glory of my mid life non associated wild-womanness. I imagine somewhere along the way I’ll register with some party in order to earn back the right to vote in the primaries, but for now I am happy NOT to be counted among the petulant, angry, patriarchal ranks of the GOP.