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change their party label would they not be the critical caucus that nothing would move without their support? and that would then force compromise? possibly. but when you look at the independents and you mentioned them, angus king, bernie sanders and the democratic side, they caucus with the democrats. when there s han independent on the republican side, they caucus with the republicans. it s because of the structural imperatives i mentioned, if you want to be effective inside the system. it s very difficult to be independent. everything forces you to one side or the other. which we probably should do away with the caucus system and just have rather than party lunches every week, a lunch with 100% there, something like that dealing with those things. but the broader point you re making is, it s very difficult to have an independent party in our country, we go back to the getting on the ballot as an independent, very difficult in my state it requires tens of thousands of signatures, c