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Insistent on being Switzerland (neutral)

My father is kind of funny when it comes to politics. He just simply will not talk about it. One problem is he doesn't follow it at all, so he rarely knows what's going on. When the topic arises, he repeats the same old line over and over again - "I don't talk about politics. I've voted Democrat, Republican and Independent before." Then that's the end of his piece. What he doesn't explain is why he voted for these people/parties. The only time I recall him voting Republican is when he was younger and a GOP candidate said he wanted to lower the drinking age to where it'd be legal for my father to drink alcohol. That's far from the Republican Party platform of today. He's still not 100% sure why he voted Independent (Perot), perhaps because he was a tad funny looking and Dana Carvey did a great impersonation of him - I don't really know. I'm not even 100% sure why he's voted for Democrats in the past, outside of the fact his paren...