The line starts long before you got there, Irish. Ben Franklin and James Madison (among others) warned against allowing political parties to emerge in our political system. You're traveling in good company.

Personally, I joined mine because I wanted some say in which yabo I'd most likely be voting for come election time. But if I found a person on the other side of the aisle, or in a splinter group, that captured my interest....you'd better believe I'd jump ship.