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The strength of one's positions can certainly identify one as moderate. The degree of mixing of someone's positions can certainly identify one as independent. Both concepts are valid positions.
'Moderate' doesn't mean anything for anyone's total political outlook to define them as one.
'Independent' can only mean you make up your own mind, which everyone already does anyway.
'Unaffiliated' is simply the lack of affiliation. It's not a positive 'I belong to this group' political identity. Ironically, taking the 'unaffiliated' label affiliates you with the 'unaffiliated', making them all a group, which they claim they are not yet shot themselves in the foot by taking the label. This is why I previously equated them with the emo-goths of high-school; they conform to each-other in their anti-conformism, dressing and acting like each-other.
Its like "Im such a non-conformist, that I'll just conform myself to a group of "non-conformists"
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