i think all parties including independents need to start being more active as far as the election process goes and it is set more younger people are not. host: bill in florida. let's hear from eric who joins us from maryland. also on our independent line. go ahead. caller: i was a democrat for my entire life until after the 2016 election. i will respond that way. democrats biggest problem is they lie about everything. it is the most extreme -- they accuse people of the most extreme things that are not happening. it continues through today.

i was at party meetings where i had leader heads telling people in the room that their own relatives wanted them dead and when i asked them if they believed this after a second or two of contemplation they said yes. that is the mentality of the democratic party these days. as for the republicans go, i am in maryland, they do not call us independent they call us unaffiliated. i have been unaffiliated since after the 2016 election. republicans cannot get their act together. they fight all the time. the george bush days when you went online and the party message -- there was no party message for the republicans. the democrats, the party message is ridiculous. you can see it from a mile away. host: when it comes to that

party messaging, project lead amongst republicans and i think you were talking about disagreeing with their infighting. why you think that exists? caller: republicans have always been that way since i first looked into political parties as a kid when i first went to vote and decided what party are was going to belong to come the republicans have not had a coherent message that they all stick to. you see the democrats, when they go and say something you can literally see they got the memo because every one of the democrats is using the same words. identical words. that is also a tip for propaganda. republicans do not have a cohesiveness and they always fail in the end because they do not have a backbone. the least i can say about the democrats, no