As I wrote, registering as an independent is largely symbolic, but I see no need to declare affiliation with a party. That is especially true due to the warlike state between the parties.

I don't see all ideas as equal or worthy of respect. I do try to understand why people believe some of the things they belief. Far too often it is confirmation bias rather than a reason to hold a worldview. But sometimes they have reasons that are not just confirmation bias, but rather from their experience. That doesn't make them correct or good, but it does help me to not become a member of the radicalized extremes of partisan politics.

Once it becomes war, there are no good guys and bad guys. There are only our guys and their guys. Like the draftee who arrived in my platoon thinking we were the bad guys and Uncle Ho was correct, when the bullets flew that idea vanished like a fart in the wind.

You wrote, "For me there is only one political issue: the survival of the natural kingdom." I agree, but at the moment I see the biggest threat to that as the hostility between political rivals that increasingly looks like an increased desire for violence in the thought that the solution would be the death of "those people" that you expressed.