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Martha Stewart was railroaded. Members of Congress - and some of the worst are members of my own party - regularly do worse.
Oh, but, yeah, sincerely: the meme is clever and funny.
Are you a politician?
No, but I'm a registered Democrat. I've lived in several states, and not all of them allow you to vote in their primaries of you're not a registered member. So the Democrat party is my party.
Now, if we ever get rid of the electoral college, and replace FPtP with approval out ranked-choice voting (or, almost literally anything else besides FPtP), that'll change. But for now, I accept the reality that we vote for the lesser of two evils, or we throw away our vote in a futile, and unnoticed, gesture.
You can be a member of a party without being a politician. As far as I understand it (I could be wrong, not American), the process for signing up in the US is a state-by-state thing, not at the federal level.