This anonymity allows you to express viewpoints on various topics without any repercussions, that may come about if you were to reveal your identity.
People joining political parties should be offered the same luxury if only to propagate the myth that we live in a democracy and the misnomer attached to that of a "freedom of speech"
can you be serious? for democracy read, open and fairness.
democracy has nothing to do with secret societies.
just as the neo-facist's posing as the bnp have nothing to do with democracy.
its woolly headed thinking like that, that allowed them to come to power in germany, lead by adolf hitler.