I would absolutely love to agree with you, but unfortunately, I cannot. To do so would establish an unfair double standard that I would prefer not to create for the steemit community. See, the creation of @JPolitical96 associates with the fact that I had my supporters questioned why they continued to support me and a demand for those supporters to withdraw their backing from me. I was faced with a dilemma: either be silenced over a political issue or create a second account to hold my politics on as a distinction between my personal support and my political support.

If such a standard is to be made, then I concur that the standard ought to be rightfully applied towards the Alliance and SPL. Whereas you are the official spokesperson for SPL, the said witness is the political spokesperson given the already well-established reasoning I have provided above and enforced upon myself; providing support for a witness means believing in the witness's vision for the platform which can adequately assessed through the person's actions, opinions, and verbiage.

This isn't even a recent phenomenon, however, because it could be seen within the SPL's founder himself. Every single time he would give a contested opinion, the support for his SPL posts would be withdrawn, thus the necessary but slow transition of providing content on @SPL rather than his personal account. When an individual holds certain actions, opinions, or verbiage, his supporters reflect at least a fractional degree of representation for choosing to support the individual.