30th June 2016, 11:27 AM
Quote:Why should parties allow people who don't even want to join their party to vote in their internal elections? That doesn't make any sense! I think closed primaries are good.
Because the results of those elections, rather than staying internal, eventually affect the entire country. Closed primaries exist for only one reason: to ensure that the people who are in control of the party suffer as little challenge as possible. Closed primaries protect the elite, so that they can continue to be the quasi-nobility they feel entitled to be. It's not any different in practice from requiring ID to vote and I feel exactly the same about proponents of both policies. The point is to disenfranchise. And it works.
For now.
btw: Hillary's margin-of-error lead over Trump is certainly inspiring.
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