A Black Falcon Wrote:Open primaries are such a common idea worldwide that the US might be the only country that allows an idea as crazy as open primaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_primary Note how the article doesn't mention even one other place that has them, since they probably don't. When Britain has its party leadership elections later this year for example, only members of each party will be allowed to vote.
Being common doesn't make it good or right.
Quote:Other countries are either the same, or dispense with any democracy and just have party leaders choose the nominees. The former is good, the latter bad (the people should have a say!).
You just quoted Kos advocating dispensing with democracy and your reaction was "He is absolutely right".
Quote:Beyond that, saying that anyone who supports Hillary is "Third Way" is both quite insulting and patently absurd.
The Third Way exists to pull the Democratic Party away from the progressive 'fringe' and more towards a moderate and centrist platform (out of the belief that America is still a center-right country) so to call you and your candidate 'Third Way' is definitely an insult but it is also a precise and accurate description.
Quote:This is exactly the kind of crazy conspiratorial nonsense I refer to in my previous post. There is one party in trouble now, but it's not ours! It's Trump's, as he tears apart that party. We're doing fine, apart from the constant failures to come up with a way to get Democratic voters to vote on off-year elections. But this is a presidential year, so no such issue this time! It's going to be a good election, I think, and all the polling is looking good as well. The Dems should pick up multiple Senate seats, have a good chance at winning back the Senate majority, will probably win the Presidency by a wide margin, and we should gain in the House and in state-level races, too. Things are going well, for now.
Yeah, you tell yourself that if it makes you feel better. Things are going so well that the Party is struggling to hold onto the only branch of government Republicans don't dominate outright.
But, young voters, those who are our age and younger, whose who, in the next two decades will become the majority of the electorate, rejected your candidate and your politics resoundingly. Clinton was not even remotely competitive in the 17-29 demographic and the 30-44 demo was still overwhelmingly embracing of a major paradigm shift. You think that bodes well for the future of a party that has put a lot more effort into telling them their opinions don't matter? Think they'll forget how their incompetence and sloth has facilitated and helped the Tea Party Republicans to take over huge swatches of the country without even pretending to fight? You think they'll forget and just fall into line?
The GOP is fucked right now. The Democrats are fucked maybe in a few years. The only way that is averted is by overthrowing the chumps running it now, because they've done an abominable job of it.
Quote:Because people have done such a good job of proving the truth of that claim. Or have yo ustill not bothered to read anything I linked about all the sexism Hillary is facing?
I don't question that she faces sexism. I deny that Bernie Sanders transformed this election because the overwhelming majority (or even a noteworthy minority) of voters under 50 are against the idea of a woman president.
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