Re: I would ask anybody here, what is good about this? It's a self inflicted wound.
MJG
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I would counter that the primaries aren't democracy - they are party politics. We don't get to "Democracy" until the general.
Both parties are within their rights to set the rules for their primaries. Additionally, there have been debates every round for decades about the order of the primaries, and how two lily white states have an outside influence on the rest of the diverse states later in the season - the states after Super Tuesday have been complaining for years that they have no say at all. I don't see that this has anything to do with Biden losing NH & Iowa - It's more to vary the playing field.
As for the super delegate ploy - no, just no. It's been floated, but the left of the party is against it in the wake of Wasserman Schultz's machinations and they are raising a stink. If it does get adopted it will be by a thin margin.
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Where once We the People held capitalism’s leash, now we wear the collar.
MJG
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I would counter that the primaries aren't democracy - they are party politics. We don't get to "Democracy" until the general.
Both parties are within their rights to set the rules for their primaries. Additionally, there have been debates every round for decades about the order of the primaries, and how two lily white states have an outside influence on the rest of the diverse states later in the season - the states after Super Tuesday have been complaining for years that they have no say at all. I don't see that this has anything to do with Biden losing NH & Iowa - It's more to vary the playing field.
As for the super delegate ploy - no, just no. It's been floated, but the left of the party is against it in the wake of Wasserman Schultz's machinations and they are raising a stink. If it does get adopted it will be by a thin margin.
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Where once We the People held capitalism’s leash, now we wear the collar.
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