Corbyn and McGovern teach an important lesson: never, ever democratize your political party to where unelected members have veto power over actual politicians. Save the democracy for the general election.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Yes! Like, if the democratic party establishment had only stacked the primary debate schedule, information sharing, & superdelegate vote for a career politician instead of letting the leftist grassroots wing of the party take the lead, we’d never be in this mess.
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Replying to @Pinboard
“Save democracy for the general election” was more or less the DNC’s approach to the 2016 primary. Might be a lesson or two from that round of elections? Also, half-baked sarcasm, though given I have a tiny baby instead of a sleep schedule, I have no idea if it worked!
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Replying to @gobslapped
Hillary won that primary by every metric you can name—number of votes cast, number of primaries won, number of pledged delegates. Her opponent was a career politician who was not even a member of the political party. I like Bernie (he was my congressman) but this is nonsense
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Replying to @Pinboard
I never said she didn’t win legitimately—I’m aware she got more votes. Just not by anywhere near her 8-1 advantage in superdelegates. The vice chair of DNC did give her campaign debate ?s. So: to the nonzero extent the primary was cooked, it seems the politicians cooked it wrong.
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I can't find anything to disagree with there
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