It is worth pointing out that the degree of "democracy" we've built into our party nomination system is in fact an outlier globally and a weird thing about the American system (one partly enabled by this being a huge country with 50 states)https://twitter.com/fabianfantasist/status/1293940067421978624 …
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My hot take is that - looking at the Republican side more than the Democratic side - 2016 may have been evidence that turning the nomination process into a popular democracy circus may have been a very bad idea
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But it's very hard to walk it back after you've made a system a popular democracy, to go back to smoke-filled rooms
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Anyway I find it ironic and amusing that this year the Green Party electorate exploded in anger over their primary process was "rigged", as though this is a meaningful thing to fight about when you're a tiny symbolic third party
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Yeah, I mean, say what you will about the electoral college, but it's quite a bit more democratic than letting Parliament pick the head of gov't.
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I think you’re conflating things. You could have primaries without The Electoral College.
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yep, most democracies just sort their candidates by internal intra-party votes where the common people has ZERO agency in it. An actually, your sistem having that, is equivalent a "multy party" sistem, cuz you can have flavours of left and right fighting for the candidacy.
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And you even have primaries for local candidates! Here in Canada, district candidates are chosen through some obscure process, and probably just hand-picked by the party leadership and maybe rubberstamped by the local members?
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Also, the party leader becomes the prime minister, and they're the one who get to pick which other elected MPs become part of the cabinet. So making noise à la AOC against the leadership is just going to be a career ender. Also, leadership can veto your candidacy
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I've always thought your system is weird in that you have PUBLIC elections for *party* leadership candidates. Like the Democrats and Republicans should run their own damn leadership contests like the independent organizations they are, and restrict it to party members.
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