What's bad is that even with the preponderance of historical evidence, there are still people who would absolutely return to these practices if the government let them. In many cases they do it anyway.
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joined 2 years ago
Yeah, and the grand jury was like "nah, cop did nothing wrong". No one blames the asshole that called the cops on the dude for no fucking reason either.
everything I said is fact. It occurs to me in retrospect that the person I'm responding to doesn't realize that primaries are essentially a private function. If you make your own political party, you can have primaries every day!
Everyone knows both world wars were won by a single anthropomorphic 1911 pistol.
Sometimes that's not right to do.
tl;dr: be the highest bidder.
That's just not how it works. If New Hampshire decides to put Steamboat Willy on the ballot, only the SC could stop them, maybe. it's kind of up in the air right now apparently.
Realistically, no one wants to give up that sweet national committee money, so they'll probably cave, and it is the rich owning democracy. That's why I kept saying you'd have to light money on fire to get it done, but it could theoretically be done: you just have to grease a lot of wheels.
Just so we're on the same page, each state decides how it chooses candidates to put on the ballot. That's the whole thing going on with DT and the SC right now.
Derived from that power is the president primary, where parties from each state decide who to present as their candidate.
The Democratic National Committee says "Ok, everyone should just submit Biden as the candidate and skip the primary" because that's what they decided is best.
It's now up to the state parties to implement that decision or not. New Hampshire, for example, decided to hold a primary anyway:
But it's politics, so who knows if it'll actually happen. I just want to point out that the national committee doesn't have power over what the states get to do, it's all just a power brokering game.
No primary this year
Well yeah, they already have an incumbent and no one was dumb enough to burn piles of money running a campaign to try and primary that candidate.
DNC influence
Yes, political parties are basically private clubs, you join them, donate money, pledge support etc. They aren't public entities any more than the Dallas Cowboys are. They exist to aggregate money and votes, and they elect their own leaders to manage those resources. If they decide to choose their candidate via tea leaves or throwing bones, no one could stop them, save to elect new party leaders.
I don't know how parties are run elsewhere, but thats how they work in the U.S. They aren't constitutionally codified or defended in any way. They're a shortcut for voters and super popular because they save people time and effort. If someone came up with a better way to all but guarantee votes for a candidate, it would instantly replace parties.
You are 100% allowed to join the DNC, run a campaign against Biden, and spend tons of time and money trying to convince the DNC to give you all their money instead of Biden for a presidential campaign. It won't work, but you can try.
Here's an article about 5 incumbent presidents that got primaried. Spoiler: they all won their primaries
https://time.com/5682760/incumbent-presidents-primary-challenges/
A gravid clown, a grave situation.
This post is like drinking a French Malbec after it's been used to deglaze a burnt pan, I love it.