Thursday, January 2, 2020

As We Descend Into Iowa Caucus Bullshit News

I ran across one of the Bernie or Busters who I generally avoid online spewing in the same old angry-teenager way about how Bernie was done dirty in 2016, going on and on and on about his greatest claim to having been cheated, touting his performance in the goddamned friggin' CAUCUSES!. 

It can be anticipated that I'll be railing against the anti-democratic, 19th century  idiocy of the Democratic Party not abolishing the caucuses in favor of the far more democratic use of primaries in its presidential nomination process.  Caucuses never, ever have the same participation as a primary, that, alone is an excellent reason for the Democratic Party to require states to participate in the nomination through a primary and to refuse to seat delegates chosen through the caucuses that so many states, mine included, have idiotically retained. 

That the dumb bunny who is going on and on about that comes from Washington State makes her whining especially stupid.  Washington state has proved, beyond any doubt, that the most democratic form of election in use in the United States is a general election done by mail.   It proved that if the Democratic Party wants to have the nominee be the choice of the most voters it would be done through a primary by registered Democrats done by ballots sent through the mail.  In 2016, as I recall, they had both a caucus which had a minuscule participation and a primary which had a much larger turn out.  Bernie Sanders was able to rally his cult to come out and win the caucus, but he lost the far larger vote in the non-binding primary election.   

The caucuses should be abolished in favor of primaries, the primaries should be conducted by the Democratic Party WITH FULL TRANSPARENCY OF PROCESS and done by mail-in ballots sent to only registered Democrats who have been a registered Democrat for six months or more before the ballots are sent out, or since they turned 18, if they are younger than 19.   They should get rid of the ratfucking that can be done through open primaries and states that allow same-day party declaration - I personally, with my own eyes saw Greens screwing with the Democratic primary in 2000 and 2016 using both of those.  I still say Democrats should flood the Green Party and shut it down, they're a Repubican Trojan-horse of the "left" and it's becoming clear that Bernie Sanders followers are the same thing.  

And while they're at it, they should displace Iowa and New Hampshire's "first in the nation" status.  The nominating primary should be nation-wide, no region dominating, a Democrat in Alabama or Wyoming having the same share of the decision as one in Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina.  One could be conducted in a far shorter window of time than the current atrocity of a nominations process. 

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