Friday, February 7, 2020

Seven Down Seven More Caucuses To Kill - And We've Got To Kill Off "First In The Nation" In Favor Of A Nationwide Nominations Process

Listening to the DNC Chair Tom Perez on Rachel - via Youtube pirate - I was glad to hear him say something I hadn't known, that in 2017, after the disasters of the caucuses the year before, they gave incentives to states to junk the anti-democratic monstrosity in favor of primaries and seven of the 14 states that held 2016 caucuses did just that, which means seven states didn't.  Iowa was one, Nevada, which had the most obviously stupid process last time didn't, my state didn't.  Maine, I suspect, didn't because the state party is in the hands of the kind of petty idiots who value their tiny bit of turf held onto more than they do fulfilling the reason for the party to exist, ELECTING DEMOCRATS AND TAKING POWER.  

Why the DNC, after the disasters and the damage that the caucuses caused last time, didn't demand that all 14 give them up needs to be fixed because seven is too many, especially if one of those was the flag ship of the nominations season, Iowa.  If there are still Democratic caucuses held in 2024, anywhere, the DNC will have earned the same extinction that the caucuses do.  

As a decades long hater of caucuses I'm about fed up.  I talked to one person who, as I mentioned, was accused by the Bernie Bots of fixing it for Hillary Clinton, and he said he was going to tell the State Party that he would not do another one after this year.  I'm urging everyone who attends a caucus to make a motion at the start of it that they just count the ballots, in effect, that we are now asked to fill out with our preferences marked, and forego the idiocy of the caucus process.  And to send a message to the Maine Democratic Party, enough with the anti-democratic caucus bull shit and that we want Democrats only nominations by mail-in ballot. 

We need to kill the caucuses off, institute a reliable high-turnout elections format and to get rid of the lily white "First In The Nation" distinction. 

I think having a ballot sent to all registered Democrats in, maybe May, to be sent back before a deadline so they can be tabulated by an independent accounting firm with no ties to the Clintons or to Mayor Pete or other parties that will get the paranoid fanatasists of the play-left going would be entirely preferable to the way it's done now.  It would get the Green Party and Republican (I repeat myself) ratfuckers out of it, it would shield the Democratic nomination from Russian internet ratfucking and Mercer style ratfucking, too.  If it is done with observers from all of the campaigns looking on at every point, it would certainly remove some, though certainly, not all of the conspiracy and rumor mongering.  

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