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Is the primary that big of a deal? Given the limited time for campaigning it seems reasonable that the party appoints a candidate they can all get behind.
I don't really understand though - we don't have primaries here. We expect our politicians to exhibit the suitability for the role by convincing their colleagues to back them - kinda like they'll have to do in the wider government should they get elected. The parties just publish their lists of candidates (ranked) and we just vote for the party.
Yeah the primary is where we choose the candidate to represent us. Without a primary we are robbed of our choice of who gets to run. We only get a choice between two parties.
It would be like me and all my asshole friends choosing the candidate that's gonna line our pockets for you to vote for. You have this one shit sandwich and a shotgun. Easy choice at first.
We've had a shit sandwich and a shotgun as our choices for the last 50 years. This time there are live rounds and a fuckwit's itching to use it and we still chose a shotgun over the shit sandwich.
In the past we had the opportunity to choose the toppings on the shit sandwich provided to us giving the illusion of choice. Still ends up being a shit sandwich.
With so many Americans on the brink, pain, debt, legal drugs you can't afford, a healthcare system designed to rob you blind, low wages, corporations spying on your every movement with every device known, a failed educational system, destitute, and I could go on and on, we chose the shotgun.
Do not listen to M'aiq. M'aiq is a liar.