Our founder never envisioned political parties, much less that anyone who didn’t invest time in that organization, do the heavy lifting when there is no big exciting race should be able to tell the party what to do. It’s called Freedom of Association.
Second, we live in a Republic not a democracy. I know it’s hard when words like wall, and Lyin Ted, and Yuge are cluttering up the mental circuits, but see if you can figure out the difference.
When there is no representation of the The People its not a Republic. When you cannot distinguish the method of choosing the “reps” from how its done in North Korea and Cuba its not a republic.
“Voters don’t matter” is the same as “Taxation without representation.” Americans get this and are justifiably sharpening their Pitch forks.
While we may not live in a democracy, we do live in a representative Republic and when the rights and the will of the people are not put into motion by Representatives that they have selected it is Criminal.
It is against the foundation of this nation and it is an affront to everything that is Holy.
Making rules that subvert the right of people within National political organizations to be represented proportionally by their strength is a subversion of every principle foundational to the formation of this nation.
In recent decades people have shortened that concept into the single word democracy. In the strict sense of the term that may be wrong
But once again we all know what they’re talking about. There must be no rules made without full representation of the people, by the people, or for the people.
Lecturing us about the definition of a word from the Webster’s Dictionary while ignoring the colloquial meaning of that word is disingenuous.
Some people have attempted to use that argument to justify political actions that are anti-representational government and that would also be considered anti-democratic in the common parlance.
And allowing parties to subvert the representational form and function of governments both state and local is wrong morally, ethically and politically.
Closing the representative process to an ever-smaller group of people who pay for access or who manipulate for access and who have not been exposed to vetting by the population of the state or local government that they are attempting to govern is Criminal even if they use the sock puppet of a political party to carry it out.
Colorado and Wyoming are too blatant examples that have been steadily degrading the ratio, accessibility and selectability of their slate of delegates.
This is happening relative to a presidential election. And apparently they’re using this contrived party process to subvert the revealed and expressed will of the people to select those delegates of their choice to a national nominating convention.
It’s wrong and it’s wrong wherever it’s done. The excuse of it’s okay because I stayed within the rules of the party that I made up to protect my power does not make it right.
When the rules are wrong the outcome is immoral. That’s what we’re seeing here and all of Middle America thinks it stinks to high heaven. That means it doesn’t matter what the Republican Party says. America sees what they have done instinctively and knows that it was wrong.
It is destroying Ted’s backers, the GOP e which lies at the root of dirty Ted’s campaign.
It is good they are out of the closet on this. Fully exposed along with all those who take pleasure in the wickedness of technically enhanced corruption. Puke city.