Di Leo: A Primary Challenge for the Future of Elections

American Free News Network ^ | January 25, AD 2024 | John F. Di Leo

[jfd1776]

The primary season begins, and thoughtful watchers of the passing scene are reminded yet again of one thing that has stuck in our craw for over 50 years now:

Why do outsiders get to choose a party’s nominee for the general election?

I know, this has gone without saying for so long that it may seem like a foreign concept, but it is worth reconsidering – because it wasn’t always like this.

For almost the first two centuries of our Republic, there were two kinds of candidates in any election: independent candidates and those selected by a political party.

You could run completely on your own as an independent candidate, or you could campaign for the nomination of an established party, thereby gaining that party’s volunteers, financial support, and the voters’ existing allegiance (party identification) in the process.

Since a party is an organization united around a shared philosophy of government, only members of that party naturally have any right to have a say in the selection of their champion in the fall election.

If the party has three or four, or five or ten, qualified candidates, seeking their nomination, this gives the members of that party the opportunity to choose the one who best represents their shared positions, the one they believe to be the most effective champion for their views.

Makes sense, doesn’t it? And it worked.

Can’t have that.

As the ongoing avalanche of governmental destruction that began in 1913 gained steam during the 20th century, the corruption and eventual end of this practice became one of the progressives’ top goals....

[Ancesthntr]

I have never understood why the parties - BOTH of them - allow crossover voting in primaries. Why let your opponents pick your nominee (or simply exhaust the will, and waste the money)? This needs to stop, yesterday.

[Does so]

Don’t call them “progressives”, when they’re Communists.

[Reily]

The “theory” is your testing the candidate’s appeal with the general electorate early. Goal again in theory to keep out “fringe” candidate’s. However the effect over time is to produce a bland inoffensive candidate.