When I was in hs in the 90’s my govt. teacher was a former lbj staffer so you can guess what that class was like.
However, he did teach us a lot about the american political process. He taught us that a party, at the convention, would debate the platform that the eeventual candidate would run on. Each topic in the platform was called a “plank”.
The delegates would debate, wrangle and argue, ll week until a platform was voted on a nominee was selected based on a comprimise by the delegates.
Now look what has happend. Only 4%, 4% of the states have voted and we’re being told who the nominee is going to be and what he’ll be running with. All we’re doing is electing a king. The next step down this road is that king taking over complete control.
This so called primary process is un-american and signals the end of representative govt.
Television destroyed the process.