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In reply to the discussion: Sanders-backed DNC plan sparks superdelegate revolt [View all]still_one
(98,883 posts)speaks volumes about where you are coming from than anything else.
Registered Democrats should be the ones who decide who will be their parties nominee, NOT someone who does NOT want to be identifed as a Democrat. I do NOT want a republican, independent, or THIRD PARTY voter to decide WHO SHOULD BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, and the lame excuse that public officals, clergy, and others may want to keep their political party affiliation anonymous is nonesense.
People are not naïve about the folks pushing to have NON-DEMOCRATS help choose their parties nominee, and it has nothing to do with public officials and clergy wanting to remain anonymous.
The solution is very simple if they want to remain anonymous, just change the rules so the registration form party affiliation won't be made public.
Of course that is NOT the real motivation of those who want open primaries for Presidential elections. They want open primaries because they want third party control of the Democratic party, and in fact they want to destroy the Democratic party.
But keep pushing this divisive bullshit, and see if some of those self-identified progressives who REFUSED TO VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE in 2016, can f**k up the midterm elections like they did 2016, which allowed the republicans to place in the SC court TWO conservative justices, and then blame it on everybody but themselves.
Every DEMOCRAT running for Senate in those critical swing states in 2016 lost to the incumbent, establishment, republican, because of that bullshit, undermining, lies, and distortion of the Democratic party from some of these so-called self-identified progressives, who did their damnedest to discourage people from voting by their false equivalency bullshit between the two parties.
This is just the same usual suspects from 2000, who said a vote for Gore was a vote for bush.
You don't want to be registered as a Democrat, then you don't get to choose who the DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IS FOR PRESIDENT.