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[MADem]

149. You want to play, you have to join the club.

What, should we allow the Nazi Party, the White Supremacist Party, the Libertarians and the Flat Earthers to vote in the Democratic Party primary...."just because?"

If you want to change the party--join it. Otherwise, go form a third party and knock yourselves out.

We Democrats have some open primaries, some closed primaries, and a few caucuses. I'd personally like more closed primaries because I don't think non-Democrats have a "right" to choose our nominee, and also to get rid of caucuses, which are disenfranchising, entirely. I'd love to see more ability to vote by mail, too.

We have superdelegates to prevent another disaster like we saw in 1972. The system has worked to prevent that happening again, and that's a good thing.

It seems funny as hell to me that the campaign that has, as a SENIOR advisor (that would be the rich-and-getting-richer TAD DEVINE), the guy who DEVISED the superdelegate system, is the very campaign whining and crying about it now. Seems a bit like excuse - making when that little but oh-so-key fact is inserted into the conversation.

Pfffft.

And as for the candidate himself, someone who has been caucusing with the Democrats for three decades in some fashion or another, but who can't be bothered to learn THEIR rules and communicate them to his faithful supporters, isn't recommending himself very well at all. That's quite simply FAILURE TO LEAD. One has to ask what he did with those millions he collected from supporters--at least a little of that cash should have been spent on VOTER EDUCATION. It's not the DNC's job--or the job of the state parties-- to do the candidate's work for him. He's the one running for the job under our banner--if he wants those votes, he needs to tell people how to register and join OUR party so that they CAN support him. Unless he really isn't sincere about his membership...? In which case, he's just using us, and I don't think much of that.