Vote for the change you want to see.

The Republican party got remade because trumpists showed up and outvoted the party elites. No reason it can’t happen for the Left except for laziness and apathy.

If all the progressives furious about the state of affairs now had shown up for Sanders in 2016, I doubt we’d be in this hellish timeline. Sadly, he needed the young progressive vote to show up.

  • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
    9•2 months ago

    They’re rigged because, uh, um

    Party Control of Party Primaries: Party Influence in Nominations for the US Senate

    Using a simple and easily understood measure of party support, I show that candidates who are less connected to the party are less likely to win and also less likely to remain a candidate in the primary. I find that parties not only are effective in helping candidates win but also are influential in excluding certain electoral options from being presented to primary voters.

    • nictophilia
      3•2 months ago

      That’s not being rigged, it’s a Democratic Party election. No shit someone from outside the party will have less influence.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 months ago

      Unfortunately I cannot read that paper without paying money to a journal. Would you care to provide a summary of the methodology?

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 months ago

        I am so torn between a trollish ‘no fuck you’ and a genuine ‘samesies’ and it’s left me emotionally vulnerable in a way I’m deeply uncomfortable with. Fuck you.

    • @[email protected]
      0•2 months ago

      Bernie did better in caucus states [controlled directly by the Party] than he did in states with primaries.

      • @Alwaysnownevernotme
        2•2 months ago

        Wonder how he would have done in California if the most populous wealthy state didn’t vote 47th.

        • @[email protected]
          0•2 months ago

          Please stop thinking about Bernie and start thinking about Obama.

          Obama had less time in the Senate and was way behind Hilary in every single poll when he started.

          If Obama could do it, the next one can too.