Re:Is the social media bubble about to burst?
by harshreality on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:12PM
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There have been all sorts of undemocratic processes in history, but at present I think the vast majority of voters would agree that primaries are supposed to reflect an intra-party democracy, and the DNC leak proved that there were efforts to bias that process. Still, many of the same Democrats who rail against the electoral college for being undemocratic, or Russian propaganda for biasing (however slightly) the general election, are silent about biased/undemocratic selection of their primary candidate.
Even having primaries be anything other than overtly symbolic is a relatively recent feature of the system, for both parties.
The norm has long been that you vote with your membership: you join the party whose leaders you trust most to serve your interests, and then (notionally) those leaders make decisions that they expect will retain and attract members.