Re:Airbnb S-1
by twic on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:23AM
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This is somehow connected to the fact that US political parties are mostly not mass membership organisations.
Everywhere else in the world, if you strongly support a party, you join it, and pay a membership fee, and the party adds you to a register. Then, you can take part in party activities, like internal elections.
In the US, you register as a supporter of a particular party with the state. Then, everyone registered can take part in (some) party activities, like primaries.
It's a weird system, and i don't know how it started, but because Americans don't realise it's weird, there isn't much written about it!
Everywhere else in the world, if you strongly support a party, you join it, and pay a membership fee, and the party adds you to a register. Then, you can take part in party activities, like internal elections.
In the US, you register as a supporter of a particular party with the state. Then, everyone registered can take part in (some) party activities, like primaries.
It's a weird system, and i don't know how it started, but because Americans don't realise it's weird, there isn't much written about it!