• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Politics isn’t fair.

    That’s not an excuse for running corrupted primaries. Unless you like the results, which you do. Up to and including losing to trump.

    It’s clear that you’re happy with a party that doesn’t respect the votes of its members enough to run honest primaries. You’re just gloating about corruption, which is what I’ve come to expect from centrists.

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      10 hours ago

      If everyone obeys the law, then a primary is not “corrupt”. It is a test of how many votes you can get when your opponent is using every possible legal mechanism to obtain an “unfair” advantage.

      And that’s exactly the same thing that will happen in the general. So if a candidate doesn’t know how to win an “unfair” primary then they are destined to lose in the general. They are not a good candidate, and they should be eliminated as soon as possible.

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        10 hours ago

        If everyone obeys the law, then a primary is not “corrupt”.

        Enjoy your smoke filled room then.

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          10 hours ago

          The good news is that laws have changed. Candidates today can win primaries simply by getting the most votes, without need of smoke filled rooms.

          The bad news is that leftists are still incapable of winning primaries.