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To: koan who wrote (329610)8/4/2020 5:37:21 PM
From: Wharf Rat2 Recommendations

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abuelita
Ron

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"If right wingers want to vote in the Democratic party then let them join it."

Rat's been telling that to Bernie for 4 years.



To: koan who wrote (329610)8/4/2020 7:15:51 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361032
 
LOL you need to adopt the parliamentary system :)



To: koan who wrote (329610)8/4/2020 9:33:33 PM
From: TigerPaw1 Recommendation

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Ron

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f we have open primaries, then right wingers can move over to vote for someone to defeat a progressives...

you still don't get it. You don't want to have a progressive primary and a right wing primary. You just want ONE PRIMARY for everyone. Then nobody or everybody moves over because they are all voting in the same election. Anything the parties do would have no legal standing as to who runs in the next round of runoffs or the general election. The parties become somewhere between a social group and an advocate group, but they can't get legal enforcement of who gets to vote.



To: koan who wrote (329610)8/4/2020 9:37:06 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361032
 
Show me where in our history your idea has worked.

It used to work in Texas. Some 50 years ago there was no Republican party so the Democrat primary was the only primary that counted. The result was that Texas, 50 years ago, often had progressive leaders, but mostly it had middle-of-the-road leaders. Ann Richards is still a goddess in some parts hereabout.