Ah yes! The party is doing great!
Can’t complaint.
No, really, if you complain you go to jail.
kinda sad that the party that wears the american flag like a fucking life vest literally hates democracy.
They’re confederates that didn’t get culled
Remember, The Alamo Defenders were defending their “rights” to own slaves. Mexico was a free country at the time.
I just wanna say, if they don’t want to work toward the unkept promise of American, they can be the ones to give up the symbol; I’m not giving it up.
Elections are designed to be democratic. Political parties are largely unregulated and can generally make their own rules about who they choose to run as a candidate. Remember this next time the Republicans get a big group of powerful party members together to say how much they don’t want a certain orange-tinted fascist to be their candidate, their party could have run someone else. Winning was more important. Similarly, the democrats are well within their rights and the law to have previously committed “superdelegates” or just to skip the primary process entirely and run the vice president.
I wouldn’t call limiting primary voters to party members to be anti-democratic so long as anyone can register for any party at any point before the election.
bootlicker
I don’t think you should use words if you don’t understand what they mean.
It is perfectly fine for parties to decide who represents their party through a vote of party members. Up until the mid 1960s the party leaders chose the candidates outright and oddly we had a more representative legislature as a result.
Your not wrong, the issue is not about how the republicans internally choose their candidate, its about not giving them any legal ground to limit other parties options to do things how they choose.
If they win this case and the democrats have an open primary anyway, it gives the republicans the chance to sue them mid-prinary, and make them waste money and time. This is Calvin Ball levels of rules manupulation and pettieness.
Political parties have no right to fucking exist at all, let alone restrict voting to their membership!
That goes double when they use public funds and government apparatus to administer said vote.
Under the 1st amendment right to assemble and free speech, political parties can legally exist.
So you think that folks registered as independent get no say in the nominees? Everyone should have a say in who represents them regardless of any party affiliation. So in this situation you are either the boot on their neck or a bootlicker.
In a closed primary system, Independents have two options:
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Change their party registration so they can vote in the primary that most appeals to them.
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Wait for the general and then vote.
The whole point of a closed primary is to keep out non-party members.
I’m well aware of the purpose, disenfranchising voters is one of Americas favorite pastimes.
Nobody is disenfranchised, Independents can have their own primary, and nobody is being prevented from voting in the general.
If Independents really want to have a say in who the Republican or Democratic candidate is, all they have to do is re-register. It’s free and easy.
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Everyone should get a say in who represents them and that is what the general election is for. Why should non-members decide who represents the party they haven’t joined? That’s just entitlement.
Again you shouldn’t use words you do not understand or know the meaning of.
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So they want the Texas right to get crazier, and the left to get more progressive?
Sounds like real banger of a plan.
I grew up in a state with open primaries and no state party registration and recently moved to a state that has “semi-closed” primaries.
I think it’s fucking weird that you have to register a party affiliation with the state. Luckily “semi-closed” here means if you don’t register then you can vote in either primary. I can’t imagine why you would register a party affiliation when it only reduces your options.
Presented by: a woman and a person of color.
Back of the bus, you two! AHhahahAhahAhahahaha
/s, obvs
Hey Latinos For Trump, how’s everything goin?
they’d call that a breeder and laborer, but same energy.
The suit also says the state GOP will be able to create its own registration and verification process for a closed primary if the court rules in its favor.
this would imply they have ideas that go far beyond simply indicating a party preference or affiliation when registering to vote
They want Russian style of voting: Only people approved by people currently in power are allowed to be voted for.
Why does the Texas Republican Party need to sue the state to get this done? Doesn’t it run the state?
There may be a law on the books that they can’t seem to get repealed through legislation. So they sue saying it is unconstitutional. And the defendant being the state of Texas represented by Ken Paxton. Ol Ken tells the judge they won’t defend the case. Republican judge rules in favor of the Republican party.
This is just my armchair assessment.
I’m sure they’ll have some sort of sham trial to maintain plausible deniability for the more uppity newsmax viewers.
How stupid this voting system is, in US…
Forcing people to choose sides splits the whole population… You should add mechanics that creates nominations that fit the best for all, not just some…
I’m surprised that state Democrats didn’t file a countersuit to end primaries entirely.
“If we are forced to hold a primary, a candidate we didn’t approve in advance might win it…”
