old but gold, still seems to hold true

  • Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org
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    3 months ago

    I like the Russian sourcing in the lower right. that’s totally legit right? Surely that didn’t come from some Kremlin troll farm. We are so far beyond “both sides are the same”…

  • Juergen@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    The fun part is that the primaries seem to be specifically designed to have the parties do that to themselves rather than to each other.

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      3 months ago

      They were. The whole concept of primaries came about because progressives tried reforming the nomination process via laws. When one progressive Republican ran as a third party instead, it became obvious that the better reform standard was to fix the party nomination process.