Why are states even in the business of primaries anyway?
The Democratic party is a private organization, and can choose its candidate using any method it wants. They have already said that if New Hampshire doesn't do what they want they will simply invalidate the results and take away their delegates, which is their right.
The sole purpose of a primary election is for the political parties to choose their candidate for the general election. Not a single dime of public money, and not a single moment of a government officials time should be spent on this endeavor. It's an entirely internal process to the political parties and they should pay for and administer it however they choose.
Being a “private” corporation doesn’t give the right to circumvent constitutional rights, not to mention their own written bylaws. Being a private corporation does not allow you to defraud. Being a private corporation does not allow you to abuse “freedom of association” especially when your functionally control all paths to power.
Your enemies don’t care about the rules. They care about your destruction. They will enslave you with your libertarian platitudes and watch you bury yourself alive with them.
Dude, you don't have a constitutional right to vote on the Democratic (or Republican) party's presidential candidate. You have the right to vote for anyone who meets the requirements to be elected president in the general election. They don't even have to be on the ballot; you can write in anyone you choose.
Members of the Democratic party may have a civil cause of action if the party violated their own internal rules, but only someone who actually donated money to the party could conceivably be awarded any monetary relief. Since you're still free to vote for whoever you want in the presidential election and whoever isn't selected as the Democratic candidate is still free to run, there really aren't any damages for the court to provide relief for.
Even if disregarding the results of a state primary does violate party's own rules, it's unlikely that a court can or would force them to endorse a particular candidate, because compelled speech is barred by the 1st Amendment, which would trump any state election laws.
Bottom line- primary elections are a waste of taxpayer resources, have no basis in the Constitution, and have impermissively drawn government into the internal workings of private political parties. They should be abolished. Barring that, as private entities the political parties are under no obligation to honor the results from an election run on their behalf by a government body.
All you just said, retard, is that the collective consciousness is better than the distribution of rights. Maybe if you bothered to read why our country and government was founded on the rights of the states, then you could understand, in your very limited intellect, why centralization is a massively bad idea.
Wow, someone doesn't understand what political parties are and is really angry about it.
Political parties are not an official part of the US government- you won't find a single mention of them in the Constitution. They certainly have nothing to do with the principles our country was founded on.
What they are is a private organization of like-minded people who band together to increase their power and electability. Basically it's more effective to campaign as "John Smith, Republican" than "John Smith, independant thinking human" because voters are stupid and can't be bothered to research candidates. The parties allow them to pick someone who they probably will generally agree with.
Which leads me back to my original point: There's nothing in the Constitution about primary elections for the president. There's one election for the president and it takes place every 4 years. The only purpose for primary elections is for political parties to choose who will run under their banner. So why is the state involved in administering it and developing rules for it in the first place?
There are laws that favor the two parties though. They just write that you have to get x% on the previous general election to get a privileged primary paid for by the state. That's why you don't get to vote in libertarian primaries
The New Hampshire attorney general’s office on Monday sent a cease-and-desist order to the Democratic National Committee after the national party demanded state Democrats “educate the public” that their upcoming presidential primary is “meaningless.”
In its letter to the DNC, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office declared that that demand was illegal voter suppression and warned the DNC to stop trashing their primary or risk “further enforcement action.”
“Telling any person qualified to register to vote or vote in New Hampshire that the January 23, 2024, New Hampshire democratic Presidential Primary Election is ‘meaningless’... constitutes an attempt to prevent or deter New Hampshire voters from participating [in the primary]... in violation of RSA 659:40, III,” Assistant Attorney General Brendan O’Donnell wrote in the order to the DNC, citing a portion of the state’s voting rights law.
I read the letter from the DNC to the NHDP that is linked in the article. It reminded me of a line from a Frank Zappa song:
I hope NH tells them to pound sand and holds it anyway.
Why are states even in the business of primaries anyway?
The Democratic party is a private organization, and can choose its candidate using any method it wants. They have already said that if New Hampshire doesn't do what they want they will simply invalidate the results and take away their delegates, which is their right.
The sole purpose of a primary election is for the political parties to choose their candidate for the general election. Not a single dime of public money, and not a single moment of a government officials time should be spent on this endeavor. It's an entirely internal process to the political parties and they should pay for and administer it however they choose.
Being a “private” corporation doesn’t give the right to circumvent constitutional rights, not to mention their own written bylaws. Being a private corporation does not allow you to defraud. Being a private corporation does not allow you to abuse “freedom of association” especially when your functionally control all paths to power.
Your enemies don’t care about the rules. They care about your destruction. They will enslave you with your libertarian platitudes and watch you bury yourself alive with them.
Dude, you don't have a constitutional right to vote on the Democratic (or Republican) party's presidential candidate. You have the right to vote for anyone who meets the requirements to be elected president in the general election. They don't even have to be on the ballot; you can write in anyone you choose.
Members of the Democratic party may have a civil cause of action if the party violated their own internal rules, but only someone who actually donated money to the party could conceivably be awarded any monetary relief. Since you're still free to vote for whoever you want in the presidential election and whoever isn't selected as the Democratic candidate is still free to run, there really aren't any damages for the court to provide relief for.
Even if disregarding the results of a state primary does violate party's own rules, it's unlikely that a court can or would force them to endorse a particular candidate, because compelled speech is barred by the 1st Amendment, which would trump any state election laws.
Bottom line- primary elections are a waste of taxpayer resources, have no basis in the Constitution, and have impermissively drawn government into the internal workings of private political parties. They should be abolished. Barring that, as private entities the political parties are under no obligation to honor the results from an election run on their behalf by a government body.
All you just said, retard, is that the collective consciousness is better than the distribution of rights. Maybe if you bothered to read why our country and government was founded on the rights of the states, then you could understand, in your very limited intellect, why centralization is a massively bad idea.
Wow, someone doesn't understand what political parties are and is really angry about it.
Political parties are not an official part of the US government- you won't find a single mention of them in the Constitution. They certainly have nothing to do with the principles our country was founded on.
What they are is a private organization of like-minded people who band together to increase their power and electability. Basically it's more effective to campaign as "John Smith, Republican" than "John Smith, independant thinking human" because voters are stupid and can't be bothered to research candidates. The parties allow them to pick someone who they probably will generally agree with.
Which leads me back to my original point: There's nothing in the Constitution about primary elections for the president. There's one election for the president and it takes place every 4 years. The only purpose for primary elections is for political parties to choose who will run under their banner. So why is the state involved in administering it and developing rules for it in the first place?
People think we are a two party system because there's some law. Turns out, we're in a two party system because it just kind of turned out that way.
There are laws that favor the two parties though. They just write that you have to get x% on the previous general election to get a privileged primary paid for by the state. That's why you don't get to vote in libertarian primaries
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