Our voting rights are protected for the general election. There are no voting rights for primaries. The GOP is a private entity, owned by the GOPe. The law permits the party to pick their candidate any way they want.
That said, if they hope to sell the public on their candidate, they pretty much have to treat us as investors, rather than mere consumers of their candidate product. And that is where the problem is. Americans perceive that we are being given a GOPe product and told to shut up and buy it. Legally, they are within their right to do it that way. But they risk going out of business with that style of marketing campaign.
The GOP as a private company doesn’t hold water, they do get huge amounts of taxpayer money.
Good points there,
Somehow, members of both parties are forgetting that our system is not a democracy. We choose delegates, whom we theoretically know, and whose judgment we theoretically trust, and they in turn choose other delegates/candidates/laws acting in our stead.
A great deal of the whining on both sides of the aisle (and camps within each side, seems to be due to a lack of understanding of this principle. I would dare wonder if the principle itself has been the object of assault, and to what end.
That said, the parties would do well to reflect on the fact that if their decisions don’t reflect the perceived will of their constituents they had best have a very good and articulable reason for differing, or all sorts of mayhem may break loose.
So far, I like your post best.
There are no voting rights for primaries.
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Not yet, but I bet there are some lawyers working on it after this year.