A national campaign is backing ballot measures in six states to end partisan primaries. The current system gives the most active members of both major parties an outsize role in picking political leaders.
  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    I guess democracy really is on the ballot here.

    I wonder if they’re motivated by trying to make it okay that the DNC skipped its primary this year?

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPM
      6·
      4 days ago

      Things to get upset about: Trump wants to kill his opponents and accelerate carbon emissions as much as humanly possible, setting us on a pace for worldwide suicide and shutting off all the exit ramps he can manage

      Things we need to solve without delay as soon as the end of the world is postponed: The Democrats are also okay with killing Palestinians and wealth inequality

      Things I don’t give even the smallest fuck about: The Democrats skipped their primary this year