As a non-American I have to admit that I don't understand how primaries work in that country. Why are the liberals who choose the candidate and not the leftists?
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Because most people don't know the difference. it's mostly just name recognition so you have to be known and at least somewhat popular.
In the 80's liberals got control of our progressive party, the DNC. Back then it was possible to pull voters from the right by appealing to wealth and so Clintons won by doing it.
But every election our candidates are supposed to be elected by popular vote within each party. Recently they just kind of stopped though because it turns out that was apparently just a tradition and not like an enforceable law or anything. And the Clintons wanted to have the White House again.
As an American, I can assure they don't work. It's a fucking party. Guess why that wasn't a misnomer and what they mean by "Jerry Rigged" and "Glass" house.
Or did you think Propane was just a coincidence in naming?
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Telling on themselves, aren’t they?
We were right about Kamala.
brattykat is being sardonic there
On one layer.
Maybe the OP didn’t intend it, but you can also read the fictional liberal as being unable to imagine a democratic candidate that isn’t genocidal.
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