When we got rid of the convention to pick our candidate for the primary system we

[CK_John]

no longer have any say or selection on who will run in 2020.

It is up to anyone who has the money and the ability to gather a following.

It also has been busted wide open to expect the candidate to have any knowledge of the constitution or to be of good character.

So why are spending all this time pretending we have anything at all to say about who runs or not.

[greeny2323]

1. What utter fucking dipshit nonsense n/t

[CK_John]

2. How so, who decides who will run in any primary or party????

[emulatorloo]

6. The candidates decide. There will be lots of candidates in 2020 just as there were in 2008

There were five candidates in the beginning of 2016 as well.

[FarCenter]

3. It depends on whether you prefer popular democracy over representative democracy.

Who elects or appoints the representatives to the presidential convention? What role do various special interests and big money groups/individuals play in that?

[CK_John]

4. You can argue about the way it use to be but the party has no choice

who will run in the primaries.

[emulatorloo]

7. Who exactly forced Lincoln Chaffee to run in 2016? Or Bill Richardson in '08?

You haven't thought any of this through.

[CK_John]

8. I would think that the Millennial Billionaire Generation will decide

to get in 2020 but not 2018 because they want the top and not a second string Senate or House seat.

But they will make the decision and not any party.

[emulatorloo]

5. Brazile's bullshit has been debunked. Putting this here for context

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

"Turns out the memo Donna spoke about applied only to the general election. If so then this memo is standard operating procedure for 15 years"

[Codeine]

9. You never tire of being wrong. nt

[CK_John]

10. What is wrong with the op.