2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAlJazeera: American democracy is rigged
The Republican and Democratic parties are functioning like two identical but competing Orwellian Ministries of Truth.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/04/american-democracy-rigged-160424071608730.html
This entirely undemocratic, arcane, draconian, and ipso facto rigged aspect of the US electoral system came to a crucial dead-end during the New York primaries of the Democratic and Republican parties on April 19, when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won their respective primaries.
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Whatever the cause of this "purge" (fraud or mishap), this is not the main calamity of the electoral process in the US.
The issue is the fact that less than 20 percent of eligible voters in a statewide election get to choose who the next presidential candidates in the US national elections would be.
This low number is not any indication of an apathetic low voter turnout, but, in fact, is the evidence of massive voter suppression that, in the racist parlance of the white supremacists, is kept exclusive for what they call "Third World Banana Republics".
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)Here's more -
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As a result of this blatantly undemocratic practice, if you are an independent-minded person, follow the news and watch the debates before you decide which candidate you prefer and want to vote for in the Democratic primaries in New York, you might as well be a woman trying to drive in Saudi Arabia: You could not.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)Because the Middle East is a mess.
egalitegirl
(362 posts)Can you name one middle east country where America is not a factor?
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)not stronger. To have the support and cooperation of the people makes for a secure and strong state. They seem to have forgotten this fact.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)War hawk Clinton does not. Old people, do you want your grandkids going to war for Hillary's seventies cold-war policies? C'mon. More money on military and defense. A broke and embittered nation. That's what we are becoming.
uponit7771
(90,355 posts)People can participate in primaries, the fact that participation is lower than it should is bothersome but not "rigged"
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)The American M$M won't touch it .... these vote scandals.
Only a foreign source does. One more sign of how badly the American public is being treated like mushrooms.