Reply #56: Imo: This is the essential issue; Are we going to continue to be told "You don't know enough to [View All]

[patrice]

pick your own candidates. Leave it up to us professionals (read that 'number crunchers'), because we can figure out who is 'electable' and we can run the machine that produces the votes. So you all just listen to us, show up when we say, and trust us to get someone in whom you will like."

This paternalistic machine ***infantalizes*** ALL of us (Republicans and Democrats alike) and ultimately puts us all in the position in which we find ourselves now. But then, what does anyone expect when people are paid to think what they think and paid to say what they say, it IS the root of all Evil.