The Democratic National Committee’s virtual roll call vote has closed, and the Democratic Party announced that Vice President Kamala Harris received the votes of 99% of the participating delegates.
In a statement late Monday, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison and Minyon Moore, the Democratic National Convention committee chair, said that the roll call results would next be certified by the convention’s secretary, Jason Rae, formalizing Harris’ status as the Democratic nominee who will take on Republican nominee Donald Trump in November.
It isn’t.
We don’t live in a democracy. We live in a representative democracy. You have no direct say in your national leadership, even in the general election.
I’m not defending the DNC here. I’m not a huge fan of Harris but she’s better than Biden. I think they made the right choice but they could have easily made a fucking awful one, and there would be nothing anyone could do about it.
That a private, non representative organization just gets to hand pick our candidate is weird, and you’re right to be pissed about it. The way to change that is to start an organization to petition the government to move away from primaries and caucuses and towards a better method (someone will insist it’s ranked choice but I’m not convinced that’s the best method.)
We have two parties, until that changes this is the fucked up, idiotic system we’re stuck with. We’re stuck with Harris or Trump and if you’re on the fence between those two, I might recommend voting for the one who hasn’t raped a bunch of kids on a private island, bankrupted three casinos, and tried to overthrow the fucking government. But you do you.
bankrupted three casinos, two casino holding companies, and a Manhattan Hotel [1] but he’s an excellent businessman who will run America like his business [2]
[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/donald-trump-business-bankruptcies-4152019
[2] https://www.vox.com/2017/5/18/15653808/donald-trump-james-comey-michael-flynn-business
someone will insist it’s ranked choice but I’m not convinced that’s the best method.
Why not?
It heavily favors moderates. No one, or at least very rarely will anyone get their first choice. But the least offensive candidate will be a lot of people’s second or third choice. There’s no functional reason it would lead to more than two parties, and doesn’t do anything to break up the big two we already have. You just have more candidates from each party running.
So you end up with a race towards milquetoast, be the least offensive. Be everybody’s second choice.
