Something is rotten in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
80% of life is just showing up.
And that's why loons win primaries and put crackpot candidates in place who do not represent the mainstream of the relevant party's membership, the party's office holders, or the party "establishment."
The primary system does not represent democracy.
It does not empower the generality of party members or (in case of open primaries) of local voters.
It empowers creeps and fanatics.
Defending it as more democratic than the previous system of nomination mostly by party officials and office holders is a lie.
It is equally undemocratic and has more pernicious results, the growing extremism of the Republican Party being the most sinister example.
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