Wulfric Democratic Primary Reform Plan

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Yeah, screw democracy!

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Yeah, screw democracy!

Considering about 45% of the country is about to vote for a literal fascist and racist who opposes the first amendment, I think it's a pretty valid statement.

Trump won the primaries because he had a plurality of the vote in the primaries. He wouldn't have won without our undemocratic FPTP system. Yes, the party got behind him later, but that includes people like Paul Ryan, Rob Portman, Marco Rubio, John McCain, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, and others who would undoubtedly be "superdelegates" in your ideal world. Anyway, even if Trump was supported by a majority of voters, the idea that you can simply get rid of political views you don't like by preventing them from voting is cute. Maybe the PRC can get away with it, but they're an authoritarian dystopia that isn't what we want to emulate here, as much as many American political hacks would like to.

Anyway, I'll go through step-by-step everything wrong with your plan in a second.

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1. I would go further by getting rid of caucuses altogether (normal, not a Sanders hack), but this would be a step in the right direction I suppose.
2. I'm not sure what "no-excuse" means, but I strongly support absentee balloting and early voting.
3. I would eliminate superdelegates entirely. I'm not sure I like this compromise; I think politicians should be able to endorse whenever they want.
4. Sounds good.
5. I think party registration is kind of pointless in the US with our current system, and should be abolished, but this doesn't seem too bad in states that already have closed or semi-closed primaries. I'm not sure I like the affidavit thing just because "general principles" is hard to define, and it's unenforceable anyway.
6. TERRIBLE idea. I would just get rid of the delegate system, but blaming Democratic primary voters in Mississippi for the fact that most people in their state are Republican is absurd.
7. Whatever. I'd just have all the primaries on the same day.
8. Sure, I guess.

So overall, not as bad as I remembered. Aside from 6 (which is one of the worst ideas I've heard) and to some extent 5, this would be an improvement over the current system, although I'd still go a lot further ideally.