Handing VP Kamala Harris the Democratic presidential nomination without having her compete in primaries is a throwback to less democratic ways of picking nominees, a political scientist says.
The two party system is somewhat undemocratic, but she’s more popular than the incumbent president everybody just assumed we had to stick with. Switching it up like that was more in the interests of the voters, wasn’t it? I don’t understand how that’s grounds for a claim that it was done out of distrust for the voters. Kind of the opposite, isn’t it? It wasn’t just representatives that thought Biden was hitting his limit.
I was going to begrudgingly vote for Biden. I will now optimistically vote for Harris. I will still get to engage in democracy in November and I did vote “Uncommitted” in the primaries.
While I would love actually competent primaries (and maybe ones that don’t just end before getting to my state) and would love an actually Democratic voting system I’m not sure this election was any less Democratic than previous ones.
That could just be me clouding my judgement because I think they made the right choice here, but the alternative was chaos and an inevitable loss.
The two party system is somewhat undemocratic, but she’s more popular than the incumbent president everybody just assumed we had to stick with. Switching it up like that was more in the interests of the voters, wasn’t it? I don’t understand how that’s grounds for a claim that it was done out of distrust for the voters. Kind of the opposite, isn’t it? It wasn’t just representatives that thought Biden was hitting his limit.
I was going to begrudgingly vote for Biden. I will now optimistically vote for Harris. I will still get to engage in democracy in November and I did vote “Uncommitted” in the primaries.
While I would love actually competent primaries (and maybe ones that don’t just end before getting to my state) and would love an actually Democratic voting system I’m not sure this election was any less Democratic than previous ones.
That could just be me clouding my judgement because I think they made the right choice here, but the alternative was chaos and an inevitable loss.