do you pay attention to politics?

question: how many repubs/indies do you think vote in open dem primaries?

answer: just enough to possibly ratfuck the progressive in the race and hand the election over to the most conservative democrat in the race.

https://twitter.com/DataProgress/status/1127586185931575297

lipinski is more conservative than joe manchin. yet he won a true blue district that clinton won by 15 pts in true blue illinois over a heavily-funded progressive challenger because repubs and right leaning indies voted for the democrat that was most like them.

there were 2 other high profile races with that same outcome.

the bad political instincts of the current ‘progressive’ movement in this country want to roll that same plan out nationwide lol. ‘hey lets stack the deck against ourselves because it sounds like we are sticking it to the establishment!’.

you think having open primaries is gonna flood the system with a wave of progressive college students and activists who propel a bernie-backed candidate to victory. in reality...it just allows old white republican retirees (the people who actually turn out to vote in primaries) to pick the democrat most likely to cut their taxes and maintain their socially regressive worldview.

if ’progressives’ wanna spend the rest of their life shooting themselves in the foot and making concession speeches to blue dog democrats even in liberal districts then have at it.