On: The Case for Abolishing Elections

[rplst8]

If the candidates that are put up in the general aren't what people want, why did they win the primary?

[willis936 → rplst8]

Because primaries are not democratic. Political parties are not democratic entities.

[pasc1878 → willis936]

That depends they are.

However the issue is that the party members are a small proportion of the general public.

Thus a small group is enough to win the vote in the party, This tends in a two party system to make the winner more extreme and less likely to be liked by the general public.

See Liz Truss as a good example here (as well as Trump)

[willis936 → pasc1878]

No, I really mean US primary elections are not democratic elections. They have no requirement to be and they are not.

https://ballotpedia.org/Superdelegates_and_the_2020_Democrat...