2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: We Should Only Let Democrats Choose Our Nominee [View all]potone
(1,701 posts)The emails proved that. Did you miss the fact that the head of the DNC was forced to resign because of her blatant bias?
I agree that caucuses are a bad idea, but what about the states that have them and like them? We can't force them to adopt a primary system instead.
As for the issue of closed versus open primaries; it seems to me that that is not what we should be discussing now. What we need to discuss first of all is what does the Democratic party stand for and who does it represent and second, can we create a primary schedule that is balanced between different parts of the country?
The number of people who are registered as Democrats has been declining for some time. Does it not occur to people that that is a problem that the party needs to address if it wishes to win? Dissing independents is not the answer. Finding out what they want would be a good step towards bringing them into the party.