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If the party doesn't pick the candidate who won the vast majority of the popular primary vote/the most electorate votes, primary voting is indeed a pointless game.
The problem is that no one has won the majority of popular primary votes. While someone may still do that, it is becoming increasingly doubtful. In which case, the party has rules in place that allow politicking at the convention to choose the nominee.
Then why the pointless primary voting? It's a waste of time...b/c they are going to pick who they want anyway, it's such a dog and pony show.
I don't care what the party wants to do, it is "WE the People". that is who it's about, not the party....and recently our party has become sniveling liberals....
It's not pointless. It's a marathon, where the candidates get to explain their positions, and get to hear from the people. It's a long conversation between voters and candidates. And it's a job interview. Where the candidate's mettle is tested, as well as the resume reviewed.
Yes, they are "extending a giant middle finger to the people" ---but they don't care. They would much rather throw the election to Hillary than nominate Trump because if Hillary beat Trump, it would mean that the whole rotten corrupt system will still be intact. Since both parties are in the pockets of their mega-rich donors (Even Cruz is in their pockets, despite his desperate attempts to paint himself as non-establishment) with a Hillary win, both sides will continue to feed at the trough. That's why a Trump nomination scares the you-know-what out of the GOP.
If you really think about it.....there's not much they could do to scare him. He's 70 years old and most likely attained everything he's ever envisioned.
At some point you become like Obi-Wan Kenobi -- You become more powerful than ever once you've been struck down
Watch the above video and you'll have a very good idea...
The only nuance for me is a closure of trading wouldn't really bother me. I trade on margin 5 days a week but not one ounce of my existence depends on it..
It's the literal truth. One way or another, the Republican voters choose their nominee. Sometimes its by direct votes in primaries, other times it's by representative votes in the convention.
You do have a say in both. But you have to be more involved by a bit in choosing the second than the first.
The people who are the delegates are the very ones who are doing the things you mention and have been doing that for years. The gaggle of fools that jumped off the turnip truck and on to the hate wagon of Donald Trump have earned no right to demand that the delegates do their bidding and watch their party, and sometimes their life's work, destroyed by nominating an ass like Trump.
"Hate wagon"? Seriously? You need to get a grip. You make no sense at all.
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