Lets get rid of primary elections when electing our president

[GODZILLA]

I really don't understand why we allow this to happen. Lets just have one election every four years for our president. Whether it be 10 candidates or 2.

[RoadRunner79]

I really don't understand why we allow this to happen. Lets just have one election every four years for our president. Whether it be 10 candidates or 2.

I agree, I think that the primaries are a reason why we are getting more extreme candidates from both sides. There isn’t much participation apart from the more hard nosed Dems or Republicans. However my feeling is that in practice, they would have a less official primary and limit their prospects anyways. Really need to remove the party system, but that’s not easy either. Our political system has gathered a number of flaws over the years, and I don’t think they will be easy to remove them, without completely starting over.

[brewer]

Do we still let each party pick their candidate?

I shudder at the thought of 10 political parties.

[Brian37]

I really don't understand why we allow this to happen. Lets just have one election every four years for our president. Whether it be 10 candidates or 2.

Um no. However, I would be willing to have laws passed to make elections publicly funded, and limit the campaign season. I am sick of the damned thing being 5 million years long. But no, there has to be some choices before you get to the general.

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Do we still let each party pick their candidate?

I shudder at the thought of 10 political parties.

That is a good point too. India may be an open society,  but it also has thousands of political parties and far more of a pay gap and more poverty. Too many cooks as they say.

The real problem has been gerrymandering over the past 30 years.

[Amarok]

Do we still let each party pick their candidate?

I shudder at the thought of 10 political parties.

It works up here .

[Brian37]

Do we still let each party pick their candidate?

I shudder at the thought of 10 political parties.

It works up here .

Where is that? Oh yea, one of our allies that President Shithole attacked?

[Amarok]

It works up here .

Where is that? Oh yea, one of our allies that President Shithole attacked?

Just saying it works here in Canada we have

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Every major part in Canada 
Liberal
PC 
NPD 
Greens 

Every named minor party 
Libertarians
Wild Rose 
The marijuana party 
The non party 
The Christian Socialists

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[brewer]

Wiki tells me that two parties dominate Canada's politics. Sounds pretty much like the US.

[Joods]

How about we start by eviscerating the electoral college system.

[Minimalist]

I really don't understand why we allow this to happen. Lets just have one election every four years for our president. Whether it be 10 candidates or 2.

People used to complain about smoke-filled rooms at conventions deciding on the nominees.... that's why we now have primaries and the even more absurd "caucuses."  But the fact is that conventions used to produce centrist candidates as opposed to the fascist fuckwits of the right or the bland and boring candidates of the... I don't even want to say "left" because the dems now hold the center and the left is invisible except in the nightmares of the fascisti.