There is some brouhaha about how corporate shills are rife within the platform and rules committees.
Here's the dirty little secret: Nobody outside of the process gives a shit.
Here's why: Unless the party brass uses the rules to deny the nomination to the candidate who has the most delegates, it doesn't matter. Nobody gives a fuck about the "party platform". Whoever wins the nomination will run on whatever positions they choose. The only two functions of a party platform are to a) mollify the rubes who care about a particular issue , and b) give the other side something to lambaste the party about ("The Democrats want to abort into the sixth trimester"/"The Republicans want to issue M-4 carbines to fourth-graders").
The only vote(s) that matters is the one for the presidential candidate. Whoever wins that will get the veep candidate of their choice. The rest is eyewash and bullshit. For whoever wins the nomination will run on their own policy positions and those are what they may try to enact.
A blog by a "sucker" and a "loser" who served her country in the Navy.
If you're one of the Covidiots who believe that COVID-19 is "just the flu",
that the 2020 election was stolen, or
especially if you supported the 1/6/21 insurrection,
leave now.
Slava Ukraini!
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
2 comments:
House Rules #1, #2 and #6 apply to all comments. Rule #3 also applies to political comments.
In short, don't be a jackass. THIS MEANS YOU!
If you never see your comments posted, see Rule #7.
All comments must be on point and address either the points raised in the blog post or points raised by commenters in response.
Any comments that drift off onto other topics are subject to deletion.
(Please don't feed the trolls.)
中國詞不評論，冒抹除的風險。僅英語。
COMMENT MODERATION IS IN EFFECT UFN. This means that if you are an insulting dick, nobody will ever see it.
Kabuki theater - leaves the rubes feeling as if they had participated.
ReplyDeleteIf it feels like I've been around for 15 years, it's because I have been. Yep, the Jurassic One wrote his first blog post about John Kerry and the 2004 election 15 years ago. But my rent's gone up $150 over the last decade and Mrs. JP, Popeye the cat and I need help. So if you can help us out in any way possible, please do so. There are Paypal links on my site.
ReplyDelete