After the election, we need to abolish caucuses and make open primaries closed to stop the looney left from having another primary uprising.
The problem is a lot of Democrats are registered as Independents. Most independents are not really "true" independents. Most of them just shun labels for various reasons but still end up voting for the same candidates a Democrat would
(or Republican if they are a Republican-leaning independent). These primary uprisings are going to continue to happen as long as we have closed primaries and significant numbers of Independents. With the current situation, we should partially open the primaries up to Democrats and Independents, but no other parties. I'd prefer closed primaries myself but the fact is, we would be excluding quite a lot of loyal Democratic voters and that will continue to drive suspicion and anger every time we have contested primaries.
As for caucuses, I wholeheartedly agree. The entire system at this point is undemocratic and unreasonably time-consuming. I'm hoping many of the caucus states switch over for 2020-beyond.
This is one of the most ridiculous Pro-Clinton arguments I have ever heard. There is no such thing as "Party Unity" when there IS a REAL DIVIDE in the party when it comes to policy.
I don't think there is. We agree on a lot of the fundamental issues but right now, Clinton's plans are just, in some ways, more moderate versions of Bernie's, who went full liberal on everything. Our party is in relatively good shape compared to the GOP.
