19-year-old Fmr. Candidate for KS Governor may have just won a State House seat

[GlobeSoc]

How is this person a Dem? There's an entire other party that exists for people like him.

He's not a Dem. He's a hard-line authoritarian communist with a fetish for political violence posing as a DemSoc.

yeah, tbh its kind of bizarre that such a candidate is favored to win a state house seat and doesn't reflect well on american politics. hard left, socialists, and even non-authoritarian communists are one thing, but bolsheviks aren't cool

[GlobeSoc]

How is this person a Dem? There's an entire other party that exists for people like him.

He's not a Dem. He's a hard-line authoritarian communist with a fetish for political violence posing as a DemSoc.

yeah, tbh its kind of bizarre that such a candidate is favored to win a state house seat and doesn't reflect well on american politics. hard left, socialists, and even non-authoritarian communists are one thing, but bolsheviks aren't cool

Well, I apologize if you've heard this all before, but for anyone who isn't aware, US parties are very different than European parties. They are really just labels for people to run on, and overlapping, loosely affiliated organizations. Parties typically do not have the ability to prevent someone from running in a primary or being a party. Even if every party official and active party member loathes somebody, they can say they're a member of that party, run in the primary, and make their case to a broader electorate.

the primary system just means that people that would otherwise be in formalized political parties form ideological factions of the parties. A european system implemented on the current united states would be less toxic, but fundamentally the american electorate itself has a very high degree of toxicity. I don't think it would truly make that much of a difference in candidate quality if the system changed as a result.