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Originally Posted by nfotiu
You are talking like it would be a good thing if the only choices were a tea party candidate and a socialist candidate. I'd venture a guess that the majority wants neither of those. Some of the complexities in how the parties choose their candidates are designed to make it difficult for an extreme candidate to be chosen to represent the party with little chance of winning. I'm sure if Sanders continues winning primaries like he did in NH, he will be the nominee.
It still seems like a far more democratic process than Canada has for choosing its party leaders.
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He might still be right, though, that this is the way to overhaul the system. Just not in the way he's envisioning. All through this primary cycle I've been thinking that we're well on our way to the GOP effectively being run by the Tea Party or people aligning with them philosophically on most issues. Meanwhile, if the socialist left (which may end up incorporating a bunch of the regressive left) takes over the Democratic party, we'll have two extreme parties, leaving room for a new centrist party to develop and attract votes from the disenfranchised center. Possibly also a Ron/Rand Paul style libertarian party to boot.
This might actually be the best possible outcome for the USA and would certainly make me much more confident in the self-corrective mechanisms supposedly inherent in the democratic process.