In Florida, the major parties, the only ones who have presidential primaries, have complete control over which candidates appear on the ballot. See this article about the eight Republicans who will be on the Florida Republican presidential primary: Ryan Binkley, Doug Burgum, Chris Christie, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Donald Trump.
The Republicans let anyone who paid the party $25,000, and who promised to appear at a statewide party rally. Also anyone who did not appear at the rally could get on with $100,000.
North Dakota’s governor’s first name contraction is usually rendered as Doug, not Dug. Not that any of them except Trump have a chance.
thank you.
ONE MORE EVIL VICIOUS OLIGARCHY AT WORK.
ABOLISH PRIMARIES AND ESP THE MINORITY RULE 12 AMDT EC.
Sure, abolish the EC if you want WWIII, woke cultural Marxism, borders open to cartels, terrorists, organized crime from all over the world, gangs, defunded police, disarmed citizens, tranny tyranny, endless spending and debt, rapidly multiplying welfare leeches, government enforced woke cultural Marxism, more red tape than anyone can handle, ever more rapid income redistribution, an end to religious liberty, and the rest of the poisonous leftist agenda. AZ is a moron.
As for primaries, once again: how parties nominate should be their business. They should pay for and administer it themselves. Gradual adoption of the Max plan sounds great to me.
Pig Farmer, in 1888 the electoral college was responsible for the defeat of Grover Cleveland, whose platform was to cut federal spending and allow free trade. Benjamin Harrison, the person who got the most electoral votes even though he got fewer popular votes, was against free trade and wanted to expand federal spending.
That was in 1888. In 2000 and 2016, the electoral college saved America, and quite likely the world.
MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER SYSTEMS IN USA –
USA H REPS / SENATE / EC (PREZ/VP)
ALL 5O STATE LEGISLATURES
MANY LOCAL REGIMES
LOCAL AT LARGE SYSTEMS DENY 49.9 PCT MINORITIES ANY REAL REPRESENTATION
SUPER-WORSE EXTREMIST PRIMARIES
RESULT – TYRANT USA PREZS / GUVS / MAYORS / ETC. — ESP UN-DECLARED PREZ WARS, WORSE ANNUAL DEFICITS , WORSE DEBT SUMS, INFLATION, UNDER-INVESTMENT, HIGHER PCT OF NET TAX GETTERS/LOOTERS, ETC ETC ETC
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P-A-T
Exactly what you’d get more of without the electoral college and Senate. Your stated goals and what you think would achieve them are completely at odds.
What is “under-investment”? Is that something meaning you want the government to actually spend more? In that case, you’re consistent in wanting to get rid of the electoral college. If you think it would happen without more additional debt, or more additional wars and welfare, you’re not living in reality. The available evidence is that more “pure democracy” leads to faster growth in all those things.
There’s no need for government to “invest” tax money. Government is horribly inefficient, and anything and everything it extorts the money to build could be built better by competing firms.
I should note I’m for fair trade, not “free” trade, particularly with slave regimes like China. However, it’s true that rural areas tended to vote for Democrats in 1888, and the Democrats back then were for lower taxes and spending than Republicans of that time. That made the electoral college far less vital than it is today, when demon rats fester and breed off ill gotten loot, “legal” and illegal, in the big cities, which they are rapidly reducing to turd world status. Exporting that governing model to the whole country is exactly the opposite of what we need. Having legislators pick electors would be better, and I’d rather see the union dissolved than get rid of the electoral college.
ALL SAVINGS = ALL INVESTMENT IN ALL 4 SECTORS — PERSONS – BIZ [GDP]- GOVTS – FORN
PRIVATE UNDER- INVESTMENT-
TOO MANY ECON TROLL MORONS TO COUNT.
The deadline to apply for parties to apply for a presidential primary is November 30th by Florida Statute s. 103.101(2).
December 19th is the deadline to finalize the list of candidates for the presidential primaries held on March 19, 2024.
This gives time for the listed candidates to withdraw and for parties to replace names.
You can see how this was done in years past here: https://dos.fl.gov/elections/candidates-committees/qualifying/presidential-preference-primary-archive/
Governments don’t save or invest, they extort, waste, and misallocate. See the calculation problem in central planning, or just look at results. AZ is an actual economic troll moron, among other subjects.
Being more charitable to AZ than he deserves, perhaps he meant that private industry underinvests due to onerous taxation. That’s true, but pure democracy makes that worse, not better.
AZ calls for even more acceleration of the ongoing expansion of the franchise and centralization of government, illogically contending that further expansion of the franchise and shifting of power away from States upward would result in fewer wars, less debt, less looting, and less inflation, when all past evidence shows exactly the opposite would happen.
When more restrictions on voting were in place and Republican limitations on democracy and centralization of government power were more strictly in place in the past, leeches were kept from voting, or at least from dominating government through voting and turning it into an instrument of further leeching. Doing away with those safeguards and restrictions has gradually put the leeches in control, resulting in a gradual but accelerating slide away from prosperity and civilization, and thus away from peace and morality as well.
The Case for More Restrictions on Voting and on Donating to Political Campaigns
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZfq0yFde4
Voting should be more restricted. Donating to campaigns should be unrestricted. Restricting money in politics just leads to the money being routed in other ways, legally or illegally. The only real way to get money out of politics is by getting politics out of money. That is, if government isn’t controlling everything, there’s a lot less incentive to spend a lot of resources (money, time, labor, etc) on who controls government.