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No you (and everyone else) should be voting in primaries more. Everyone ignores voting except for once every four years. Then we have the problem that no one wants to run or can run. I have been asked repeatedly but dont have the resources to walk away from employment into public service. How many others are like this. This is a problem of our own making.
Like I haven’t been voting in primaries and every local election since the year 2000…
Maybe I’m sick of waiting for everyone else to do their goddamn part.
They are doing their part. Just voting for the other option. Every primary is won by the centrists, you might think it's because of a conspiracy but it might be just the option that most people prefer. Trump even won the popular vote the second time around, the American public just doesn't agree with you. I wish they did, but they don't.
Warm regards from a European socialist.
Yes I’m aware that humans are terrible
They vote for centrists because they believe policy that helps them and the people they know is actually less electable than typical centrist, means-tested bullshit that helps nobody. Every election the talking heads on CNN tell them "Don't vote for the candidate with the best policy, vote for the candidate an imaginary conservative suburbanite would vote for."
The median voter who is 50% democrat, 50% republican, who will vote for a 98% republican against a 100% republican isn't a real thing, but the dems pretend it is because it allows them to justify wildly unpopular policy to their own base.
Yet somehow they get elected...
Because the DNC and state parties ratfuck and progressive in the primaries.
That, or because primary voters (outside of new York and la) prefer the centrists.
You said the problem yourself: Only the rich can run for office. The problem isn't "our own making". The problem is the system.
A solution? FUCK THAT I WANNA BE MAD!