Watching politics as you try to stay informed means you’ll run into a lot of bad information.
It’s frustrating but you’ve got to have a strong BS filter and an ability to think for yourself.
Media from either side isn’t the help they’re supposed to be because they have party agendas too. On the right, we often hear them saying we can change things by getting involved in primaries. Picking our own new candidates and shaping the future of the parties and subsequent direction of leadership.
Uhh ..no we can’t. The parties know about this process too, so they’ve taken steps to ensure our choices don’t get in their way.
The primary process is brief and subtle for most voters. For party operatives, it’s a full time job that stays on a front burner. They have no intention of letting us decide who we get on November ballots.
If you think you know how it works, ask yourself these 10 questions…you’ll find out you don’t know what your party is doing…because they don’t want you to.
1. Do you know who runs your party administration nationally and in your state? What are their personal intentions?
2. Do you know the party official who receives donor dollars for that party nationally and in your state?
3. Do you know who the biggest donors to your party are? Both state and national?
4. Do you know who decides how your party’s dollars are distributed to candidates?
5. Do you know which party officials keep your national & state lists of reliable donors?
6. Do you know which candidates your party shares these valuable lists with before primaries?
7. Both parties maintain extensive updated lists of friendly contacts in media and activism for use and access by preferred candidates. Who keeps these lists in your state?
8. Who is on these lists?
9. Which candidates in your primaries are now getting access to, and assistance from, these valuable lists of contacts?
10. The contacts lists are used to help party preferred candidates meet powerbrokers and donors for your races. Who are these candidates meeting privately off this list in your state?
We are told it is “the People” who select our candidates and leaders. We are told we can change officials through the primary process. Of course we can, but the party choice overpowers the favorite of you and I.
Outsiders have almost no chance. Trump as a well known wealthy celebrity with press exposure was a one time exception.
However, once the very rare outsider wins they are unsupported by the party while in office.
The party people do this as a full time job. They work at it daily while the public just watches the contrived theatrics expertly fed through media.
Voters cannot answer the questions above because this is all information the parties keep quiet.
Through this ugly process of hidden favors, big cash flow and candidate grooming the parties have become entrenched and removed voters from their rightful position of being able to select the leaders of their own choosing.
We will not fix this without a new party. After 25 years every party should be replaced or it will just keep happening.
