SC's Alvin Green is the Future of Politics in CA
An unemployed, semi-literate veteran won the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina Tuesday night in a harbinger of all future primary elections in the State of California.
Thanks to easily propagandized voters in my state, we just passed a ballot initiative creating open primaries. That means each party's nominees for office are chosen not by party loyalists but by anyone who wants to cast a vote for whatever reason. In the case of Alvin Green of South Carolina, his party chair had never met him, had no encounter at all with him during the primary campaign. He spent no money, ran no ads, and apparently pretty much stayed home during the primary. He won because in SC -- as now in CA -- tens of thousands of Republicans whose incumbent candidate Jim DeMint faced no opposition got together and decided to vote for the worst possible Democratic opponent to ensure their guy's November victory. This effectively kills two-party politics in SC as it surely will here.
DeMint is one of the worst demagogues in the Senate. The Democratic Party in SC probably couldn't defeat the guy anyway. But the malicious vandalism of the open primary guarantees the people of SC won't even have a viable option in November.
What crap.
