[TheRealThing]

People who do more for their party deserve more consideration than people who do less. A political party is no different than any other private club or other organization. If you invest time and money in the party, then you are more likely to rise and win elections within the organization. Do you believe that there is something inherently wrong with rewarding investment and hard work?

Nothing I said should be controversial or have any effect on your temper. We have a right to vote in general elections, regardless of how much or how little we have done for private political parties. We have no right to vote in party primary elections unless the party decides to allow us to do so.

Your vote in general election counts as much as mine and our votes count as much as Bill Gates' vote. Party nominations are different. We can start our own political party and make our own rules, but if we want to have a voice in the rules of a party with millions of members, then we cannot expect that everything will be to our liking.

Ask yourself what gives you or anybody else the right to help select a private political party's nominee, any more than you have a right to help select the president of a local private country club. The principle is exactly the same. Private organizations make their own rules - that is what separates them from public organizations.

Honestly, I don't know where the idea that people are entitled to participate in the selection of any political party's nominee. There is no such entitlement, there never has been, and there should never be such an entitlement. We are allowed to participate because some parties allow us to do so. The alternative is to have state-sponsored political parties and have the government make all the rules. That process usually ends in countries having a single political party, in which the candidate they select wins more than 90 percent of the vote.

We live in what some people would call the information age. Back in the early days the average American had no real access to the workings in Washington Dc, nor did he have much to say about presidential nominees. And frankly, owing to the fact that in those days men of honor served with honor, that worked fine.

Now, what with all the liberal terraforming and globalist agenda concerns, folks are not so comfortable with the status quo. And thus they are suddenly active in the proceedings of their government. They want a voice not only in the elections, but in the candidate selection process. In short, as I have been saying, the voter has awakened.

You just said voters are not entitled to participate in the selection of their nominee and that is not right. Primary states and Caucus states almost always consider the vote count of the voting public for bound delegates, and often binding unbound delegates to vote for the leading vote getter. I mean, what pray tell is the whole campaign season all about if not wooing voters?

Then you said the alternative is to completely forego nominee selection by the voter, go to a one party state sponsored system, (which is the trophy the Dems thought was in nearly in their grasp in 2012) and cede control to the state to dictate terms. Which, given the election news to date, that will not fly either.

If the people trusted the two parties to be fair, maybe the status quo could continue and the establishment could hold sway. But that process, which may have originally been engineered to keep the Bernie Sanders style goof out of office, now looks to be a bit shady. And the unfortunate lapse in character and judgment displayed by many of those in power, has resulted in the people's rejection of the establishment candidates. They are just not going to accept more of the same. I believe the willingness of people to accept the liberal doctrine has peaked, and the rejection of same is afoot. I don't know what the eventual answer may turn out to be, but disenfranchising voters, who thanks to the 24/7 news loop and civics channels have suddenly become aware, is certainly not an option. They will not be denied, so the political parties had better get it figured out in a hurry. And they'd better stop feeding bull and blather to the voter, they are obviously having none of it.

We watched John McCain get beat. Then we watched Mitt Romney get beat. We saw the congress neutered, voter ID's shouted down and the government shut down. The status quo is rudderless and without conviction. What we are seeing is the rise of the voter.


"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic." .... Benjamin Franklin

America is fighting to reunite with her soul.