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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho should control our platform for 2016? the rank-and-file, or just the nominee?
Corollary question, how much open debate do you think we should have on the platform? Is it, in your view a good thing or a bad thing that we really haven't had much freedom for the convention to debate the platform recently, that the convention, essentially has basically been nothing but a bland, passionless "optics show"?
Is it time to bring some democracy back to the Democratic Party, and to make issues actually matter again?
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el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)Obviously it's a tug of war - we select a candidate who is going to represent out views - but we try and select a good person which means they will probably have a few ideas of their own.
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Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)This platform -- this philosophy -- must result from the Party at the smallest level up. A party is NOT a personalistic one-person election apparatus.