Reply #40: what exactly is "the party"?

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Is it a group of 1,000 insiders and bigshots, or is it a mass of registered voters and grass-roots activists?

Do we really have a democracy if a group of insiders decide who our candidates are by fiat and then voters are brought in to approve the selection? At least we get to pretend like we have a choice.

Are our elections supposed to be decided by "proven fundraisers"? That is, the corporations and rich people who can afford to donate $1,000 in an election get to decide who all the little people will be told to vote for. Meanwhile the party bombards little people with pleas for funds "support the DNC!" "Support the DCCC!" Or "Give us your money so we can use it to decide who your candidate is gonna be" and we are gonna pick Boswell over Fallon and Liberman over Lamont and Specter over Sestak and so on an so forth.

There's nothing sinsiter about a group of elitists controlling our elections? i guess that depends on if you like the idea of democracy or not.