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They literally don't...
Were talking about the DNC...
They run the presidential primary, and because prior corrupt DNCs accumulated a giant war chest they got the keys and gave it back to state parties...
(Edit: threatening to withhold that money is how prior corrupt DNCs controlled party members. You seem to think we should be corrupt but in the opposite direction. That is a stupid and uninformed plan. And literally can't happen because the party already gave that money to the state parties with no strings. They can't be corrupt and wield it as a club, because they got rid of the fucking club)
What?!
Literally what the fuck are you talking about?
Do you think "the DNC" is a shadow government made up of sitting congress members?
That's not what it is, but it's the only way your rambling make sense.
You just legitimately don't know anything about how this works, and you refuse to ask questions
It's exhausting trying to speak from knowledge to people who think their fucking guess at how things work is somehow equivalent to your lifetime of direct experience. I regularly get moronsplained at by these people and never, literally never, do they have the slightest idea of what they're talking about.
The non-American accounts make sense at least, most Americans can't even understand our system...
But politically "active" Americans who spend lots of time commenting about it, but have never tried to learn about it anywhere besides social media are just the fucking worst.
Like I get it, for 30 years "DNC bad" was good enough.
But shit finally fucking changed, and there's a never ending stream of very ignorant and very loud accounts, with a noticable uptick as soon as the primaries were over and the general is rapidly approaching.
And I stead of paying the slightest bit of attention, they only want to tell people that the DNC is trash and somehow the best way to stop Republicans is not vote for the progressive Dems running against them in the general.
None of it makes logical sense, but they just keep repeating the same shit the oligarch owned media does.
That's a fucking ironic comment considering the bullshit you just replied elsewhere. I only saw this because I'm blocking you because YOU are so far divorced from reality. Fuck that noise and goodbye.
Go DARVO someone else, I guess, because we're not buying your bullshit here, sweetie.