The GOP hit Florida with sanctions today, because Florida had the brass to do what the remaining 48 states should have done as well: hold an early primary date. Here we go again…
Here’s what I think of this: New Hampshire and every other state in the union should have voted on the same day.
“That’ll never work?” Wrong! We hold a general election on November 7th in all 50 states, in no fewer than five time zones. These candidates ran around to every county in Iowa, and there’s 99 of them. They can make it work.
Instead, we are forced to follow idiotic rules of both parties that disenfranchise voters whose states who have dared to voice their opinion on the matter.
Except this time, the GOP is acting stupidly….last time it was the Democrats who robbed Florida and Michigan of their say in the selection of the respective nominees. The GOP took half our delegates and laughed at the way the Democrats were handling it.
I don’t respect the GOP decision to punish Florida or any other state for violating the “no early primary” rule. Every state should have pushed back after what happened four years ago, and scheduled their primary when THEY wanted it, regardless of the GOP or DNC preferences.
If every state scheduled an early primary, these rules would collapse and a fairer system would emerge. But when one or two states buck the system, the national Dems and Reps try to make examples out of them and end up punishing the people who they need to turn out on Election Day.
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