Do we have to point out again that the nomination process has nothing to do with democracy and is really a focus group for the party. It's the same in all parties.
If a candidate nomination were really democratic do you know what it would look like?
No nomination at all. All the candidates would just be on the ballot!

Of course, that would make it so that only the allegedly "nondemocratic" parties would make it.

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