Primaries create a situation where politicians do not have to answer to the party rank and file. Instead, the rank and file’s vote is diluted by people who have only a passing interest in what the party stands for. Because much of the public is only barely paying attention, the news media loves this situation. Primaries, particularly open primaries allow the news media to “educate” the public on the candidates. Hence, the campaign of any conservative candidate meets with serious resistance even before it gets started. Doesn’t the news media treat all conservatives as radicals?

Yet consider what the Democratic Party wants to do? Put what that party has done in a historical context. Consider the growth of the welfare state. Look at how we got the “right to abortion.” Then consider the prospect of same-sex marriage. Ask yourself why the very idea of nationalizing the health care system is not consider extreme. Why doesn’t the news media treat Democrat’s goofy ideas to “fix” global warming kooky? Why are Democrats almost never considered extreme? The obvious answer is that the news media has taken sides. Our news media is a business run largely by massive corporations. These corporations have their own agenda, and their interests do not necessarily coincide with the People’s interest.

To solve this problem, this travesty of an election, we need to scrap the primary system. Government has no business telling the People how the People should select candidates for office. The current system violates the First Amendment right of free assembly.