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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (20 children)

When the right wing voters didn't like what their elected leader were doing, they primaried them with more ideologically pure leaders.

Left wing voters just bitch and moan but take no action proving that some of the qualities the right claims of the left, like being lazy and entitled are true.

[–] explodicle 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Have Republicans ever had any primary corruption controversies, like that whole superdelegates thing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The corruption is their goal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure where you're going with a thus since I'm referring to primary if congressional leaders and you're hung up on the presidency, another weird thing we only do on that left.

The right did have a candidate that refused to participate in their party's debates and threatened the party's leaders so there is something there but it's not a fair comparison since the left isn't good at authoritarian demagoguery.

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