Every primary should be competitive, I donāt care if itās AOC or Fettermen.
Itās been a loooong time since there was real primary competition for the local congress seat. Shit was bought and sold long ago, enforced by a āpower brokerā (read: mob boss) who rules regional politics with an iron fist. And the general is just a long string of ~70/30 splits. There was no challenger for the senate seat, either.
Progressives have been making a tiny bit of headway at the local level, at the cost of endless lawsuits and harassment for daring to go against the machine. But the vast majority of committee positions etc are patron/nepo placements even though theyāre āelected.ā Shit is thoroughly corrupt.
Itās been a loooong time since there was real primary competition for the local congress seat. Shit was bought and sold long ago, enforced by a āpower brokerā (read: mob boss) who rules regional politics with an iron fist. And the general is just a long string of ~70/30 splits. There was no challenger for the senate seat, either.
Progressives have been making a tiny bit of headway at the local level, at the cost of endless lawsuits and harassment for daring to go against the machine. But the vast majority of committee positions etc are patron/nepo placements even though theyāre āelected.ā Shit is thoroughly corrupt.
Yes, I still voted.