Aaron Klemz wrote:
And lastly - what really gets me going is the insider party activist banter that demonstrates what the real problem is here. If the sum total of Minneapolis politics is contained in your ability to woo 300-400 activists at the endorsing convention, and/or get 10-12 union and interest group endorsements then we have truly become an oligarchy in function if not in name. Before you get all "democracy" on me - let's be clear. 90+% (and I would love to get the actual number on this) of endorsed DFL candidates win. AND - democracies function badly when become exclusively personality driven. It leads to ridiculous outcomes like "no shirt, no parade contingent, no vote." And while I don't believe that rationale drives most activists, it seems to me like the distillation of our current model of politics in Minneapolis rather than an aberration.
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