Closed Primaries or Open primaries?

[NurseJackie]

4. I know. I don't subscribe to it either.

I know. I don't subscribe to it either. After all, nobody is keeping anyone out. They are keeping themselves out. It doesn't take too much effort to register as a Democrat, and to know the rules in advance.

Get them involved by having them register as Democrats... have some "ownership" and pride and sense of belonging... and less of an thoughtless impulse-buy. If they can't make the minimum effort to register as a Democrat, then there's really no compelling reason for me to believe that they have any business meddling in the party decision-making process.

Every year we hear the same group of woefully ill-informed malcontents claiming that the Democratic party is "disenfranchising" them. What makes them think that non-Democrats have the RIGHT to vote in our primary process?

I'm amused at how many people boastfully claim to be "Independents" or "Unaffiliated" because they hate the Democratic party and everything it stands for and because they think we're "corrupt" or "feeble" (etc etc). Yet when election time comes around and it's time for the Democrats to choose our nominee... they're banging down the doors trying to get in and participate with the party that they've continually smeared and denigrated for the past four years.