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[–] Men13 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

The DNC is a private organization. They can do whatever the fuck they want - if you don't like it just vote for some other party. I mean, legally you can have a political party that just tells you "this is who we're running for president. If you don't like it - vote for someone else".

That's more or less what the DNC does. The problem is - the two party system (or "first past the pole") guarantees you don't have a third option. What we need is something like proportional representation - where you don't vote for individuals (congressmen / president) but rather for parties, and the parties "fill the seats" with an amount of people proportional to the number of votes they got.

That way if, say, 5% of people vote for a small, little known, party for a single little cared about issue - that party will still get ~5 congressmen which is nothing to sneeze at. Right now, if 5% of the population thinks an issue is important - no one cares at all.