• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    No one’s said anything about silencing democracy besides you.

    Even the article says:

    State law requires those who nominate electors for the Green Party convention to be state officers, legislature members and judges, among others. Candidates for state congress can also participate. The complaint notes that, because the party does not have anyone who qualifies as a nominator, the Green Party cannot legally name a slate of electors.

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                    3 months ago

                    If the law says candidate cannot appear, then candidate should not appear. We have the right to rule ourselves, to make our own decisions on how our system will work. We are not required to have or keep any system or method.

                    If we chose to change our law to be ruled by monarchy, then that is exactly what we should get. Then there’d be no candidates.

                    Democracy does not supercede the law. To the contrary, we only have democracy because the law says so. We only have protection of life, of property, because the law says so. 200 years ago black people were property, because the law said so. If we do not like a law, it is our responsibility to change it, while we still possess that ability.