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Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values. One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness” – prospective Democrat Vice President Tim Walz

A brief glance at history will show us that primaries, as a means of choosing candidates for national and state offices, became a serious enterprise in 1960 when Democrat candidate for President John F. Kennedy won his party’s nomination at a Los Angeles convention by leveraging the system of primary elections as a new factor in presidential campaigning.

Following the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, both Democrat and Republican parties initiated reforms to ensure that voters had a more direct role in choosing political nominees. By 1976, “Democrats had selected 73 percent of convention delegates in primaries, while Republicans chose 68 percent,” according to the Daily Blog of the National Constitution Center.

Naturally, national conventions have not disappeared, but they no longer choose party candidates.

The Democrat Party in an open primary chose current President Joe Biden as its 2024 presidential candidate. Biden amassed 14 million votes in the Democrat Party primary election. But after a disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump, party elites decided to push Biden, most unwillingly, off the deck. Biden, ungraciously at first, bowed out in favor of Harris, who had acquired not one primary vote. Then things got a bit foggy.

The manner in which likely Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her preferred Vice Presidential candidate, Tim Walz, will be chosen to head the Democrat ticket in the 2024 elections is, nearly everyone will agree, unorthodox.

The party elites, who claim to respect “democracy,” have successfully turned their upcoming nominating convention into an inauguration ceremony, not that any of the supporters of Harris/Walz will notice.

The party pusher elites – a throwback to the dark days of party bosses – were thunderingly grateful, most of them enthusing with gusto that Biden’s selfless gesture had saved both his party and his own gold-plated legacy.

Former Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi, the Cardinal Richelieu of Democrat politics, recently gushed in an interview with Leslie Stahl that Biden should assume his rightful place on Mount Rushmore beside the figures of Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln. Responsible media savants on the left suppose Pelosi was instrumental in dumping the defective Democrat primary victor. Pelosi claims not to have spoken with Biden following the putsch, but a call is on her “to-do” list. What is the difference, some more acerbic critics are asking, between a putsch and an insurrection?

Stahl could not suppress a sardonic smile at the mention of Mount Rushmore, but the interview no doubt will help sell Pelosi’s new book “The Art of Power,” reminiscent of Trump’s pre-presidential book “The Art of the Deal.” Biden has yet to produce a book. It is the Biden book, along with a preface written by his faithful wife, that everyone wants to read.

The day after Harris announced Walz would be her VP running mate, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont paid Walz the ultimate compliment. Rejecting the notion peddled by Republicans that Walz, like Harris, is a “dangerously liberal extremist,” Lamont pointed out that Walz was not much different than Lamont himself.

“He had a $15 minimum wage. I did that,” Lamont beamed. “He had paid family and medical leave. Well, we did that. He stands up strong for abortion rights. Well, I think we did that. They accuse him of being too liberal. They accuse me of being too moderate. I think he’s gotten it about right,” meaning, of course, that both Harris and Walz are moderate Democrats, like Lamont.

Walz has confused socialism with sociability or neighborliness. That is why he could say without blushing, “Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values. One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.” The recent election in Venezuela, stolen by socialist thug Nicolás Maduro, has given state and national Democrat leaders a perfect opportunity to denounce Stalinist thuggery. None of the all-Democrat members of Connecticut’s U.S., Congressional Delegation have done so publicaly and vehemently, nor have the prospective Democrat President and Vice President – a missed opportunity to strike a blow for democracy.

Opposition researchers are even now combing through the political records of both Harris and Walz. But factual records, given the left-tropism of much of the media, may matter not at all provided, as in Abraham Lincoln’s matchless phrase, most of the people may be fooled most of the time.

This we know for certain: After six decades and more of election reform, all aimed at seizing democracy from the prehensile clutches of shadowy party bosses, the national Democrat Party this election year has reverted to an earlier, more autocratic period when party elites rather than state delegates chose the makeup of party tickets. 

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