Camille Paglia

[anhinga_drafts]

I rediscovered Camille Paglia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia

This time I bumped into her articles on the political season, which just ended:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/11/12/palin/print.html
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/10/08/palin/print.html

Comments

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

And what should that be?

(That is, to the extent that it's not a private business of each party, to be conducted as the particular party sees fit.)

[spamsink]

Currently the final step of the nomination at the party conference is perfunctory, the nomination being effectively done ochlocratically. It should not be so.

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

Well, we disagree :-)

In any case, the society can demand that if a party is sufficiently large, it must go through a regulated democratic process of primary elections, but it certainly cannot demand that a party must refrain from doing so :-)