WHY OUR POLITICAL PARTIES HAVE A PRIMARY PROBLEM

Until women finally got the vote one hundred years ago, the political parties were essentially men’s clubs. Joining a political party was a demonstration of manhood. One of the first things male immigrants would do having attained citizenship, would be to join one of the parties. Even if they were working a physically punishing menial job that paid virtually nothing (say mining copper in the Upper Peninsula), joining meant to them that they belonged. Party leaders chose candidates for office but those chosen knew that they would not serve long. At all levels, elected office holders were constantly rotated because of the Two Term Rule. The Two Term Rule wasn’t in the Constitution but it might well have been. What it meant was that except for a few in the leadership, no elected official at any level ran for more than two terms (The party gave men the office and the party could take it away.). It also meant that the leadership could groom really able young men for ever higher office. That grooming process meant that no one held higher office without having experience in a number of lower ones. <a href="https://therishelreport.medium.com/why-our-political-parties-have-a-primary-problem-1a0485ea1a13">Click Here</a>