re: #92 Decatur Deb

Note that even established political parties suffer from this—there are very few processes that allow Democratic or Republican Party leadership to purge nutcase candidates.

Disagree. Case in point off the top of my head: IL-03 (?): the Congressional District where an outright Nazi/Nazi sympathizer “won” the Republican primary - since no one else was on the GOP ballot. The State and national Parties publicly ran away from the asshole with a celerity Usain Bolt would envy. OK, maybe that’s more of an example of the failures of “process”, but at least with the two major Parties there are State- and national-level organizations which (in theory - and most of the time in practice) can at least try to weed out the more-obvious nutbars. Of course, the “process” doesn’t always work in the real world, but then, what does?