Letters to the Editor
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re: Yellow Dog, Zandru
You bring up a good point. Letting anyone and everyone into your party without review - while a good way to swell your ranks - is also an invitation for monkey-wrenchers, saboteurs, and agents-provocateur - not to mention idiots, morons, dunces, and assholes.
Maybe the Democrats need to do some gatekeeping.
To join the Socialist Party-USA you have to complete an application (which the party reviews and approves or rejects), aver agreement with the party platform, and most importantly, pay annual dues. (And since they're socialists believe "from each according to his means," so students, elderly, and the unemployed pay less than working adults.)
I think that annual dues might be the best way to keep Republicans from registering as Democrats. If they don't draw the line at sacrificing their honesty and integrity by signing false affidavits (as they did in Ohio), maybe they will draw the line at sacrificing their wallets.