IL-03: The right kind of primary challenge

a candidate that won a primary. JMHO, if the winning primrary candidate drops, they should figure out a way to hold another election with fairness to the candidates.

It just seems both disingenuous and underhanded that the voters are basically disenfranchised in this way. If an election can't be held, for one reason or another, then the #2 gets the nod. Again...JMHO.

Chicago politics, particularly Chicago democratic politics, has been crookeder than the proverbial dog's hind leg since time immemorial.
The fix has been "in" since I have been here, nearly thirty years, now.
This type of obviously underhanded, pragmatic nepotism is, though choking to anyone who is not directly involved, is still disgustingly legal.
When considered in a larger context, it is almost a miracle that there is as much integrity in the system as now exists.
Consider:
In any sufficiently large population, four percent of that population is psychopathic.

People who feel that government is a thing we created to handle jobs that were too big, too dirty, too hard, too detailed for us to do ourselves and that government exists to aid the people and make life better, safer or happier and more fulfilling, tend to congregate and take note of their liberal, walk a mile in the other guy's shoes similarities.
Those people often call themselves democrats and the democratic party is coming, albeit painfully, to mean ethics and square dealing. There is a general acknowledgment that the tasks assigned to "government" are those that are too unprofitable to expect private enterprise to do.

I may be a purist but I cannot see anyone who is inclined to try to look at things from the other person's point of view as particularly likely to misuse, abuse, hurt and all the other shameful actions endemic to a point of view that invalidates other people. Psychopaths (to the extent that they are political) and the people who are somewhat demented and just all around mean-the ones who make up the other twenty six of the bottom thirty percent-are not going to feel comfortable here, although they can readily find victims here.

It's no secret-if someone is caught molesting his secretary's minor child, he is no democrat. If it should happen that he/she is wearing a "d" on its sleeve, there's an automatic suspicion that they can't be honest in that arena, either.

Sometimes I even wonder if we can ever actually elect a real democrat to high office, because the cutthroat tactics they have to use to attain that office and the corrupting influences on the way and when they get there changes them so that they often don't much resemble the "themselves" that they started with. They all become republicans to some degree.