[lbo-talk] Anyone want to comment on this quote?

[Jack Stewart]

Quote from 1927
"Here in the last generation, a development has taken place which finds 
an analogy nowhere else.  American parties have ceased to be voluntary 
associations like trade unions or the good government clubs or the 
churches.  They have lost the right freely to determine how candidates 
shall be nominated and platforms framed, even who shall belong to the 
party and who shall lead it.  The state legislatures have regulated 
their structure and functions in great detail."
Page 174  American Parties and Elections, pub 1927 by Edward Sait

Jack