"The U.S. system of presidential primaries are contrary to democratic values"

Democracy is a word which we borrow from Ionian Greek. Ionian Greek was the primary dialect spoken in Athens through the 7th to the 4th centuries BCE. In Athens during that time period they developed a governmental style that they called "Government of the Demoi." We often translate this as "Government of the People." Demos does not mean people in Ionian Greek. Attica, the territory and peninsula that Athens controlled was divided into three different geographical political regions. There were those living near the coast, those living in the hills, and those living in Athens. These factions were not necessarily always friendly towards each other, so a compromise was reached by three "great" leaders in Athenian history. They broke down these three geographical regions into thirty sub regions. Ten sub regions to each region. They then grouped a sub region from each region together into a Demos. So that each Demos had one group of men from the hills, one group of men from sea side, and one group of men from the city. From the total population of each Demos, three hundred were selected at random to be the assembly for that Demos that year. The Athenian year broke down in to effectively ten months. Each Demos was put in charge of Attica or Athens for one month out of the year. From the Demos, thirty men were selected at random to basically act as a governing council, and each day from those thirty men one guy was randomly selected to be in charge that day. They performed the entire function by random lot, because they believed so long as it was random it was being influenced and controlled by the Gods. Therefore, everything that was done was in some way what the gods intended to have done. General Assembly, or smaller assemblies, or juries, were all again selected at random. Randomness was the basics of their civic functions. The only people who could be included in this process were citizens. Citizens often had to be native born children of other citizens, women were never included in the process, nor were foreign residents or slaves. It was very unlikely that a foreign resident would ever achieve citizenship, but if they had a good idea they might be able to influence the process. The children of this resident would likewise probably not receive citizenship, unless they were the product between a union of a citizen and a non citizen. This might seem kind of crazy to you, but it worked for them. They would think you would be insane for letting everyone vote. Why would anyone do such a thing? After all, if your pool of citizens were truly equal, selecting leaders at random would be the only righteous method of enforcing your ideal. The only popular vote that the people of Athens, the only true Democracy to have ever existed, ever participated in was voting to ostracize someone. Ostracism, comes from a word referring to a part of a broken pot. The broken pot was where an individual would write down the name of the person that they thought was the most popular individual, and the majority vote then caused the most popular and influential person to be banished from Attica for a period of ten years so that their popularity didn't threaten the democracy. There were, however, rare times where the entire citizenry were allowed to participate in a vote, but it was always for policy and never for leadership. Now we hold popular elections? This is certainly not a democratic value. To hold a national primary to select candidates is also not a democratic value. The original notion of "Democratic Values", had nothing to do with inclusion. The intention of the original democracy was to limit the amount of involvement the typical person plays, and to make it as non-regionally bias as possible. The effect of the National Convention also limits the amount of involvement that the typical person plays, and the votes proportionally based on population combined with the votes controlled by "super-delegates" also limits the amount of regional bias that could be encountered. Where on earth did you get your idea of what a "democratic value" is?