A party of the superdelegates, by the superdelegates and for the superdelegates. You gotta love the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party. They are the self-professed champions for the little people – the people who don’t have a voice – when in fact the elitists snobs who run the show have nothing but contempt for those who vote for them; hence, the superdelegates.
How did these Bolsheviks come up with this
scheme? The Christian Science Monitor
reported the following:
What’s the origin of the less-than-democratic superdelegate practice?
Roughly speaking, it’s a reaction against the perceived chaos of the party’s
open nomination process from 1972 through 1980.
Post-1968 reforms had stripped party leaders of their old power to
greatly influence the nomination. So in 1972, Democratic voters chose liberal
Sen. George McGovern. Democratic elites weren’t happy, foreseeing – correctly –
that he’d get crushed.
Nor were they pleased by the rise of outsider Jimmy Carter. Many thought
a stronger candidate could have defeated Ronald Reagan in 1980, or at least
headed off the divisive primary challenge of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Thanks superdelegates for saving us from ourselves!
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