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Originally Posted by Shoe
I never said she wasn't. What I'm saying is the DNC trying to appoint her the presidency as opposed to having free and fair primaries cost the democratic party the election, and should cost pretty much every DNC leader and most super delegates their positions. They cannot be trusted to make good decisions going forward. Also we are not lucky to have a candidate like her forced upon us every 4 or 8 years when there are much better options that would beat her if allowed to run.
You are honestly telling me with a straight face that there were only two people in the democratic/independent parties that wanted to run for the democratic nomination for president?
Why would anyone in the DNC run when they know hillary will? She is an obviously a more experienced and better financed candidate than anyone else as soon as she announces. Not everyone is a phenomenon like Obama 2008 who pulled an upset. which btw hillary accepted like a pro and immediately supported him for that historic accomplishment. think about that. Why should they lose their jobs? They put forward the most qualified democrat in decades, and they didn't wait to score headline points by waiting to pledge their vote.
But back to getting more candidates in the primaries. The only guy who tried was someone who felt strongly enough to call himself an independent for 40 years until he figured it's now or never, which by the way is stupid. He was in line for chairman of budget committee. That's about as powerful as an independent is going to get, and he WOULD have made a big difference at that post.
No one cheated bernie. He had a weak moment and pouted too hard, and himself drank the koolaid that a bunch of single-issue millennials are somehow wise beyond their years, having never shown up to vote or run for office anywhere. Sorry, I don't buy that if we nominate a slightly more liberal guy who calls himself a socialist, that young people are suddenly all going to become good progressives. Hillary is inspiring a ton of girls age 10-18. Bernie is inspiring baristas with enviable beards and hippies. I'll take the former.
Biden was never running, you are dreaming.
If you want to abolish superdelegates, have fun with a repeat of 1980 DNC, or 2016 GOP primaries. It's not pretty. That's how you get a bunch of radicals fighting against the progress we already made. It's even worse if you think you NEED a field of 10. That's a recipe for BAD candidates taking up TV time and making democrats look like idiots.
If you want to abolish superdelegates, that means you don't care about the very democrats who have dedicated their entire lives to the cause. Results of the election notwithstanding, I still trust Howard dean and Elizabeth warren and Keith Ellison for that matter. You want to take away their status, that's going to shorten the bench of good leadership and make it a free for all popularity contest. That's a recipe for populist demagogues, not good social policies.