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I don't understand what the name of the Democrat political party has to do with their process for selecting a candidate. If the Republican party has the word R
by komali2 8y ago
I don't understand what the name of the Democrat political party has to do with their process for selecting a candidate.
If the Republican party has the word Republic in it, why don't they use representative electors?
See, doesn't really make sense.
- dijit 8y agoOk, then don't make the pretence of democracy then? Just select your candidate if that's what you're going to do anyway.
- komali2 8y agoWhen did the Democrat party make "a pretense of democracy?"
- gspetr 8y agoThen what exactly was the superdelegate system?
- komali2 8y agoExactly as you have described by naming it - a superdelegate system.
- gspetr 8y agoDo you believe that the unelected bureaucrats, not accountable to voters, holding 15% of the voting power is just something that is in line with the way one would imagine an ideal democracy in a primary?
- komali2 8y agoCertainly not a perfect one, no, but that is exactly how the process works, so I don't see any pretense. I voted for Bernie Sanders but pop over to the Wikipedia page and you'll see that he lost the popular vote by 3 million and change in an election 30 million people participated in. Not the narrowest of margins. In a perfect democracy, he'd have also lost. The superdelegate system was irrelevant in this case.