DEMOCRACY DEMOCRACY DEMOCRACY

[boston bean]

Doesn't mean the person with less votes wins.

Doesn't mean the person with less pledged delegates wins.

Doesn't mean that the will of those voters who elected those pledged delegates should have their will overturned.

It does NOT mean the loser is the winner.

I'm sorry, but all this conspiracy about something being stolen, rigged, taken from you is actually being attempted... You know trying to undo an entire primary season by having elected and former party officials appoint you as the nominee........

Call it what it is. It's an attempt to subvert democracy and steal an election from someone else who has rightfully won.

Now, can we please just move on from this absolute silliness and rally around our official Democratic nominee ~ Hillary Clinton?

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Time to move on and kick Trump's Rump.

[boston bean]

2. The orange fascist is going to get his ass kicked by a woman who can wear an orange pantsuit!

[grasswire]

3. In a word, no.

It's not over 'til it's over.

But thanks to all you Hillaryans for lighting a fire that has forged a coalition of progressives and independents that will overwhelm the Third Way from now on. We outnumber you in a tsunami of energized, informed, motivated voters.

Sayonara.

[morningfog]

4. Super delegates are the antithesis of democracy.

[tonyt53]

6. But Bernie knew of their role before he jumped in. Sounds pretty selfish of him now

[morningfog]

7. The nomination process is not and does not claim to be pure democracy.

It just isn't. Should it be? Yes! But it is not.

[Stuckinthebush]

9. Ok....ignore them

So, whoever has 50% plus 1 pledged delegates wins, right?

[morningfog]

10. If we change rules midstream, yes.

I hope they are done away with by 2020.

[Stuckinthebush]

11. I'm ok with that

As long as they insist that whoever runs as a Dem has been a party member or supporter of the party for a substantial period of time.

I bet the GOP is looking at instituting something similar!

[anotherproletariat]

14. Either way, it's still Hillary...she just needs 30% of the vote today and next week.

She'll have more pledged delegates and more total delegates. Not to mention more popular vote. Seems pretty clear.

[Stuckinthebush]

15. That's the point

Any way you slice it, it comes up Clinton.

[aikoaiko]

5. After Bernie concedes or the convention it will be time to move on for me

But the primary system, by design, is not a true democracy. That is one of the main reasons that the interpretation of wrong-doing is so easy.

Don't get me wrong, even as a Bernie supporter I don't want Bernie to win by flipping delegates. It shouldn't be possible, but our party designed the rules of the primary to allow this to happen.

Bernie is doing us a big favor by helping to reveal the warts of our system so that we can improve it.

[JimDandy]

8. Clinton lost the vote of a lot of progressives in the GE. Time will tell how many.

I am so glad that Bernie is my candidate. Hillary Clinton ran a disgustingly anti-democratic campaign, start to, I'll bet, the finish on July 28. Next to a diamond like him Clinton looks like a piece of gravel.

[sadoldgirl]

12. Regarding the OP's title: WHERE IS IT??? I see only Oligarchy!

[libdem4life]

13. My decision will be made one day before the GE.

For decades I've been told, as a Liberal Democrat, that I must hold my nose "the clothespin vote" and vote for the lesser of two evils...usually starting at the Primary.

Then the GE...one being Republican and one being Democratic. Seldom was there a separation of more than a few political millemeters between them, in my Liberal opinion. It is called The Center...and rightly or leftly so.

This election season I beheld and vigorously backed a candidate f or the first time...since my first vote for McGovern...that shared my principles.

That is all.