Inside Hillary Clintons Secret Takeover of the DNC (By DONNA BRAZILE November 02, 2017)

[Ken Burch]

399. That isn't the point.

It's not about money, it's about inclusion...inclusion of ALL the voters we needed if we were to win, and inclusion of the ideas that rose to be part of the discussion.

If we're going to be a party where the DNC essentially decides who the nominee is before the primaries and caucuses happen, there's no reason for the primaries and caucuses even to occur.

And if we're going to be that party...what do we do if(and let me make it exceedingly clear that this didn't happen this time, but the potential has been there in other situations)"the presumed" is discredited by some sort of horrible disclosure late in the game? What if, for example, John Edwards had become "the presumed", and then everybody else had essentially been pushed out early, and then the stories about him had hit at the time they did hit(which was right before the convention, and fortunately long after he had withdrawn)? Would we have a "backup presumed" waiting for such an eventuality, and who would designate who that backup would be?

This is precisely why we NEED "small-d democracy"-the only way to be sure we're going where we should be going is to give the rank-and-file, the activists, the base a REAL say in who is chosen. The people who vote for us regularly and the people who do most of the work of electing Democrats have common sense and a good eye for what's needed. We're better off trusting them then we are trusting "the pros".