HRC would have been nominated without the superdelegates...that proves we don't NEED them.

[Ken Burch]

195. I don't oppose the vetting of delegates

And I didn't say "open primaries". I said closed primaries with re-registration available with a time when the primary campaign is underway(as opposed to the anti-democracy months-early cut off in New York, a cut off that serves no good purpose). The registration would get new people involved in the party, and we always need new people.

Our decisions now should be about what helps in the future-not about preventing another Bernie-type figure from running. The way to prevent that would be for the party to embrace a good chunk of the economic ideas associated with that campaign(while keeping ideas people liked better from other campaigns on other issues-which is the way you build unity).

It should always be our objective to make idealists and activists welcome, to be a place where new ideas and transformational aspirations are included and given practical form. We have nothing to lose from that. It's what elected Obama(we lost ground after that because the transformational was checked at the door).

In the real world, most of what elected us in 2008 was the conception of politics I'm talking about. In 2016, most of what caused us to fall short was the abandonment of that conception. Learn from what works in the real world.