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In reply to the discussion: New York Times Reporter Asks Sanders If He’s Sexist For Continuing To Run Against Hillary [View all]highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)up the lesser or smaller principle over and over again. For instance, what Bernie says or does about superdelegates. It's not really a huge or meaningful thing, because the rules will win out in the end. Even Hillary was criticized for her dealings with superdelegates in 2008, and the fact that she had superdelegates before anyone else was running has been roundly criticized now. and I think that does have good foundation, and a higher principle at stake. which is, what is the best way to select the best candidate? certainly not by giving one candidate a 400 delegate lead from the start. certainly not to count those votes before even the DNC says they are to be counted, which is at the convention.
try to win the logic game through higher principles, that would be my suggestion. that, at least, is the way I try to do and to promoote. obviously don't always succeed. higher principles yield higher results.
for all his faults, i believe bernie generally stays truer to higher principles than the Clintons pretty much every single time.