2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Help me understand why choosing the nominee who lost the delegate and popular vote is "democracy" [View all]MineralMan
(146,262 posts)That's what I'm taking from it. Never mind that one candidate will have a majority of both pledged delegates and popular votes, as recorded. Never mind the words of those politically-savvy super delegates when they say they will vote for one of the candidates.
Never mind any of that. There are people who just know that they "know better" than other people and are willing to obstruct and disrupt the process so they can demand that their opinion rule.
I'm hopeful that, after the primary elections are over and the delegates allocated and after most of the super delegates tell us their intentions, this insistence that some "know better" than the voters will end and the process will be allowed to continue without disruption. That's what I hope.
Bernie Sanders should lead the way on this, if it's clear that he will not be the nominee. He should speak out clearly and plainly that his supporters should not try to force their will over the will of the voters.