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2016 Postmortem

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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
Sun Jun 5, 2016, 03:02 AM Jun 2016

People who support the existence of superdelegates are hypocrites when they complain about [View all]

other people trying to "steal" their superdelegates.

We should just eliminate superdelegates altogether for the next election cycle, in 2020.

Superdelegates are not bound by how their states voted, or by the overall vote, or by the pledged delegates.

That's very undemocratic. The system is very undemocratic. It is designed to prevent established politicians from losing to grass roots activist movements. The superdelegate system is awful.

But if you like that system, if you defend it, and then you turn around and whine about people trying to play by the rules, and accuse people of trying to "steal" superdelegates, then you're just a huge hypocrite. It's just more proof that we are not welcome and not wanted inside the Democratic Party.

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