2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Super delegates have worked for the Dems in the past. Why all of a sudden the move to get rid [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)That is, essentially, the will of the people. The candidates get to choose who the delegates are that represent them at the convention. Absent SDs, there is no role for those people who no candidate wants to represent them at the convention as a voting delegate. It's the way it should be...have you considered that for some of us shutting those people out is essentially a major benefit of this change?
There are a lot of truly-wrong-headed people in my home-state that have worked very hard and are extremely-knowledgeable about how to run the Democratic party into the ground (They were the same people coincidentally who publicly threatened to "destroy" anybody that had the nerve to primary our wildly-unpopular Democratic governor...he's less popular now. Dann Malloy only won reelection because the GOP nominee (Tom Foley) is every bit the fascist Trump dreams of being. We're going to almost-certainly lose the governorship of CT no matter who the GOP nominates in 2018 because of them.)...a not-minor motivating factor of my support for Sanders was forcibly ending the careers of some of them. I don't want them as delegates to the DNC and I certainly don't want them remaining delegates after I voted against the candidate they endorsed.
Good riddance to anti-Democratic convention practices and good riddance to rubbish party leaders. The real purpose of superdelegates is not anything mentioned thus far...it's to subvert any movement or effort to reform or move the party away from the interests of the establishment. They exist to prevent the electorate from throwing them and the candidates they support out on their asses.
No superdelegates ever again. "No Gods! No Masters!" Our party as an electorate, our party alone!