DNC superdelegates still crying about how they've been wronged

It still amazes me sometimes how arrogant and out-of-touch these people are.
The superdelegates continue to wail and moan today, while their supporters are writing concern troll articles.
It's almost enough to bring a tear to my one good eye.

Curses! Superdelegate is vanquished!

I’ve had my wings clipped, my cape ripped, and my super powers stripped. My irresistible Kung Fu grip on the Democratic Party is being pried loose by well-meaning citizens who may yet endanger the very fountainhead of their freedom.

You see, since time immemorial, we superdelegates have stood as the guardians and protectors of the secret machinations of the Democratic Party, keeping it safe from outsiders and agitators. We were ever watchful, always ready to spring into action should unorthodoxy raise its ugly head.

Translation: outsiders and agitators = voters who don't vote the way they are told.

So, we superdelegates are now what? Merely the mechanism you default to in case of a tie? Great. I’ve fought for the Democratic Party my entire life, and now I’m one notch above a coin toss.

...like a common peasant!

“Now that POC, women, and LGBTQ+ leaders have a significant say in the nomination process suddenly the rules need to be changed, effectively eliminating their participation. Funny how that happens. Lucy moves the football again,” my dear friend and co-author Leah Daughtry tweeted this week. Amen.

Translation: effectively eliminating their participation = only able to vote like everyone else.
Can you guess who wrote this? Donna Brazile

Let's not forget what Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond had to say.

In a letter to DNC Chairman Tom Perez, Richmond (D-La.) said the proposal would “disenfranchise elected officials” who serve as superdelegates.

Richmond needs to look up the definition of "disenfranchise", because he's using it wrong.

“There should be enough room in the process to include the perspective of local party activists and officials, and Members of Congress,” Richmond wrote. “One group should not be harmed at the expense of the other.”

He added, “to add insult to injury, it appears that this is a solution in search of a problem. Unelected delegates have never gone against the will of primary voters in picking Democratic presidential nominees.”

If he thinks there isn't a problem then I suggest he go on a listening tour of voters, not donors.

And then there are the concern trolls, like Esquire.

However, I am sympathetic to the arguments of the Congressional Black Caucus—many, if not most of whom, worked long and hard to become members of Congress (and therefore, superdelegates) only to have their influence at the national conventions minimized in favor of white progressives who are, by comparison, a little wet behind the ears. They waited for decades for their place in line and now they're being told there is no line.

No, not white progressive voters. They're the worst! Even the GOP doesn't want them.
And to think, reducing the power of a couple hundred political insiders for the benefit of tens of millions of white progressive voters! Who in their right minds would do such a thing?
Democrats don't need them.
That's what we learned from the 2016 election. That's why the Democrats are in power at every level of government and the GOP is a distant memory.

Then there is this gem from FiveThirtyEight titled: Are Democrats Courting Chaos In 2020 By Limiting The Power Of Superdelegates?

natesilver: I’m saying that requiring an outright majority on the first ballot — no superdelegates to push a candidate who’s close to a majority over the top — coupled with Democrats’ extremely proportional delegate allocations — is a recipe for chaos

Chaos! Fire from the sky! Dogs and cats sleeping together!
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Note that one of the subcategories of superdelegates is “distinguished party leaders.”

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for a good laugh

After witnessing the 2016 takeover of the Republican Party by insurgent Trumpists, is now a good time to roll back the power of superdelegates in the Democratic nominating process?

It is sheer arrogance to think that a similar occurrence is impossible in the Democratic Party.
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In light of the catastrophe that has befallen the Republican Party, is it wise for Democrats to weaken the guarantee that their convention will always have adults in the room?

Yes, a catastrophe of winning the presidency and both houses of Congress! Who could want that?
better to have political insiders making the choices...like Hillary in 2016.

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broken record here... they should be abolished. They can't die soon enough, they have been a big part of what has destroyed the party. Republicans are smart enough to not have them. And pick the one that can really win. Dems, not so much. Its an inside job, better lose with our insider than win with an outsider. We did not decide to elect them as electors for life. They should hold a party referendum if they think they are so popular. The powerful just figured out how to keep that. Hillary announcing she had 500 delegates when she said she was going to run ought to not be possible. It showed the rigging from the getgo.

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein

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a better trend
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Pricknick's picture

now I’m one notch above a coin toss.

you're lower than a snakes belly.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

gulfgal98's picture

Her tweet demonstrated just how arrogant they are.

Here is my reply under the handle of Caucus99%.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

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@gulfgal98

Looks like Donna wasn't that upset with what happened to Bernie during the primary. It's so damn hard to get corruption out of government.

In case people aren't aware of what the DNC did with the superdelegates they only clipped their wings on the first round of voting IIRC. Which means that they still have too big of a voice when it comes to making the election fair. Nice try democrats, but people are still not going to come back to your fake opposition especially after every one of Trump's legislation got passed with help from your party.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg
There should be no superdelegates, at all, anyway. It all disgusts me.

No more party for me, thanks; I've had my fill.

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@snoopydawg
I think not. IIRC, he was nominated by a hair on a much later ballot.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

@gulfgal98

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@LoneStarMike

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Lily O Lady's picture

tumbrils and sharpening the guillotine blades instead of demanding true representation for the grass roots. They really need to find a new name for the party. The irony burns!

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

Wink's picture

to work up a tear.

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the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.

"place at the table" and what she did with it was to try, by fair means and foul, to shove toxic Shillary down our throats? What was she thinking?

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Mary Bennett

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@Nastarana
That's what. $$$$

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karl pearson's picture

I don't pay much attention to what Nate Silver says. He did a poor job predicting the 2016 election, giving Hillary Clinton a 71.4% chance of winning with 302 electoral votes. Clinton officially received 227 electoral votes. On election day, Silver placed Florida, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in the Clinton column. She lost all of these states.

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@karl pearson has long since passed. For the first couple of years, 538 seemed to do no wrong. Now it’s really no different than anyone else, except it still rides on that initial credit.

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

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@Dr. John Carpenter Silver recently was hired by ABC News as a political consultant. Now he's just one shill of many for TPTB.

Silver and the FiveThirtyEight staff will become a part of the news division, and Silver and other FiveThirtyEight reporters will appear regularly across ABC News
“With political news front and center every day and the 2018 midterms on the horizon, Nate Silver and his brilliant team truly enhance what we can offer our audience,” said James Goldston, president of ABC News, in a statement.

I truly believe one day that progressivism will return. When that occurs, Silver will be homeless. Oh, well.

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Seems she’s not too bothered by 2016 anymore. And the Dems must be over being grumpy with her for saying what everyone already knew. Biz as usual I guess.

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

Or are we to assume it's mislabeled as "DNC members"?

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