He Is a Politician, After All

~ Clarissa

To be clear the Sander’s campaign is now justifying the continued acceptance of campaign donations on the premise that the democratic system, which they have labeled “corrupt” due to the utilization of super delegates, will now salvage THEIR chances for winning by giving them the opportunity to utilize those self same super delegates.

And it’s a good thing because who wants to support a party that nominates unqualified people for high office, thereby trivializing and sullying the office in question?

In a similar vein, a friend asked me where Hillary stood on the toilet issue, and I responded that she stood wherever the most recent focus group indicated it wanted her to stand. And that is unbelievably cool. I come from a place where nobody has cared what the people want – well, ever. I only want politicians who have no opinions, no beliefs, no personality, and who exist to transmit the will of the voters. Which has enormous drawbacks since voters are dumb. But this system is massively better than any alternative.

So good job, Bernie. Things are going exactly as they should.

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3 thoughts on “He Is a Politician, After All”

  1. How very ironic that the Democrats and not the Republicans are now the party likely to have a contested convention.

    (The only reason I’m not adding a smiley face is because the new “improved” WordPress no longer puts icons in the correct place in comments.)

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    1. It is the unpredictability of American politics that makes it so great.

      Of course, this year Spain is winning that contest because half a year after the election, there’s still no president and no government.

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  2. I think a brief overview of how the superdelegate system works is in order

    Delegates

    By the numbers, Sanders has won 1151 of elected delegates so far and Clinton has won 1,428. While that seems like a tight race, just take a look at the super-delegate count: Clinton 502, Sanders 38. That’s 93% to 7%. There are a total of 712 super delegates available with 172 left to go. If this ratio holds, Clinton will have overall 663 super delegates as compared to 49 for Sanders. And there is no reason to believe that this ratio will not hold because super-delegates are free to support any democratic candidate for the nomination that they choose. They will choose Clinton because:

    a) The Clinton political network machine has been in place since the Bill Clinton presidency. The democratic party rewards party members for supporting the establishment candidate. They are unlikely to jeopardize their political career for a radical challenger.

    b) Sanders is a socialist and not a democrat. Saying he’s a “democratic” socialist is like saying he’s a meat-eating vegan. Semantics will not distract politicians from the fact the Sanders is promoting socialist style redistribution of wealth with high confiscatory taxes that has proved to be a failed political system around the world.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/quora/realistically-what-is-ber_b_9772474.html

    While I don’t share the over-the-top evaulation of Bernie, the overall point remains: He has no chance to even make this a contested convention.

    I’m sorry to be the proverbial fly in the soup here, but them are the facts.

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