It was my first primary paying attention as an adult. I turned 18 when Obama had already won in late 2008. The primary process of the Democratic party was shocking to me. The super delegates were just insane to me. I phone banked for Bernie. The entire process is like millions of people pretending that the primary process is not a rigged system. News networks showing massive vote leads for states that hadn’t cast a single vote because of “super delegates”. Over and over just pretending that a candidate had already been chosen. When, well, they had been. We just all were pretending it didn’t.
Then you learn of history of the party. Like what was done to drop Wallace from FDR. You realize that this just how it’s always worked. There is a massive amount of tools used by the political party to pick their preferred candidate in a smoke filled room. They just don’t do that directly. They create all these anti democratic rules and all collectively pretend they are “protecting the party”.
They are protecting the party from winning popular support and being able to win against Trump. That’s all that’s happening. It’s on purpose. They are captured by the same capital interest as the Republicans.
It was my first primary paying attention as an adult. I turned 18 when Obama had already won in late 2008. The primary process of the Democratic party was shocking to me. The super delegates were just insane to me. I phone banked for Bernie. The entire process is like millions of people pretending that the primary process is not a rigged system. News networks showing massive vote leads for states that hadn’t cast a single vote because of “super delegates”. Over and over just pretending that a candidate had already been chosen. When, well, they had been. We just all were pretending it didn’t.
Then you learn of history of the party. Like what was done to drop Wallace from FDR. You realize that this just how it’s always worked. There is a massive amount of tools used by the political party to pick their preferred candidate in a smoke filled room. They just don’t do that directly. They create all these anti democratic rules and all collectively pretend they are “protecting the party”.
They are protecting the party from winning popular support and being able to win against Trump. That’s all that’s happening. It’s on purpose. They are captured by the same capital interest as the Republicans.