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Via Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast, gentle advice from PhysioProf:

Enough Already With The Fucking Superdelegates

Democrats need to sack the fuck up. The Democratic Party is a political party, and it enacts nomination procedures that serve legitimate purposes beyond just simple “majority rules”. This kind of shit has gone on since the beginnings of the party system in this United States. Do we really all need to go immediately for the fainting couch and smelling salts? [...]

The Republican Party over the last 30 years has exhibited vastly better party loyalty than the Democratic Party. It is time for the members of the Democratic Party to exhibit the goddamn loyalty and discipline necessary for a party to take control of the government, like the Republicans have been so good at. Joining a political party means that sometimes you don’t get exactly what the fuck you want, exactly when the fuck you want it, but you accept it like a fucking grown adult because you know that it is for the greater good of the party.

Word.

Jill adds:

PhysioProf makes a good point about living by the rules, and if superdelegates are the rules, well then we have to live with them till we change the way things are done.

Addendum: Let’s say you jump ship, touting the “the will of the Democratic electorate” line as a rationale. What happens if that electorate chooses the candidate you abandoned? If you’re this former Clinton superdelegate, your response is “hammina, hammina, hammina…” This is what happens when you start making stuff up on the fly. This is why we have rules.

Superdelegates (as opposed to delegates) are by definition free to support any candidate for the nomination. There’s nothing in the rules that I can find about apportionment based on the votes of others.

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